Show Time: What Makes a Romcom Good?

Show Time: What Makes a Romcom Good?

by | Jun 29, 2019

I’m a little ashamed to admit that I’ve been watching a lot of romcoms recently. I say ‘ashamed’ mostly because the genre as a whole has a reputation of dumbing-down human relations into “desperate woman and loser man stumble into...
Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 5) – The Wind Rises

Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 5) – The Wind Rises

by | Jun 24, 2019

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps best known for his work with Studio Ghibli, has gained popularity around the world for his creative and imaginative animated feature films. While they were originally released in Japanese, all of them have been dubbed into...
The Shamley Silhouette – Chapter One

The Shamley Silhouette – Chapter One

by | Jun 21, 2019

        Chapter 1: Fanciful Notions     “As a matter of fact, that’s how I knew that Cary Grant had died. Every channel on TV was showing that shot of Cary running away from the plane. It’s strange, isn’t it, that such a...
The Shamley Silhouette – Chapter One

The Shamley Silhouette

by | Jun 21, 2019

  Introduction: Repetition   There is no point in doing this… it has already been done a million times over. That was my initial thought when I landed upon the notion of covering Alfred Hitchcock as my next analysis for the Reel Nerds website. It was a...
Show Time: My Top 10 “Twilight Zone” Episodes

Show Time: My Top 10 “Twilight Zone” Episodes

by | Jun 18, 2019

As I’ve said before on the podcast, the original Rod Serling Twilight Zone is my all-time favorite TV show. I love how each episode is a self-contained story. I love all the sci-fi elements that are integrated into it — space travel, human evolution and...