Cinema 21 Update

I have a dog, Dodger, who's actually sitting next to me as I type this. And when I was a kid, I had a dog named Pharaoh, then a pup n...

When a major Hollywood studio remakes something that people consider a classic , it's supposed to end up some soul-less cash grab that ...

This is my 500th post. I have reviewed every single movie I have completed in the last five years in the exact order I've watched the...

Shockingly , I don't have very many friends. So when I tell people that I go to the movies alone , they always look at me with this ...

You know that feeling when you get to the end of a chapter, Hell, sometimes even just the end of a page , and you have no idea what you...

My dad reads a lot of news. I do not. He seeks stories from outside of the mainstream media. I do not. So whenever we talk, which isn...

This past Thanksgiving, there was a lot of talk about convergence . Seems that once every eleventy-billion years the stars align for someth...

Long before we were married, my wife was just another pretty girl that I obsessed over. I met her at a party for a mutual friend, and then ...

I was definitely late to the party the first time. Very late . I wasn't even sure what the Hell the big deal was, honestly. A series ...

As the economy has sputtered and bottomed out, it's an utter grind being a working stiff. In my own line of work, education, higher-ups...

Look, I get it. I just took a new job seventy miles  away from my house. I'm not even sure what I'll be doing (or when I'll b...

I'm pretty sure there's something very wrong with me, but f--k it, Catwoman is sexy. I don't care if it's Anne Hathaway or ...

He drives me absolutely crazy at times. He's a total scatterbrain. He looks at you, but he's not really paying attention to what yo...

As far as I know, my parents weren't undercover agents or international drug smugglers. They were simply two people that wanted their k...

Many years ago, in this mythical place known as high school , I developed an unflinching love of photography. Not only the freedom that cam...

Imagine you're trying to decide on a movie to watch and you come across a movie called Explosions . On the back of the box it says, ...

Working with children has afforded me the dubious gaji of seeing my fair share of disgusting things. Countless incidents of vomiting, both...

You can't really understand what someone else is going through until you've walked a mile in their shoes.  I'm sure yo...

Fifteen years from now, hopefully my son will be spending the summer at home after a successful freshman year of college. Maybe he'll e...

I am not a great man. Shit, on a good day I'd settle for being called either great or man , let alone both. I get rattled at work. By...