Year of the Month: Persia on Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa taught me about texture. I’d watched plenty of black-and-white movies before and…
“The Farmers Have Won, We Have Lost”: A Review Of Seven Samurai
It’s a testament to the quality of the 1954 motion picture Seven Samurai that its…
SEVEN SAMURAI in Seven Characters
Seven Reasons Why Seven Samurai Is Amazing Kambei: Action is a means to an end.…
The Magnificent Seven Is The First Modern-Day MGM Remake That’s Actually Good
MGM, in their post-bankruptcy state, has been going through their library of titles and remaking…
THE SAMURAI TRILOGY: How To Develop A Character Over Multiple Movies
What makes a good trilogy? A continuous story? Escalating quality? Lightsabers? All of those things? …
The Ur-Version
In 1981, season 10 episode 2 of M*A*S*H featured an already-thirty-year-old Joe Pantoliano as a…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on THE DIRTY DOZEN
“So that’s it, huh? We’re some kinda dirty dozen?” says absolutely no one in The…
Kurosawa the Modern Master
When people discuss Akira Kurosawa, the first movie to come up is Seven Samurai. Maybe…
Some Early Thoughts On DMing
So, I’ve been DMing a Dungeons & Dragons campaign for a few months now, and…
The Moments of 2020
More so than other years, this doesn’t feel like a complete list. The virus kept…