“Brian Skutle’s passion is for storytelling, be it through music, film, or creative writing, with the story dictating the medium that best brings it to life. In his music, though, it may not be a specific story that inspires him, but a feeling. A sense of longing; of mystery; of tension; of serenity; of sensuality; […]
This year, the ninth for my “mostly” annual October horror movie marathon (I skipped 2007 on account of being in the hospital half of the month), has been an interesting one for a lot of reasons. We took in an unexpected, but welcome, houseguest for most of the month, which required some adaptation, but brought […]
I told myself I wasn’t going to wait so long on these blogs this year. If you recall, last year it took several months for me to finish up my blogs about my Dragon*Con experience. The reasons for such a delay included a bit of laziness, but more often than not, an emotionally-wrought few months […]
Since I first went in 2009, Atlanta’s Dragon*Con fantasy convention has become a staple of my life. It’s the closest thing to a yearly holiday I have, and it’s, in a way, more important a moment for celebration than my birthday. That sounds terrible, but in reality, it’s very true. The 2012 edition turned out […]
I don’t know what it was about July and August that made me so, for lack of a better word, lazy about going to the movies. I worked a lot of day shifts at the theatre, so going to a movie after work should have been a no-brainer. However, after a relatively strong start in […]
It’s been said by people much smarter (and more knowledgeable) than I am (like Roger Ebert and Francois Truffaut) that the experience of watching a film is one that can be not just entertaining but deeply profound, truly cathartic, and singularly moving. Of course, it helps with me that I’ve been practically obsessed with cinema […]
Every decade since 1952, the British magazine, Sight & Sound, has conducted an “official” poll of film critics, historians, and, for the past twenty years, filmmakers from around the world in order to compile what many see as a “definitive” list of the ten greatest films of all-time. No, Roger Ebert is not wrong when […]
As I was doing theatre walks at my full-time job recently, I saw posters such as “Magic Mike,” “The Expendables 2,” and thought about the two movies I had seen earlier that day (“Rock of Ages” and “That’s My Boy”), and began to ask myself the question above. Over the years, I’ve found that my […]
In November 2006, I received an email from a filmmaker looking for a review of their film. It was the first such request I had gotten, so I was pretty excited, and enthusiastically replied that I would be delighted. A short time later in the month, I received the screener for a film called “Royal […]
So in 2010, I decided to structure my blog about the first four months differently than in previous years. Realizing I still hadn’t really posted the distinctions between why one film gets a certain grade over another, I decided to use my annual blog for January-April to do so. Unfortunately, I’ve missed a great deal […]
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