The return of nap movies

After starting his life as a very poor sleeper, my son (not pictured) has become a model of consistency in the past year or so. In fact, he...

Cut off at the knees

Note: I wrote this post, as well as the post for tomorrow, before I heard the news about the unimaginably horrific shooting in Connecticut. ...

The 10:30 rule

I haven't been sleeping well lately. The last few nights have been good, but for ten days before that, I was waking up at weird hours of...

Acceptable circumstances for viewing a comedy

You may remember in this post I talked about some new rules I had for watching comedies. I was no longer going to watch them by myself --...

First DVD of the year

As you probably know, I am perpetually involved with ranking my favorite movies of the current calendar year. As soon as one year finishes, ...

Where have all the bad films gone?

I have this little ritual I perform at the end of each month, which helps me "close out" the month. I look back at the new films I...

When movies imprinted themselves

Before this past weekend, I'd seen Swingers only once all the way through. According to my records, I'd seen The Silence of the Lam...

Don't make me go back!

Tomorrow night, my wife and I are taking advantage of having unpaid babysitters (my dad and his wife) and going out for dinner and a movie. ...

Going outside the marriage for ... movies

I sometimes feel like I'm cheating on my wife. With the movies. Oh, it's not the rivalry for my affection you might think I'd ...

Could TV be radio?

Over the time I've been writing my blog, I've thought of a number of posts that deal with the similarities and differences between ...

The greatness scale

Rango was quite good. But that's as far as I'm willing to go. It has a dynamite first half full of exciting set pieces, and it lose...

A classic movie night with a (new) classic movie

You know you really love a movie when you spend all week looking forward to watching it -- for the fourth time. Saturday night was my four...

Outwit, outplay, OUTLAST

Sometimes I envy my friends whose wives go to bed at 9:30 every night. Mine does not. In fact, she is a genuine night owl. Even when she do...