I saw Jerry Haynes, aka for local Dal­las kids in the 1970’s, Mr. Pep­per­mint, in the park­ing lot of the Albertson’s talk­ing to an older man. At first I thought, “Hey, it’s Mr. Pep­per­mint.” Sec­ondly, I thought, “Wait a minute — he must live around here.” Mr. Pep­per­mint was the host of Pep­per­mint Place, a […]

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 […]