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Select Posts from Defunct Strange Herring Blog
- A Strange Review: Creed November 25, 2015
- The Greatest Letter Ever Written? November 16, 2015
- That Time I Worked for Rambo November 7, 2015
- Jillian Melchior, Superstar November 7, 2015
- I’d Avoid This Club if I Were You September 8, 2015
- A Strange Review: W1A September 2, 2015
- Idris Elba and the James Bond Kerfuffle September 1, 2015
- A Very Strange Preview: Sergio Leone’s “The Siege of Leningrad” September 1, 2015
- Strange Quote of the Day: Ronda Rousey September 1, 2015
- R.I.P. Alex Rocco July 19, 2015
- Somebody Down Here Likes Him July 12, 2015
- The Superman Movie That Never Got Made, Thank Goodness July 6, 2015
- Read This Not That This Summer July 4, 2015
- Socialism as Transableism July 4, 2015
- A Strange Preview: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Downslope’ June 25, 2015
- R.I.P. Dick Van Patten June 24, 2015
- The Rebirth of an Indie Bookstore June 20, 2015
- Are We Living in Orwell’s World or Lewis Carroll’s? June 10, 2015
- A Strange Review: Cut Bank June 9, 2015
- This Ethnic Group Got So Tired of Being Depicted as a Bunch of Terrorists, It Did This June 6, 2015
- A Plea for Insanity June 4, 2015
- Twenty Almost Good Song Titles June 2, 2015
- “Tomorrowland”: Signifying Nothing May 30, 2015
- Taxi Driver Starring Woody Allen May 29, 2015
- Community: Breaking the Fourth Wall and the Last Taboo May 27, 2015
- Inside Jokes You May Have Missed Inside Big Movies May 27, 2015
- A Strange Review: Lucy May 24, 2015
- Industrial Light and Magic: An Appreciation May 21, 2015
- Saying Good-bye to David Letterman May 19, 2015
- Martin Scorsese’s 2013 Jefferson Lecture May 18, 2015
- Mad Max: Fury Road—The WORST Movie Experience of My Life May 14, 2015
- Scotsman Armando Iannucci to Deliver MacTaggart Lecture May 12, 2015
- Orson Welles at the Kosher Deli May 12, 2015
- The Stan Lee School of Cameo Acting April 28, 2015
- The Greatest Chase Scene in Cinema History April 25, 2015
- This Is What I Call Italian Takeout April 17, 2015
- IN HIS HEAD April 14, 2015
- 15 Almost Great Movie Lines April 11, 2015
- “You Want It. I Think I Had to Have It.” March 25, 2015
- Framing Images March 22, 2015
- Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh February 11, 2015
- The True Scandal of This Year’s Oscar Nominations… January 15, 2015
- A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman March 15, 2014
- Is This the Worst Sitcom in the History of Sitting? March 15, 2014
- A Strange Postview: Lars and the Real Girl February 17, 2014
- Your Showman of Showmen Is Dead February 12, 2014
- A Strange Detective: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother January 26, 2014
- A Strange Review: Inside Llewyn Davis January 11, 2014
- A Strange Review: The Great Beauty December 27, 2013
- A Strange Review: Grudge Match December 26, 2013
- A Strange Review: American Hustle December 24, 2013
- A Strange Review: Anchorman 2—The Legend Continues December 21, 2013
- One Tin Soldier Dead at 82 December 15, 2013
- In Honor of the Late, Great Peter O’Toole December 15, 2013
- A Strange Audition: Robert De Niro as Sonny Corleone December 4, 2013
- For Those of You Headed to the Movies This Weekend November 30, 2013
- A Strange Blooper Reel: The Avengers November 21, 2013
- Bob Newhart at the National Press Club, 1995 November 7, 2013
- Once Again, Der Fuhrer Explains It All for You October 31, 2013
- One More NYC Icon Bites the High-Rent Dust October 29, 2013
- A Strange Preview: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology October 28, 2013
- A Strange Review: Gravity October 6, 2013
- The Galaxy’s Largest Collection of Star Wars Memorabilia September 15, 2013
- Please Don’t Drop the Internet September 2, 2013
- A Strange Review: Closed Circuit August 31, 2013
- The Late Elmore Leonard on His Writing Process August 21, 2013
- A Strange Review: Jobs August 17, 2013
- A Strange Postview: The Day the Clown Cried August 12, 2013
- Eileen Brennan: 1932-2013 July 30, 2013
- A Strange Review: The Way, Way Back July 17, 2013
- An Interview with Gene Wilder: June 13, 2013 July 9, 2013
- A Strange Review: Kumare July 7, 2013
- A Strange Review: Man of Steel June 15, 2013
- The Deep Dark Secrets of Return of the Jedi May 27, 2013
- A Strange Review: Star Trek into Darkness May 24, 2013
- A Strange Review: Iron Man 3 May 3, 2013
- A Strange Review: Oblivion April 20, 2013
- We Are All Harry Knowles April 2, 2013
- And You Thought You Understood What Was Going on in The Shining March 28, 2013
- A Strange Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone March 23, 2013
- Speaking of the Late, Great Tony Randall… March 22, 2013
