Monsters University is Pixar’s fourteenth feature film and a prequel to 2001’s Monsters, Inc. The film follows the collegiate exploits of stars James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, who we learn weren’t always such great friends. The film is a welcomed return to form after the last two Pixar outings – Brave and Cars 2, […]
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Independence Day Hollywood Style
Happy Independence Day! (And a belated Happy Canada Deh to my friends up north). Gonna keep it light on the blog this month because July is a time for getting out in the summer sun, not reading the internet all day. But I’ll still drop some fun posts each week like today’s gem. I’ve been […]
Can the Man of Steel be Saved?
Spoilers for Man of Steel! Man of Steel is certainly this year’s Prometheus. No other film this summer has been so hotly anticipated, and then just as hotly debated once it was released. The new Man of Steel film goes out of its way to compare Superman to Jesus. (In case you missed the parallels, […]
Time for Classic Cinephiles with Melissa Tagg and yours truly. This week we’re chatting about Singin’ In The Rain which stars Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Jean Hagen. I casually kicked things off by declaring SITR the greatest movie musical ever made. “Oh yeah?” said Melissa and others. Time to figure this thing out. […]
WARNING: Spoilers will be all over this. Don’t read if you don’t want to know major spoilage! Check out Part 1 of my review: The 5 Best Things About Man of Steel To hear me discuss Man of Steel, check out my StoryMen podcast! ~*~*~ Superman is a rare character in my life. I would always be […]
WARNING: Spoilers will be all over this. Don’t read if you don’t want to know major spoilage! To hear me discuss Man of Steel, check out my StoryMen podcast! I started writing my review for Man of Steel the morning after catching the first midnight showing available. I wrote and rewrote. I edited, revised, and mostly […]

To hear me discuss Man of Steel, check out my StoryMen podcast! I grew up in Kansas, General. I’m about as American as it gets. — Superman Unless you’re living on Themyscira, you probably heard that a new Superman film, Man of Steel was released over the weekend. Given the box office numbers, you probably saw […]
Is This The Funniest Movie Ever?
Time for Classic Movie Gush with Melissa Tagg and yours truly. This week we’re chatting about Some Like It Hot which stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and the amazing Jack Lemmon. The American Film Institute considers this movie, directed by Billy Wilder, to be the greatest comedy of all-time. I disagree but did only recently […]
Now You See Me
Now You See Me is the star-studded new film about a team of magicians who use their skills to perform Robin Hood-like capers. The Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco) – as they call themselves – are assaulted on all fronts: Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) tries to arrest them while […]
What Do You Think of Old Movies?
Here’s the pitch: A funny girl from Iowa named Melissa who just wants her hair to stop frizzing out on humid days meets this guy named Clay from Pennsylvania who probably likes peanut butter and hockey a little too much… Wait, that’s a terrible pitch. Melissa Tagg is a friend and fellow author. Her debut […]