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Bumping this up as a reminder: I’ve been doing lots of behind-the-scenes tweaking since the redesign, one of which is very important to note if you follow site updates via an RSS feed. I will soon get rid of the Feedburner feed — that’s the one at this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/flickfilosopher/Sfpt Please update your RSS reader … more…

My first movie premiere. So glamorous. Or not, actually. But that makes me sound so jaded and blasé and cool, doesn’t it: “Oh, sure, I went to the Righteous Kill premiere last night. Yeah, it wasn’t really a big deal.” Waited a looooong time on line to pick up my tickets — way past the … more…

I DVRed Fringe last night, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, and now I have to head out to screenings for the rest of the day. Maybe I’ll get to it late tonight. Was it any good? (Don’t spoil it for me!)

On this day in 1997, FlickFilosopher.com debuted. Well, it didn’t have its own domain for a while — it began on the Web space that was allotted to me as an AOL subscriber. I know: AOL. It’s so… 1997. Geez, 11 years. That seems crazy to me. There weren’t that many people doing movie reviews … more…

I read all the comments posted here. Every single one. And I delete every single one that is attempting to spam my readers, or that is trollish. Just so you know that there’s no point in posting garbage. Don’t waste your time.

It’s like, you make one clean spot, and all of a sudden the whole place looks like hell…

I spent a chunk of hours yesterday freshening up the look of the site. Hope you like it. The changes are mostly cosmetic, with a few exceptions. I moved the posting date and time and the post category to up above the post title, because I think that info was getting lost. (I’ve gotten way … more…

My pal Nathaniel R. tells me he thought of me when he posted this. I told him: Hee hee.

Not all of my contributions to Film.com get crossposted here. Like these: • I interview director Stephen Frears about his film The Deal • I review the 1970s British miniseries The Racing Game • I review the contemporary British mystery series Blue Murder (the Set 3 DVD) And I know it’s silly, and that most … more…