Last week I went to Chicago to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, a Christmas present from my wife. I’m not going to write about that experience, because the nice thing about being a semi-retired music writer is now I can just enjoy a concert and not worry about organizing my thoughts on a… Read More 100 films I haven’t seen: ‘The Proposition’

I’m going to do a few of these where I feel almost a bit embarrassed to admit I haven’t seen the film. This is definitely one of those. Film 2: “Escape From New York” My Excuse for Not Watching It: I think it’s partly just that John Carpenter was kind of in my pop culture… Read More 100 Films I Haven’t Seen: ‘Escape From New York’

I used to see a lot of movies. In college, I had a membership to the local art house theater that let me see everything for free (I think it was $50 a year). After college, I spent about two years doing weekly movie reviews for Juice, which often involved seeing films that weren’t quite… Read More 100 films I haven’t seen: ‘Singin’ in the Rain’