Recently tagged “most underappreciated film of 2012” by the Los Angeles Times, Bernie (2012) is based on the true story of Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), who befriended and eventually murdered an elderly woman, Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), in Carthage, Texas. We’ve picked it as one of our Movies You May Have Missed […]
I wrote this post on the literary source of the movie John Carter before it came out. In retrospect, it has more meaning now since many moviegoers complained that John Carter was just a re-hash of other sci-fi movies - especially Avatar. In a way, it’s the other […]
Many great movies came out in 2012 – The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Argo, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, to list some of our favorites. But there were many excellent films that slipped by rather quietly. We decided that we needed another chance to see some of the […]
Originally posted on Alchemist's Blend:
Edar Allan Poe is one of my favorite writers. His use of first-person narration and lurid Gothic imagery gives him a unique voice. There’s nothing like reading “The Raven” on a cold, gray afternoon. Whenever I read Poe, the images in my…
Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
Back in May of last year I had the privilege to participate in the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III. My contribution was a post titled, “The Hitchcock Signature” for the grand event hosted by the Self Styled Siren, Ferdy on…
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