As I write this, it’s closing in on one in the morning. I don’t really want to go to bed yet because I’ve just watched a rather unsettling movie. I’m not afraid of having nightmares or anything…I just need to give my brain a chance to stay curled up in a fetal position a little…
Two weeks ago I left a pair of movie tickets at home. On New Year’s weekend, I was meeting up with Bob from Eternal Sunshine to watch LAWRENCE OF ARABIA at The Lightbox. After 30 minutes on the subway and walking through downtown, the fact that I didn’t have the tickets to the movie I…
A few of you might already know about this, but with two days left to go in this year, I wanted to share a goal that I set for myself with everybody who reads this blog. In the final days of 2009, I tossed around ideas of what I wanted for The Dark of The…
I just realized that it was ten Christmases ago that I got my first dvd player. So there’s a small touch of coincidence that this Christmas, a blu-ray player with a tag addressed to yours truly made its way under our tree! (Thanks honey). Upon connecting this shiny new toy to our system, I was…
I’ve had a long yet sporadic conversation with a fellow movie geek about rating movies – specifically, in giving something a top score (10 out of 10, 5 out of 5, or where The Matinee is concerned, 4 out of 4). While I believe that most other scores can’t be taken at a glance, a…
In Your Eyes, Who Is Still “Money”?
Last week, a friend of mine with a particular fondness for films said “so long”. It’s one of these things where I know “so long” will only be for a while…but how much of a while is what I don’t know. Could be months, could be years. What’s interesting is that I’ve been through this…
