I’m not going to lie – this sucked pretty bad. I’m partially to blame, as I waited to long to do this and had to do it in the middle of winter when it was pitch black at 5am and the house was freezing. This whole idea stemmed from the five am club book that…
Ciao! Come Stai? Io vorrei studiaro il parlaro Italian. Stavo Andado Italia in maggio e Io Volevo imparare molto Italiano. Ok, that’s about as much butchered Italian as I’m going to subject you to. It’s a lot easier for me to read and understand than to write or speak as conjugating the verbs correctly is…
I’ve been playing guitar for years and in the last five or so I’ve been mixing in vocals and learning new songs but they’re all someone else’s song. I’ve always wanted to write my own songs but never really went through the process. I did have a notebook (electronic) where I jotted down ideas, snippets…
I love cooking. Most of my skills in this area were honed when I worked as a line cook in various restaurants but they started watching people in my family cook. My grandmother was your typical Italian Nonna, always at the stove making something delicious. My mom wasn’t what you’d call a great cook (she…
Imagine if somebody made a crime thriller that’s actually two movies in perfect balance: a cop movie and a heist movie doing an intricate dance around each other until they collide in an explosion of gunfire and existential crisis. That’s Michael Mann’s “Heat,” a film that treats both sides of the law with such careful…
If you’ve ever watched an action movie and thought “This needs more… everything,” then John Woo’s “Hard Boiled” is your cinematic all-you-can-eat buffet. This is what happens when you take Hong Kong action cinema, crank it up to 11, break off the dial, and keep cranking anyway. Chow Yun-fat stars as Tequila (yes, that’s his…
Welcome to 1950s Los Angeles, where the men are crooked, the women are dangerous, and everyone’s eyebrows are perfectly sculpted. Curtis Hanson’s “L.A. Confidential” is what happens when you take film noir, inject it with Hollywood steroids, and tell it to solve a murder case that’s more twisted than a pretzel in a tornado. Our…
Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” isn’t just a movie – it’s a movement captured on film, a three-hour-plus journey through one of the most complex and transformative figures in American history. And let me tell you, if you think you know Malcolm X’s story from your history books, this film will make you think again. The…
Fargo (1996): You Betcha It’s a Masterpiece Oh jeez, where do we start with “Fargo”? Ya know, the Coen Brothers could’ve just made a straightforward crime thriller about a kidnapping scheme gone wrong in Minnesota. Instead, they gave us a quirky masterpiece that’s basically what would happen if you dropped film noir into a wood…
Picture this: A former slave becomes one of history’s most influential philosophers, writes nothing down himself, and yet his wisdom survives two millennia to become a self-help sensation among Silicon Valley CEOs and Reddit stoics. That’s Epictetus for you, and “The Manual” is his greatest hits album. This pocket-sized guide to living well is essentially…