Content Update and New Shallow & Pedantic Podcast

I mentioned earlier that I was going to to be redesigning the site. The idea is for it to be … Continue reading Content Update and New Shallow & Pedantic Podcast

Christopher Nolan is Making a Movie About Robert Oppenheimer, and Variety Wants Me to Care

See how far you can get into their marketing gibberish before you give up. There’s so many things wrong with … Continue reading Christopher Nolan is Making a Movie About Robert Oppenheimer, and Variety Wants Me to Care

I’ve written on the Indiana Jones series before, explaining the problem I had with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A … Continue reading An Encomium of Pankot – In Defense of Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom

The Boys at RLM Recently did one of their “list” re:View episodes, about the films of John Carpenter. Let the … Continue reading Aesthetics vs. Prophecy: John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A.

As promised, a new episode of friendly rambling. I plan what I talk about with these, some notes I want … Continue reading Content Blues, The Podcast – Episode 3: Poems, Prose and Princes

Time for Low-Rent Clint Eastwood to Ride Again. The only question is Why, and there’s only one answer. No one … Continue reading Oh Good, a New Indiana Jones Movie

Not really. I think I had that in mind when I conceived the episode, but when it came time to … Continue reading Shallow & Pedantic 13: Let us Now Abuse Kevin Smith

I may have made fun of it a while back, but honestly, I don’t hate the concept. I might scope … Continue reading Maybe I’ll see Nomadland, Maybe I Won’t

Carl Schmidt was a German jurist and political philosopher of the Weimar and Nazi eras. True to the time, his … Continue reading Doing Things For a Reason: Miller’s Crossing and the Friend/Enemy Dynamic

I don’t care how dead the horse; I’m gonna beat it more. Observe the nominees for Best Picture: The Father: … Continue reading Let Us Now Tap-Dance on the Grave of the Oscars