Here are the first 15 favorite stories I picked, in chronological order. They’re not numbered or ranked; it was hard enough just choosing them without also trying to weigh them against one another. It just so happens that the list ends at season 14. The…
For the last October movie of the week, I let myself bend the rules and watch a movie I’ve already seen. This was partly a birthday present to myself, and partly a chance to spend some long-distance quality time with my girlfriend. We kept a…
For the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, I’ve decided to attempt something that normally I find excruciatingly difficult: picking favorites. I’ve chosen 35 stories from the classic series and 15 from the new series that I personally think most fondly of. They’re the stories I’ve…
Last Sunday’s movie was supposed to be Lair of the White Worm, but since Netflix didn’t have that, I took my girlfriend’s sage advice and watched Tales from the Hood instead. I’m glad I did. Not because it was a great movie, but because half…
I may have to change these to “movies of the week,” since Sundays are shaping up to be busier than expected. I got this one out of the way early just in case. Unfortunately, I didn’t like it quite as much as I’d hoped to….
It wasn’t anywhere near dark when I watched this, but mid-afternoon, sandwiched between a sad (if temporary) farewell to the woman I love and a bleak, apocalyptic evening of the board game Mountains of Madness. The former was more moving than Near Dark, and the…
This is the second Woody Allen movie I’ve ever seen. I was much more impressed by this than I was by Sleeper. The shots were so unusual and well-composed — characters speaking out of frame, or seamlessly taking focus at exactly the right time —…
I missed Sunday Movie Night last week, so I did a double feature tonight: back to the black and white era for two classic monster movies in which the monsters are people. The Invisible Man This is of course the Claude Rains version from the…
I really do plan to watch some serious important movies in this series, but since I have a concert ticket for tonight, it’s the Sunday Lunchtime Movie instead. So I wanted to go with something light. I’ve seen surprisingly few Mel Brooks movies. I opted…
Having decided it’s well past time I started watching a few grown-up movies I’d never gotten around to seeing, as opposed to spending all my screen time on the same British science fiction shows, I inaugurate tonight my Sunday Night Movie. The first selection: The…