My Favorite Films of 2024
Ten flicks that brightened up an otherwise pretty dreary 2024 — from HK action throwbacks to swashbuckling muskateers.
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New Long Beach Restaurant Lets Diners Breathe It In
Recently-opened Long Beach eatery fOGG wants to change the entire premise of meals and the way we consume food.
YouTube Clip of the Month: Magic Johnson – Greatest Peaks
The fine folks at “Thinking Basketball” take a deep dive into the game of one of my all-time favorite players: Magic Johnson.
My Favorite Films of 2022
From Indian adventures and “vampire westerns” to American jackasses, these are the ten films that I enjoyed the most during 2022…
My Memorable Movie Moments, Pt. II: #26-50
Only two years after posting the first 25 of these, here are 25 more movie moments forever burned into my brain.
My Favorite Films of 2021
Another year, another 250 movies! Here are the ten I enjoyed the most from that insane number of movies I watched last year…
My Month(s) in Movies: November & December
A quick run-through of what I watched the last couple months, dashed off while I get my Faves of 2021 list properly vetted…
More Months of Flicks: On to October!
It’s once again taken forever to write about, but I saw a whole lot of flicks over the past couple of months. Let’s start with October!
Months of Movies: How I Spent My Sick Days
Months of being laid up sick in bed somehow translated into months of not posting anything! So here’s a bunch of words about a bunch of movies I saw…
New Gershwin Revival “Hoagie & Bess” Updates a Controversial Classic
The new production, produced by Subway, sidesteps accusations of racial stereotyping in the original by recasting Porgy as a sentient sandwich.