Having trouble motivating the wife to conquer more of the movie list lately. I’m trying to sparse out the “really good” movies that I know are good so that there is always a flick on the horizon that I know will pull her back in. But I’m starting to think I need to go on […]
Since I’m in Seattle, I thought it proper that I honor a classic movie of my teen years, Singles. This is a great clip featuring the fellas from Pearl Jam being the band members for Matt Dylan’s character. As a special bonus, Jeff Ament is rocking an Aerosmith hat. […]
Sometimes you just run into cool things on the web. Many of you already know that Rear Window is one of my all-time favorite movies. And this guy decided to do a cool trick. He used After Effects (and fancy Adobe video product) and merged all the clips of the neighbors’ scenes and made one […]
When I was in the 7th grade, a friend of mine’s older brother introduced us to the hilarity of Amazon Women on the Moon. It’s a weird movie that didn’t have enough story, so apparently they threw in some sketches now and then to pad it out. No matter, the best part of the movie […]
The Graduate (1967): For a woman who loves Simon & Garfunkel as much as the wife does, it was stunning to hear her tell me she hadn’t seen this movie all the way through. “yeah, there is the great music, the guy gets hit on by the mom and it’s kinda creepy and depressing” was […]
This one is going to be rather simple. I love board games as a kid. Actually, screw that, I still love board games. Friends and I still get together now and then to play Trivial Pursuit or Scattergories or some kind of game that pairs well with drinking. My two favorite board games are Clue […]
Duck Soup (1933): This is up there with All About Eve as an early contender for Most Pleasant Surprise movie in the challenge list. Not sure how this one escaped me, but I didn’t know it was a Marx Brothers film, so just seeing the name Duck Soup on the list was a little eye-rolling. […]
Part of the wife and I’s movie challenge involves a pretty good number of westerns, something we aren’t super big on. Sure, we like Unforgiven and the like, but we’re going to have to bang through some desert chatter and John Ford cinematography if we expect to get through the list. Stagecoach (1939): Our first […]
For whatever reason, the cable movie lords decided to put Boogie Nights back in their rotation, which meant the wife and I watched it about seven times over the course of the weekend. And no scene quite captures the majesty of the film as when Dirk and Reed snort probably a oil drum’s worth of […]
After a strong start, we haven’t kept up a torrid pace to knocking movies off the AFI 100 list. But we did manage to take two off. It’s a Wonderful Life (1942): I could not believe it when the wife told me she hadn’t seen this movie from start to finish. We’ve probably watched A […]