Movies
Vegas. vs. Las Vegas
Recently, needing to take some time to relax and decompress, I have had the opportunity to binge-watch the original Vegas television series. If you grew up in the seventies, you don’t need me to tell you how insanely popular Vegas was during its short but memorable three-season run between (1978 to 1981). Robert Urich was at the height of his powers before his iconic role in Spenser for Hire in the 1980s and after the short-lived original Swat Series. As private eye Dan Tanna, Urich was the epitome of coolness and inspiration to young men, especially when it came to
The People You’re Paying To Be in Shorts: Dorktown on the 2011-2012 Charlotte Bobcats
Dorktown’s strengths are on full display here yet again: surprisingly little footage of actual people on the court, a superb soundtrack, and a completely honest appreciation of the men in the titular shorts whose job(s) it is to go out and get their asses handed to them.
The Stars Can’t Hurt You: Fighting the Future in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Even if you’re pretty sure you know going in – it is difficult, after all, to not have been spoiled at least a little bit on a movie that is three-quarters of a century old – the unspooling of the film does a good job of keeping you on your toes,
I Don’t Get Nightmares: Scaring Yourself with Talk to Me (2023)
Talk to Me may be the most credible supernatural teen horror movie ever made, simply by dint of the way that the kids in the film turn the medium-istic hand into a party game, heedless of the larger questions it raises, or the possible consequences of their actions.
Entering the Kingdom of the Supernatural: The Mexico Macabre Collection from Indicator
Mexican horror films from the ’60s feel like someone attempting to remake the classic horror films of the ‘30s and ‘40s from memory. Which, given that we were still decades ahead of the advent of home video, was probably almost literally the case.
