As a fan of films, I have never bought into the celebrity culture. I have no idea who is married to whom or what the latest scandal is. It’s only significant events (like Mel Gibson tirades) that manage to pierce [...]

I do not know anyone who is not a member of some fandom.  Some of them might cringe and inform me that it’s not REALLY a fandom: fandoms are for those geeks into comic books, or underground horror films, or [...]

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.” – Mae West I’ve said it before: media is an arbiter and reflector of our society.  What we see on screens, big and small, affects the way we perceive the [...]

I think we all have those moments when we became film fans; an instant in our childhoods when a single film altered the way we perceived the world around us and perhaps would lead us into scholarship, or fandom, or [...]

It was a history-making week. Sure, there was some little news article about the Catholic Church, but the big film news was Veronica Mars. For those who may have been sleeping under a rock that doesn’t have a twitter feed, [...]

*Disclaimer: This is a semi-rewrite of an earlier article on my blog.  This one’s better. * I don’t know anyone who does not have a soft spot for some real badass villains. Who’s the best part of Robin Hood: Prince [...]

The night that I went to see Les Miserables is a night that will live in infamy.  Not because of Russell Crowe’s total lack of emotion, or the fact that the movie went on, and on, and on, and ON.  [...]

So, it’s been quite the week for sexism in the film industry. Segments of the Internet went into an uproar earlier this week following Seth MacFarlane’s hosting gig at the Oscars on Sunday.  We got a song about boob’s some [...]

I am not, by and large, an angry person.  I’m actually a very happy person.  You should see how I smile when the first bars of Psycho play.  So when I seem angry here, I’m usually just annoyed, or snarky, [...]

Well, it’s Oscar weekend and half of the Man, I Love Films crew is in Vegas celebrating with other members of the Large Association of Movie Blogs.  I know Kai and Dylan left the keys to the site around here [...]