Movies reviewed this week: Forbidden City, U.S.A., The Last Days of Disco, and A Bay of Blood.

Movies reviewed this week: Johnny Guitar, Shaft, Matador, After Yang, and Polytechnique.

Movies reviewed this week: The Naked Kiss and Mr. Jones.

Movies reviewed this week: Throw Down, Scanners, The Empty Man, and The Passenger.

I’m playing Magic: the Gathering Arena right now. I went through a few approaches while figuring out how to make it fun for me. I wanted to satisfy my competitive urge, spend as little money as possible, and not get overwhelmed with the complexity of deck-building. Here’s what I came up with.

Movies reviewed this week: Kimi, King of New York, and Memories of Murder.

Movies reviewed this week: Pierrot le Fou and Pig.

I watched The Firemen’s Ball recently and enjoyed it quite a bit. The way Forman extracts humor from the banality really struck me. It also reminded me of the Electric Bastionland mini-campaign I’ve been chewing on. I mean, tell me this isn’t a Bastion Council at work. You could just run the whole movie as a background thread while other things are going on. “Ah, no, Monsieur Bagatelle can’t speak right now, he’s at the Firemen’s Ball.” “Well, I’m willing to do you that favor, but you need to make sure my daughter wins the beauty pageant.” “Huh, when did that building burn down?” But it also intersects nicely with the Piertown Borough ideas I’ve been toying with. Don’t read after the cut if you’re playing in my mini-campaign. By which I mean if you want to play in this, drop me a comment, I have two slots I need to fill.

Movies reviewed this week: The Firemen’s Ball, Rope, Nobody, and The Hit.

Movies reviewed this week: Cape Fear, Beau Travail, The Velvet Underground, A Field in England, Baby Doll, and Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror.