1990s Movies Posts

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 …

*Note: this week's blog post is a little different.  I'm posting in a paper I wrote in graduate school (from November of 2000!) on the play Much Ado About Nothing, but be assured--it's still germane to the film as well :)   The first thi…

T.S. Eliot is my favorite poet.  It’s not only that I love his command of imagery and the subjects that he tends toward[1], but his rhythms and choice of language are often perfect to me.  He has lines that, apropos of nothing, live …

Remakes have been around for as long as humans have walked the Earth, and I like to imagine that even prior to the arrival of humankind, amoebas and other life passed around the same stories as well.  Storytelling is in our DNA, whether you are…

As a young teen, the movie Defending Your Life provided my curious mind with an incredibly imaginative idea as to what lay ahead in the afterlife, couched in the familiar form of satirical courtroom drama reminiscent of my favorite TV sitcom at the …