- The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About the New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Is . . . March 21, 2013
- The Funniest Sketch in the History of Sketch Funny March 21, 2013
- Quick Takes on a Bunch of Film-Type Moving Pictures March 9, 2013
- Every 007 Film Cut into One Giant Bond Flick* November 11, 2012
- How Walker Percy’s ‘The Moviegoer’ Won the National Book Award and Other Acts of Brutality November 5, 2012
- The Pope, James Bond, and Me November 1, 2012
- 13 Hitchcock Films You’ve Never Seen. Because They Were Never Made. October 29, 2012
- Forget Obama and Romney: Here’s Why You Should Elect a Comic Book Supervillain October 21, 2012
- A Strange Review: Seven Psychopaths October 20, 2012
- A Strange Review: Argo October 12, 2012
- Why We Should All Hate Big Bird October 10, 2012
- ‘Holy Flying Circus’ October 8, 2012
- Quotes of the Day: Ignazio Silone October 8, 2012
- Happy Columbus Day Observed! October 8, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Master October 6, 2012
- The Invisible Man October 5, 2012
- The Real Count of Monte Cristo Meets the Real Tom Sawyer October 2, 2012
- A Strange Review: Arbitrage September 29, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Bourne Legacy September 29, 2012
- Movie Protested for Pitching Hope for Public Schools September 27, 2012
- ‘Your Brain on Pseudoscience’: The New Statesman Slaps Down Gladwell, Harris, Mooney & Ilk September 25, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Fyodor Dostoyevsky September 25, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Anthony Burgess September 24, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Spike Milligan September 23, 2012
- The Ig Nobel Award Winners of 2012! September 21, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Rajesh Koothrappali September 21, 2012
- ‘Popcorn Lung’ Victim Wins $7 Million Judgment, Next Up ‘Sno-Cap Bladder’ September 20, 2012
- Talk Like Chester A. Arthur Day September 19, 2012
- Would Somebody Please Explain This Phenomenon to Me September 19, 2012
- Strange Quote of the Day: Slavoj Zizek September 16, 2012
- Now the Director of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Says He’s Innocent, Thought He Was Replacing Tony Scott on ‘Top Gun II’ September 15, 2012
- Miserable Waffle-Flippers to Fine Insults September 9, 2012
- Attention, Screwballs: Area 51 Secrets to Be Revealed September 22! September 5, 2012
- For Those of You Who’ve Been Waiting for a New Release of “Heaven’s Gate”… August 31, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Campaign August 31, 2012
- OMG! Microsoft Changes Terms of Its Services Agreement! And I Have No Idea What that Means! August 31, 2012
- A Strange Review: Cosmopolis August 31, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Expendables 2 August 25, 2012
- The Most Racist Shows on TV August 20, 2012
- “Heart of Coppola” August 16, 2012
- Arnold Horshack Is Dead. And You’re All Just Sitting There Enjoying Yourselves as if Nothing Has Happened. August 14, 2012
- How One Scene in The Godfather Foreshadowed Robert DeNiro’s Oscar-Winning Career August 14, 2012
- Top-Ten Movie Lists Give Me Vertigo August 4, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Dark Knight Stinketh July 28, 2012
- ‘Whadda Ya Wanna Do Tonight, Marty?’ July 8, 2012
- Slavoj Zizek’s Philosopher’s Gymnasium June 4, 2012
- Movie Theaters I Mourn February 25, 2012
- A Strange Review: The Artist February 4, 2012
- He Would Have Been 80 Today February 3, 2012
- Two Strange Reviews: Sherlock Holmes II & MI:4 December 21, 2011
- A Strange Review: Melancholia December 14, 2011
- Strange Quote of the Day: Stanley Hudson December 9, 2011
- Film Critic Gets Slammed by Studio for Positive Review of Its Movie December 6, 2011
- A Strange Review: Hugo December 1, 2011
- This Pretty Much Sums Up My Reaction November 21, 2011
- The AMAZING Michael J. Fox! November 15, 2011
- Prominent Social Scientist Faked Dozens of Studies. How Could Anyone Tell? November 2, 2011
- Welles Meets Wells November 2, 2011
- Pinocchio: An Exercise in Terror October 24, 2011
- A Strange Review: Johnny English Reborn October 21, 2011
- A Strange Review: Ides of March October 20, 2011
- In Honor of Columbus Day October 10, 2011
- The Theme Song to ‘Star Trek’ Had Lyrics. And They Sucked. October 4, 2011
- A Strange Review: Moneyball September 24, 2011
- A Strange Review: Contagion September 9, 2011
- And Now for an Andy Rooney–Type Moment February 24, 2009
- BBC Publishes ‘Greatest 101 Questions of All Time’ — No. 67: ‘Why?’ February 24, 2009
- Some Are Born to Greatness While the Oscars Bore Millions Greatly February 22, 2009
- Two Strange Reviews: Revolutionary Road and The Reader February 18, 2009
