Movie Mondays; Mike S.

  • Movie Mondays: Western Film Series at the University Branch!

    ~posted by Mike Saddle up your steed and ride over to the University Branch Monday nights for our spring program showcasing some of the greatest Western films ever made. This six shooter series covers nearly every important era of the Western, from the genre definers starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich to the auteurist appropriations… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: A Trip Down Anarchy Lane

    ~posted by Mike We old punk rockers are legion. We used to be in bands, we used to go to shows, and we used to believe in something, even if that something was “nothing” with a backwards stenciled N. Now we’re just tired all the time. What’s the least embarrassing way for us to relive… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: Century Cinema

    ~posted by Mike 1915 was a banner year for cinema. Douglas Fairbanks and W.C. Fields made their film debuts. Future stars like Ingrid Bergman and Orson Welles were born. Cinema continued to capture the imagination of millions, with the medium making huge artistic and technical strides in what was still its infancy. In 1915, going… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: Seeing Red

    Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento is most famous for his over-the-top tale of witchcraft, Suspiria, but his previous film, 1975’s Deep Red is the better picture. David Hemmings stars as a pianist trying to track down a serial killer whose increasingly grisly crimes give the film its title. It’s a boilerplate premise turned masterful work… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: The Year in Rock – 1984

    Thirty years ago a little record label called SST released more amazing albums in a row than any music company before or since. 1984 brought Husker Du’s double LP Zen Arcade, the Meat Puppets’ masterpiece Meat Puppets II, Black Flag’s influential My War, and perhaps the greatest album in the history of recorded music, The… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: Sex Destructive

    Sex can be constructive and creative. It can be profoundly important or frivolously fleeting. It can be beautiful, clumsy, silly, and surprising. It is none of these things in the following films. These features depict sex as nothing but a destructive act. The sex might not be fun but the movies sure are. Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: Halloweird

    I’m not a huge fan of scary movies for one very legitimate reason. They scare me. That can be difficult this time of year as Halloween draws ever closer and seemingly everyone I know is watching the creepiest, ickiest films imaginable. That’s not to say that I’m completely unable to get into the undead spirit… Continue reading

  • Movie Mondays: DVD DNA: Female Trouble Edition

    One of the joys of whiling away one’s meaningless life watching movies comes from making connections between a certain film and pictures that came out years, even decades before it. In this new, occasional series we will track down the disparate elements that have influenced great films. Today’s subject: John Waters’ 1974 trash classic, Female… Continue reading