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. […]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is master-storyteller Neil Gaiman’s new book for adults. It’s short (less than 200 pages) and straightforward: a man just past middle aged returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He wanders his old streets and awakens memories long forgotten. I’m not going to talk about […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
If you want to discuss Star Trek Into Darkness, the newest film from J. J. Abrams, we’re going to have to talk about two different films. The first we can do without spoilers: There will always be those who seek to do us harm. But in seeking to keep ourselves safe, we risk awakening the […]