My wife and I rented this flick the other night, and it’s not good nor is it bad. It’s just kind of average, hence the two stars. I couldn’t really tell if it wanted to be one of those lighthearted romantic European romps like Cinema Paradiso or a screwball kind of comedy the likes of […]
I saw my first Jim Jarmusch film, Stranger Than Paradise, my 2nd junior year at Baylor in 1993. I was a film major at the time, and the stark cinematography and editing (the camera never moves in a scene and each scene is played from beginning to end with no cuts) was cool. I had […]
It was 1814, and the United States and Great Britain had been at war for two years. The city of Baltimore had been preparing for an eventual attack, but sitting in the way of the British was Major George Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry [1. Named after James McHenry, a Scotch-Irish immigrant and surgeon-soldier who […]
Look at the picture to the right. What is it? Is it the Millennium Falcon? Or is it Han Solo’s pal Chewbacca? Is it both? And what have they done to Chewie’s crotch? What hath Hasbro wrought? What you’re looking at there is a Star Wars Transformer, the latest in a loooooooong line of Kenner/Hasbro […]
When I got to Ken Bethea’s house, I didn’t know where I was. My son had gotten invited to a birthday party for a little girl in his Mother’s Day Out program and all I saw was her first name, sans last. The house, located near ours, is probably 40 years old and is homey, […]
