Monthly Archives: March 2013
Passover Guest Blog for Beer And A Movie
Happy Passover/Lent/Easter! My good friend Gabe over at the blog Beer And A Movie allowed me to write a guest blog for him. If you’re not already following him, Gabe is a film-and-beer-expert who writes witty reviews of movies and … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Beer, Beer and a Movie, Easter, Lent, Passover, The Prince Of Egypt, The Ten Commandments
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Jackie Brown
More than any other director, Quentin Tarantino uses his films as love-letters to the genres he worships. Reservoir Dogs is a gangster film; Kill Bill is a pastiche of spaghetti westerns and Chinese and Japanese martial arts movies; and Jackie … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Blaxploitation, Django Unchained, Jackie Brown, Pam Grier, Quentin Tarantino, Shaft, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Western Genre
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Forbidden Games
You can’t predict how people will grieve. After World War II, a psychic scar was left on the world that produced some of the most tragic films, as each country and culture tried to deal with the aftermath. For Americans, … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Forbidden Games, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Postwar Film, Rene Clement
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Wizard Of Oz
I was almost giddy when The Film Experience chose The Wizard of Oz for the first “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” Challenge. “The answer is obvious!” I thought. “Everyone knows what the most Historic And Aesthetically Significant shot of this film … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Musicals
Tagged Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Kodachrome, Singin In The Rain, Technicolor, The Red Shoes, The Wizard Of Oz
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We Recycle Movies 