Jean-Pierre Melville is a true master. This is something I seem to have internalized without seeing his films, and by seeing one of his least acclaimed films, Un Flic, first. I found it in a DVD…
Well, autumn is not alone in that respect. But the autumn seasonals are some of the most celebrated beers. I already wrote about High Point Brewing Company’s Ramstein Oktoberfest release, but my mom…
Where have all the bloggings gone, you ask? Milky and I took a road trip. We hit some good eating spots in Pennsyltucky and West Virginny, visited the Gettysburg battlefields, abandoned tunnels of…
It looks like William Friedkin and Michael Mann had a little tiff in the ’80s. After the gritty crime thriller The French Connection, Friedkin made an aimless remake of Wages of Fear called …
Just some places I took the Cooper this month.
Patrick Swayze. Never took himself too seriously, immortalized in Road House and Red Dawn. I still haven’t seen Dirty Dancing - despite growing up among a gaggle of girls, and having seen …
I’ve longed for the Vietnamese sandwich known as the Bánh mì. I’ve heard foodies wax orgasmic about them, and had to try one. How good can a sandwich be? This good.
I finally watched Pépé le Moko, the crime film set in the Casbah of Algiers with Jean Gabin as a Parisian crook holed up in its seedy labyrinth. As a lifelong fan of Pepe le Pew, I almost fell for…
