Brain Changing Movies v2
Last week, the Supreme Being was kind enough to share some thoughts on the films which remapped his neurons. Since we heard his confession, I’ve been trying to ensnare the […]
Category Archives: I Like to Watch
In Praise of Bad Movies
Bad movies get a bad rap. It’s said they’re incompetent, meaningless, embarassing, written in a day by a lone monkey on a single typewriter, directed by escaped mental patients, acted […]
Brain Changing Movies
Movies ate my brain! They’ve eaten yours, too. They are insidious and powerful, they crawl into your head through your eyes and ears, spin their nests out of sparking ganglia […]
Origin Stories
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience […]
The Color of A Scene
In the brilliant ’61 melodrama The Hustler, Paul Newman plays Fast Eddie Felson, basically a punk kid looking to make it big by playing and beating Minnesota Fats at straight […]
I Like to Watch (Part the First)
(UPDATED) I have been thinking about what makes films worth watching. There are, indubitably, a number of factors to consider: artistic merit originality entertainment value technical proficiency philosophical depth historical significance giant […]