This list became so much fun to do and there was so many excellent suggestions from readers and friends that I couldn’t limit the list entirely to ten, so I said forget about it, and made it fifteen.  Great fights [...]

Halloween may have come and gone but in the immortal words of Depeche Mode: I just can’t get enough! So, we’re talking Horror films one more time.  Any of you who read this site regularly know that Zombie films are my [...]

There’s no surprise I have a thing for the zombies and the apocalypse, and an affection for Halloween and the return of “The Walking Dead” I decided to make a list of my favorite post-apocalyptic movies. 10.THE STAND As far [...]

There is a special place in my heart for haunted house movies.  Ghosts and ghouls haunting dark passages in old Victorian mansions; things that go bump in the night, skeletal trees reaching through windows, ancient Indian burial grounds, black cats, [...]

Last week it was all about guns, but this week we’re going to focus on weapons that wouldn’t normally be a weapon in a film.  They don’t have to exude a kill moment, just torture, survival, or whatever are acceptable [...]

What makes art, as an entity, so fascinating to study is that there are as many different opinions on it as there are people on the planet.  Everyone’s taste and acceptability varies in such enormous ways that it’s always interesting [...]

This isn’t a topic that goes without a strong point of view usually, and even in writing and developing this list, I found my own observations to be quite different that I had imagined.  Years ago, young, naive, and hopeful, [...]

I’m Thaddeus, aka Half A Film Student, and I do weekly Indie Spotlight Reviews here. When I pitched my first list for Man, I Love Films, I decided I’d choose something related to what I cover on this site. And [...]

Take THAT Sight & Sound! Alfred Hitchcock’s films have been a long passion of mine, so much so that I spent an awful lot of time at film school studying them.  Since Sight & Sound saw fit to declare Vertigo [...]

Having excited my ire not so long ago, Criterion has gone a long way to redeeming themselves by announcing the release of Rosemary’s Baby on Halloween this year.  Now if they’d just got on Polanski’s entire catalogue, I’d be more [...]