Lessons Learned from The Crow

During their off hours, criminals engage in spirited bullet-eating contests. Heroin addicts think birds are funny. Each engagement ring is a life… a life THEY helped destroy. I’m not referring to the scene in the pawn shop. Just venting… If they’d buried Eric Draven upside down, he’d be digging halfway to China about now. Criminal […]

ZaSu Pitts

Actually posted as a page here but I’d like to get it out to my wordpress friends as a blog: Click link. ZaSu Pitts

Attack of the Giant Monsters in Movies from the Fifties (Part One: Insects)

[This was a preface to a book I never finished on Godzilla] As far as giant monster movies go, if you were to ask what there was a lot of in the fifties, I would say, “That”. As far as poorly-constructed topic sentences go, I would say that I began this paragraph with one. Is […]

Lessons Learned from Total Recall

Given a breathable atmosphere, two people standing outside on Mars won’t care that it is a hundred degrees below zero. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nose is ungodly elastic. In the not too distant future, we will simultaneously have robots driving taxi cabs and people still doing the mining and working jack-hammers. Does it really only take a […]

Lessons Learned from the Movie Desperado

Never run drugs for men who have house payments. The bartender sometimes never gets killed. If you ask a bar full of armed men about a man who calls himself “Bucho”, prepare for an emotional response. Sometimes a man is most dangerous when his ankle is shattered and he is lying in the dirt. Pretty […]