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Ever look around your living room and think, “I have too many movies”? No? Well, I do, and that’s what this blog series is all about. $5 Bin Film School is my attempt to work through the bargain bin/Half Price Books discount DVDs and Blus that I have accrued over the years. Some posts will be composed […]
Read More $5 Bin Film School: Spooky Movie Szn #1 — ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’Ever look around your living room and think, “I have too many movies”? No? Well, I do, and that’s what this blog series is all about. $5 Bin Film School is my attempt to work through the bargain bin/Half Price Books discount DVDs and Blus that I have accrued over the years. Some posts will be composed […]
Read More $5 Bin Film School: David FincherHi, my name is Jake and I have a problem. I have entirely too many unwatched films just laying around my apartment. Those of you who know me well also know this problem well, and have told me many times to cull the collection down. That’s what this blog series is all about. $5 Bin […]
Read More $5 Bin Film School: The ‘Alien’ franchiseHi, my name is Jake and I have a problem. I have entirely too many unwatched films just laying around my apartment. Those of you who know me well also know this problem well, and have told me many times to cull the collection down. That’s what this blog series is all about. $5 Bin […]
Read More $5 Bin Film School: Stanley KubrickThis post is the start of a new project for me. I’m trying to watch through the nearly 200 unwatched movies I have stacked around my apartment. I know, I know. I could save a ton of space by just keeping the digital download cards from those films, and physical media has been dying for […]
Read More $5 Bin Film School: All the films I should have seen, but never haveAgainst my better judgment, I ignored the terrible reviews and went to see Cameron Crowe’s latest film, “Aloha,” this weekend. I used to live in Hawai’i and wanted to see some of the scenery again. I was also intrigued that the film would show more of the military side of living on O’ahu— it’s set almost […]
Read More ‘Aloha’ is a beautiful disasterThis list isn’t definitive, but it’s an alphabetical ranking of my favorite films I saw this year. I haven’t seen some films that will probably be awards-show fodder, like “Wild,” “Selma,” “Unbroken,” “Foxcatcher,” “Theory of Everything,” “Imitation Game” and “American Sniper.” I probably won’t get to see those until the new year, so here’s my […]
Read More My Top 10 Films of 2014As I tweeted a few days ago, I’m still not sure what to feel about “Fury,” David Ayer’s new entry into the WWII movie canon. It’s violent, but in such a way that it makes the viewer abhor that violence, much like “Wolf of Wall Street” made the audience abhor the trappings of wealth. It’s also very […]
Read More Movie Review: ‘Fury’Watching “The Judge” is a bit like watching the Super Bowl when your favorite team isn’t playing- you don’t really care about the outcome, you just want to sit back and enjoy the entertainment as the two best teams in the league go head-to-head. At least, that was the feeling I got while watching Robert […]
Read More Movie Review: ‘The Judge’This movie review was originally commissioned by and written for USA TODAY COLLEGE in the winter of 2014. It was never published there, so it lives on, in full, un-copyedited glory, here. Enjoy. Photo found here. Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell’s beloved news anchor, returned to the big screen for “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” in December, but […]
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