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Category Archives: films
Fulci the Psychic
I’m not sure you know this or not, dear reader, but I almost died. A couple of weeks ago I nearly slid of a cliff on the coast of Oregon to my untimely demise. It was A LOT! In fact, … Continue reading
2025 Family Pictures Podcasts Awards
About a month ago now Michael Branson Smith (MBS) and I did a special episode of the Family Pictures Podcast in order to look back on all the films we had discussed up and until that point (there were 48). … Continue reading
Invasion of the AI Oblivion
I was playing with ChatGPT to explore a couple of versions of an essay I wrote back in 1999 during grad school. I was pretty impressed with both the feedback as well as a re-write ChatGPT did. After the machine … Continue reading
It’s Already Here!
I’ve been digging Mike Caulfield’s deep dives into ChatGPT these days. What’s even cooler is he has gone full-in on the movie theme, which makes it that much more fun. His basic premise is pretty much in line with all … Continue reading
Shane Is Fight Club in Reverse
One of the things that emerged in our discussion of Shane (1953) in episode 44 of the Family Pictures Podcast is just how explicitly the film is rooted in real labor history, specifically the Johnson County War of the late … Continue reading
The New Land vs Empire Strikes Back
For this week’s Family Pictures Podcast, MBS and I discussed the 1972 masterpiece The New Land, a film adapted from a novel chronicling a Swedish family’s emigration to Minnesota in the 19th century. I had never heard of the film … Continue reading
Media Haul: Vinyl, Laserdiscs, DVDs, and more
I’m back from my final trip of the year, and when in Rome it’s hard for me not to do some media hauling. I hit Amoeba Records in LA and picked up Drain’s California Cursed, Shudder to Think’s Pony Express Record … Continue reading
Jaws Exhibit at Academy Museum
On Sunday Mikhail took me to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures given they were running an exhibit on Jaws in honor of it’s 50th anniversary. It was pretty amazing. We originally signed up for the tour, but it was … Continue reading
Pedator: Badlands
Once you start making dioramas about films you start seeing them everywhere. Case in point, I went to the AMC multiplex The Grove in LA and what do I see as soon as I enter the lobby? A diorama to … Continue reading