A Mind on Fire

Unforgiven was released in August of 1992. It would go on to win four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. In 2004 it was added to The National Film Registry for perman…

It’s safe to say there’s never been a movie quite like To Sleep So As To Dream. It’s a silent movie with sound. It’s a movie within a movie. It’s a magical tour with fantastical el…

For most of the movie going public martial arts* movies begin with Bruce Lee and end with either Jackie Chan or Jet Li. For others, martial arts is something that occurs in a movie…

Every genre has a defining movie or the movie that brought the genre back from the dead. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and its special effects defined science fiction for…

Certain movies and genres have aspects about them that separate them from the rest of the pack. Italian and giallo horror movies, one is not necessarily the other, seem to separate…

Red Angel opens with the sounds of war- explosions, gun fire, men screaming- accompanied by still images bombs going off, marching toops, and human skulls. These are Chinese bombs …

(Spoiler free as possible) Sleep. Some of us get enough of it while others don’t. For those with insomnia it’s a precious commodity. With sleep one hopes dreams will come. Scientis…

Believe it or not movies were released in 2021. A lot of them never made it to your local theater because independent features have rarely played well at the big chain theater cent…

(SOME SPOILERS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED) A cottage industry of philosophy books sprouted up after The Matrix was originally released in 1999. A bookstore could have had an entire secti…

What do we mean when we say “visionary?” Who is a visionary? The Webster Dictionary defines the word as: “having or marked by foresight and imagination” or “one having unusual fore…