With Hallmark movies you know what you’re gonna get. Some bad acting, puzzling writing at times and some very predictable arcs. Exmas, for the most part has none of those things.

I love dark, ugly superhero movies but it’s hard not to appreciate some good pastiche. What makes Hawkeye a joy to watch is that it is fully aware that its tone is all over the place, it’s plots are sporadic and occasionally unserious and its characters are extremely zany. It just doesn’t care.

The other day I received a letter via Pony Express…….

Magnificent Warriors is a 1987 Chinese film that is among the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s like top 50-75, don’t freak out.

Sometimes life lets you down easy, other times it punches you in the face. After a while, you’ve been punched so much and so often the world looks like a boxing match and that boxing match becomes a chess game.

Night Moves is a 70s private detective movie (which is kind of a 70s genre) and it’s actually quite good and it’s really quite fun but I tell you what pal- it’s no picnic. The 70s were fun, sure, we all accepted that myth.

There are many for whom New Orleans, Louisiana is still a magical place, full of crawfish etouffee, jazz music and muggings.