The first time I learned about the work of Ernest Borgnine was during my Freshman year of college. My professor of Art and Language of Television was obsessed with the movie Marty. So I, like a studious, dedicated and attentive student of the arts…ignored his recommendation entirely. (College kids are assholes, what can I say?)…
The latest stop on my Epic Film Quest brought me to 1960, with Billy Wilder’s five-award-winning Dramedy The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray. I am pleased to report that The Winz is giving this moviefilm two very enthusiastic thumbs up! Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, an office worker for a NYC…
On my last Epic Film Quest review, I said I really, desperately needed a home-run film to come up soon. Well fuck me sideways, Sydney Pollack’s 1985 Romance Drama Out of Africa was not what I was looking for. It took a lot out of me, kids. A lot. But it did have some cool…
The latest movie on my quest to see every Best Picture winner in the history of forever was The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. The film was the winner from 1971. It was directed by William Friedkin. I wasn’t a fan. I’m having another one of those “I didn’t really think this…
The latest stop on my quest to see every single Best Picture winner ever: An American in Paris. So what does Gene Kelly have in common with Veganism and the Paleo Diet? Absolutely nothing at all! The Winz combined forces with Zoe over at SexyTofu for a Food and Films excursion, Part Dos! If you’ll…
While wasting my life away on the couch on what looked from my window to be a beautiful Sunday afternoon, I wished I drank less whiskey the night before. Though, the day’s hangover meant I had nothing but time to take 1953’s Best Picture winner, From Here to Eternity, out for a test drive while…
Must. Watch. Every. Bestpicture. Winner. Ever. So I had pretty lofty ambitions with this one, but then my laziness and extreme nonchalance took over, and here I am! Check it out: In order to avoid writing about this year’s winner (which is entirely trendy and nauseating because everrrryooooneee has written about it), I was going…
Alternative titles for John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy: Kind of Bi-Sexual Cowboy Naked Cowboy Perverted Cowboy New York, I Really Love You And don’t forget its porn name: Southern Male Sluts It’s true: I frequently fear this quest of mine. I mention in almost every blog how inevitably I’m going to view films that, in my…
Movies, marathons, quests…yada yada yada… Next up on the never-ending film trek was 1986’s Platoon. This classic was mindblowingly awesome. Super-mega-ultra amazing. What changed this time around? Despite my extreme admiration for this Oliver Stone film, I just didn’t want to write about it. ARRRGG! Even as I sit here, I feel myself stewing. There’s…
This week, Zoe from Sexy Tofu once again joined the ever-pressing, noble (it’s not) Epic Film Quest! Huzzahhh! It’s always great to con friends on joining me for a flick, and this time around we doubled it up as a Vegan-Cooking-Dinner-Fest-Bonanza! Fun was had, indeed. I was going to write this post and label it…