‘The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride’: now on sale
Hoorah! My ‘Princess Bride’ book is finally available!
Hoorah! My ‘Princess Bride’ book is finally available!
Shouldn’t ‘Snakes on a Plane’ have been a license to print money? What happened?
Geeks and Farksters see ‘Snakes on a Plane,’ party after: photographic evidence!
Strangely, delicately weird but not entirely satisfying.
In or near NYC? Come watch ‘Snakes on a Plane’ with me and a bunch of other goofballs on Friday, August 18.

A superb contemporary example of cinema du serpent, wittily harkening back to its thematic progenitors, but it is a marvelous achievement in its own right, too…
There is magic here, and I don’t mean merely the magic of stage conjurers, like the character this wonderfully mysterious and dreamy film turns on. There is movie magic, of the type that reminds you why you fell in love with movies in the first place.

Almost like a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness — when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of them.
Missing the heat wave? Hating this beautiful and temperate summer weather? These movies will get you all hot and bothered…
It’s such a warm and pleasant and human and *humanist* little film that it seems a tad rude to suggest that *Quinceañera* isn’t all it needs to be in order to be a film worthy of wholehearted praise and recommendation.