Ghost Dog and Rashomon
Recently, I was checking off my list of reviewed Jim Jarmusch movies on Letterboxd and had a little trouble finding a streaming option...
Inception and Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by the subconscious. In the 1940’s books about Freud were on the coffee tables everywhere in Los Angeles....
Twelve Angry Men and Rope
This month we look at two movies that keep the viewer captive in a room to discuss murder and justice mostly in real time. Rope was...
A Serious Man and Vertigo
There's going to be a little change to the Movie of the Month this year. Now instead of being about one movie or a long watch list of...
December: Ocean's Eleven
This month I got into the universe that Steven Soderbergh created as a remake of the 1960 movie Ocean's 11. The 1960 movie centered...
November: Big Hero 6
I figured it would be nice to get light with this month’s movie of the month and there aren’t all that many movies as light, colorful and...
October: Young Frankenstein
In 1974 Mel Brooks released two great movies in the same year, Blazing Saddles and this month's movie, Young Frankenstein. It's pretty...
September: Faces Places
"What is it all about?" "The power of imagination." This is the question posed to Agnes Varda by a railway worker about the street artist...
August: Sunshine
Danny Boyle’s 2007 film Sunshine seemed to kick off a new sub-genre of reality based space movies. It wasn’t the most successful movie of...
July: Dr. Strangelove
The punchline to Dr. Strangelove (1964) is that everyone gets blown to hell at the end, and I don’t think they ever made it over to the...
