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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3
And now the third epic installment of my Buffy journals. It’s for the fans. Heavy spoilers. Blah blah blah eatin the puddin. Enjoy. Season 3 “There’s a certain dramatic irony to all of this. A...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4
What follows is part of a series of viewing journals I’m working on for each season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The latest entry covers season 4. It’s not a review; it’s an analysis, so there will be...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 5
I know it’s been a while since my last Buffy journal, but rest assured that I still plan on finishing the series. I just, you know, occasionally have to do things besides watching and writing about...
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The Best Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Part 1
Episodes 26-30 So I realize I’ve been writing a lot about Buffy recently. Too much, a rational person might say. Well… I don’t really have a good response to that. Just that I’m not sure I’ve ever...
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The Dark Knight Rises: Review
One thing I have to say about Christopher Nolan: he always tries. Not that anybody is contesting that point. As of last night he’s had eight films released in theaters, and every one of them —...
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The Best Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Part 2
Episodes 21-25 For 26-30 click “here” 25. Consequences Season 3, Episode 15 Writer: Marti Noxon Director: Michael Gershman Consequences isn’t a great standalone episode of Buffy, but it is an...
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The Best Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Part 3
Episodes 16-20 See Also Part 2: 21-25 Part 1: 26-30 20. Spiral Season 5, Episode 20 Writer: Steven S. DeKnight Director: James A. Conter For most of season five, Buffy teased a big “swords and sorcery”...
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Review: Transcendental Youth – The Mountain Goats
In the two years since I first discovered the Mountain Goats, my intense enthusiasm for John Darnielle’s fine-drawn poetic storytelling and surgically precise musical accompaniment has felt like a...
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Top Albums of 2012: Part 1 of 2
I’ve never been a music critic but I listen to music and I like having an opinion. So when I heard tell that music had people who write reviews and make lists just like movies do, I immediately decided...
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Top Albums of 2012: Part 2 of 2
And now the second part of my best albums of 2012. For part one (6-10) click here. 5. Grizzly Bear – Shields Shields reminds me a lot of my favorite album from last year, the Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness...
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Most Anticipated Things of 2013
2013 brings with it untold riches 2013 is now underway, and although there’s more than enough to be apprehensive about, I want to start things off on a positive note. Here’s a list I’ve compiled of the...
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Winter Reading List
As many of you know, I’ve gone back to school to study English because my last choice of a life pursuit was too impractical (if you’re wondering if I’m aware, I am). However, to anyone concerned with...
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February Reading List
February is a great month for reading because it is a horrible month for everything else. The following novels are by no means the summation of reading I’ve done over the last month. I’ve been in...
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One Year, 48 Hours
As most of you already know, I just finished my third 48 Hour Film Project two weekends ago. I’m not sure if fun is the right word for this event. It’s more like a hearty, occasionally brutal shot of...
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2010’s – The Decade’s Best Films So Far…
It’s December 2014 and I’m sitting at my computer trying to justify yet another top 10 list. I wrote it compulsively. I needed a distraction from screenwriting that was just too abstract at the moment....
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Review — Song of the Sea
There’s a tendency in modern animation to sneak in various subliminal elements “for the parents.” Maybe it’s implied scatological humor or maybe the motivations of the bad guy are buried in innuendo....
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Review—Double Indemnity (at Minnesota Connected)
My review of DOUBLE INDEMNITY over at Minnesota Connected Released in 1944 and frequently listed among the greatest films of all time, Double Indemnity has carved a legacy far larger than any single...
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Review—A Most Violent Year (at Minnesota Connected)
Reposted from Minnesota Connected Few films about the recession were as unflinchingly grim as JC Chandor’s debut feature Margin Call. Time and time again, well-meaning, sympathetic characters (and...
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Review—Gertrude Stein and a Companion at the Jungle (Minnesota Connected)
Photo Courtesy of Michal Daniel The true power of Win Wells’ script is the way it reframes a familiar story about some of the most important events and famous people of the twentieth century as an...
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Review–The Babadook (at Minnesota Connected)
Horror is such a unique weapon in film’s arsenal. It’s easy to justify romance, drama, action, or comedy. You can always say, “I need more love or excitement or laughter in my life.” How many times...
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