This is a list of posts published in the My Favorite Things category.
In honor of Homer and his clan’s long awaited arrival to the big screen, I decided to offer up a special edition of the ‘My Favorite Things’ series.
The format for this edition is going to be a little different than prior installments. Rather than grace y’all with the details of why a particular episode hit [...]
With summer movie season officially kicked off… wait, who am I kidding. With Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End all released prior to Memorial Day, we may already be onto the Autumn Oscar season by the time I finish scribing this list.
Oh well, once upon a time the [...]
Ed’s Note - This piece was originally posted in July 2006. When I caught a Comment on my Cousin Jason’s Biggerboat site stating my Aunt Sharon’s intention to reveal a list of film’s that made my Uncle Ron (a grown man if there ever was one) cry, I decided to repost this here to provide her with a forum [...]
Continue reading »While most of My Favorite Things lists have focused on various genres in film, that’s not solely where my interests lie. Nope, not this cosmopolitan gent. I have a wide range of interests spanning the world over.
Case in point – today’s list. A real stretch from the norm.
Before I dive into my list, I wanted [...]
Last summer when I started my recurring series, ‘My Favorite Things’, I documented a whole series of categories and stored them away for a rainy day. So far we’ve covered my favorite Scary Movies, Individual Scenes, Film Endings, Comic Book Flicks and of course, the five flicks that made this grown man cry. I thought it [...]
Continue reading »(*Editor’s Note - That creepy cool pumpkin shot in the header is not from a film. It is courtesy of my main man Sean O’Brien who really has the eye. Also - as today is Halloween - I have granted you two treats. Scroll down to my second post which features a pictorial of [...]
Continue reading »Anyone who knows me, knows I carry a deep, dark secret. No matter how old I get, I can’t shake the gaming jones. I was introduced to video games in the mid-70’s through a neighbor’s Pong machine, used my Machiavellian skills of coercion on neighborhood kids to invite me to sleep over so I could [...]
Continue reading »For this edition, I decided to focus on my favorite closing segments to a handful of flicks. Three of the films on my list, I love in their entirety. As for the other two, one is well done but a bit overrated and the other is a major disappointment redeemed by a ballsy ending. Tread [...]
Continue reading »I’ve taken a slight hiatus from this feature, but I’m back with a couple new lists. As always, please use the Comments section below to share your faves.
For this list, I decided to tackle the concept of the Guilty Pleasure flick. I wouldn’t call any of the movies that made my list a bad movie [...]
The late Gene Siskel once applied this logic to determine what makes a good movie. Five good scenes and no bad ones.
I’ll up the ante and say – throw in one great scene and you have a classic.
Today I’ve decided to focus on those scenes that are so picture perfect in execution. I’m talking about [...]
