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I’m not sure if this is everyone’s experience or just my comparative brain at work, but there seem to be occasions where the media I’m consuming comes together in a weirdly synergistic way.  I’ll be hyper-focused on a sp…

If I was asked to choose the single, most important moment in my life when cinema truly affected me for the first time, I would, without hesitation, say Return of the Jedi on the big screen at a pokey little cinema called The Metro in Ashton-Under-L…

Of all Jackie Chan’s films, why would I choose to discuss 1997’s Mr. Nice Guy, one of his mid-period and largely forgotten starrers? Why would I skip past the films that made audiences sit up and pay attention to his unique, comedy …

ARE THE SHADES OF PEMBERLEY TO BE THUS POLLUTED?! Joe Wright's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE came out towards the beginning of my freshman year of high school. I approached it with a healthy dose of skepticism (although, perhaps, slightly inflated for a 14-y…

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”—Aristotle “I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.”—Ricky Bobby Y’all, I love this movie. It played a huge role in Mac&…

I first saw Wet Hot American Summer several summers ago when I was a Cabin Leader for a stay away camp in New Hampshire. Movie Night was a tradition at camp. First, the whole camp would watch a movie together. Then, after we put the kids to bed, the…

As far back as I can remember, Martin Scorsese has been my favourite director since I first caught Raging Bull on TV in my early teens. It came at a time when I was discovering that cinema was an art-form, and Raging Bull, with its grainy black and …

There are so many reasons that Legally Blonde is one of my all-time favorite comfort films. For starters, it’s hilarious. Elle Woods introducing Bruiser Woods (her tiny dog) and herself as “Gemini vegetarians” gets me every single …

When it comes to film nemeses, some obvious contenders come to mind. Batman and the Joker. John McClane and Hans Gruber. Sarah Connor and the T-800 (although to be fair, they do team up in Terminator 2). But there’s one unsuspecting pairing I&…

The first time I watched Moonstruck, I was a cynical 19-year-old going through what was then the worst year of my life – in fact, the worst year I could conceive of anyone having, barring a famine or world war. Having just watched the film for…