Articles by: Mike

by / on August 18, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

EVERYTHING I KNOW, I LEARNED FROM MOVIES PT. 2

A young man was once asked about his future.  He replied thusly. “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or [...]

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by / on August 4, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEETLEJUICE?

Yes, we live in a world where people get outraged by chicken sandwiches, sexually revitalized by a trite novel and proudly patriotic behind a genetic athletic freak.  But, sadly we also live in a world where people in their mid-20′s [...]

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by / on July 21, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

THE KNIGHT IS OVER

I’ve written at great length in the past about my feelings about Batman, The Dark Knight, comic books movies and being an adult fanboy in general.  I’ve talked so much about how The Dark Knight Rises would be the end [...]

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by / on July 7, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

SOME HOOD MOVIES

I think of hood movies as I think of noir movies.  Film noir is not really a genre of film, in that nobody set out to make noir films.  They were a selection of films that, when watched by the [...]

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by / on June 30, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

ANOTHER YEAR, LESS MOVIES

This past Thursday, I turned 31.  Older than most, not as old as some, to be sure, but I definitely felt older this year. I watched the episode of The Larry Sanders Show which was Larry’s birthday.  Larry was as [...]

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by / on June 23, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

NOT THE BEST JUDD APATOW MOVIES

Note- This article is reprinted from my old blog, August 2009.  But, I recently turned my Netflix back on and was watching a ton of The Larry Sanders Show.  I kept seeing Judd Apatow’s name in the credits, caught a [...]

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by / on June 16, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

PROMETHEUS IS JUST ALRIGHT WITH ME

SPOILERS. There I said it. By now, Internet reader, you’ve read a metric butt load about Prometheus.  On this site alone, there have been reviews and essays about the film and I’m sure at least five of your social media [...]

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by / on June 9, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

THE INGENIOUS LOGIC OF HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

It is my deeply held spiritual belief that the film known simply as Hot Tub Time Machine has been poorly ignored in it’s own era.  The genius that flows through the script and is personified in the excellent performances will [...]

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by / on June 2, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

WHAT’S WITH BRUCE WILLIS?

Completely independent of Kai’s list earlier in the week, I had actually been thinking of Bruce Willis for about a week. Not in the usually admiring, possibly homoerotic light I used to,  but through the hot, harsh light of a [...]

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by / on May 26, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials

YOU, ME & QT

I’m not the world’s biggest Quentin Tarantino fan, even though I have met him before.  Like every other cinephile, film buff or whatever we’re calling ourselves this week on this site, I celebrate the man’s entire catalogue.  I can name my [...]

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