Dedicated to movie nerdom, nostalgia, and escape. In the late 90s, I worked at Blockbuster Video where they let me take home two free movies a day. I caught up on the classics and reviewed theatrical releases for Denver 'burbs newspapers and magazines. Today, while raising two young, beautiful daughters with my amazing wife, I look forward to anything rated R and not Bluey. Comments and dialogue encouraged!
“But it’s good. It’s my life.” -Becky (Juliette Lewis) from What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) It’s good. It’s my list. It was an absolute joy reflecting on 50 formative movie favorites of mine, recalling who I saw them with, and realizing how much the 1980s complete me (fourteen titles from that whacky decade made my... Continue Reading →
In my lifetime as a Gen Xer, there are movies before Pulp Fiction, and there are movies after Pulp Fiction. I've always considered 1994 the year my passion for movie analysis began, and it’s all because of Pulp Fiction. There is no doubt Quentin Tarantino belongs to the Greatest American Film Directors Club, and Scorsese,... Continue Reading →
Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. ‘70s pop, Iggy pop, and Britpop are what the lust for life sounds like while heroin is playing in the background. There is an impalpable sense of contradistinction in... Continue Reading →
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