Showing posts with label The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Show all posts

Sunday, January 26, 2025

First Kisses: 2003, Day Four

This set of films goes from September 26 through Halloween, 2003.

In the midst of all this was my first real date with a girl. I met her through my summer theatre camp, though we didn't do a show together, she was friends with friends of mine. Cute girl, dated two of my friends before me, we saw Runaway Jury.


I regretted it when she started making out with me. Good kisser, cute girl, don't get me wrong, but I was enjoying the movie and missed an important plot point, a blank that wouldn't be filled until, well, this year. That’s when I realized I was not a movie date guy, not for a first date, anyway, and definitely not for a first kiss. My best friend later told me the mistake was going to one I was interested in but I don’t think that matters. I love the movies, I want not just to watch them, but to tell you what I liked, what I hated, why something was good or bad! I think I would’ve felt the same frustration if we had seen, I don’t know, The Room. Cinema was already My Girl.

We split about a month later, amicably, and I never saw her again. Twenty years later, I saw Runaway Jury without interruption.

Thirteen films here. My first time watches were The Human Stain, In the Cut, Shattered Glass, and Under the Tuscan Sun. The only ones I saw multiple times before this were Mystic River, Kill Bill: Volume 1, and Intolerable Cruelty.

Friday, October 31, 2014

13 Flicks for Halloween


Happy Halloween! 

I haven't ranked my favorite fright flicks in years -- and I won't be tonight, either! Instead, here are thirteen movies on my mind this Halloween, all after the jump. Feel free to take these as recommendations, and enjoy...

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Out with the Old, In with the Older

As you can see on the right, the poll is closed and the people have spoken. But before I officially unveil what you can already see, one last mention of 1974: my Top Ten of the Year.


Sunday, June 5, 2011

1974 Hollmann Awards: The Majors

The awards continue and conclude.


Hollmann Awards 1974: The Technicals

At long last...22 years of life...37 years of cinematic history....Ladies and gentlemen, the 1974 Hollmann Awards. No, there's no list of nominees to get acquainted with; it's all here, winners and runners-up, in one fowl swoop. First up, the technicals. Catch them after the jump:

UPDATE: Realized I hit publish before I made my final changes in Art Direction. The winner and runner-up have been switched so that the proper film is given its due.