Curmudgeon Media Podcast: Everything and Nothing ep.6 w/ Harry's Haunted House

In this episode of Everything and Nothing, Curmudgeon Media are joined by Harry's Haunted House to discuss everything from Doctor Who to '80s nostalgia, with plenty of nonsensical chit chat in between...

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A Crash Course in Writing a Great Detective Movie

Image courtesy of Green Ornstein Words by Curmudgeon Film Talk . SETTLE DOWN CLASS. …ehem… Sorry, I’ve always wanted to say that. In either case, welcome to Detective Writing 101 . Today, we’re going to be taking a peruse through a few trademarks of a great detective story . I’ll be your professor, Dr. Curmudgeon . Except I don’t have a Master’s Degree yet, so I’m not a professor. Nor do I have a doctorate, so the proper title would be Mr. Curmudgeon. But I have a blog, and I complain about movies on the internet. That’s basically the same as having a PhD, right? If you’re familiar with my writing – which might be unlikely , since Curmudgeon Media’s collective following consists of an old man who lives in my crawl space, my dog, and a boiled egg – you may have noticed that I’m big on film noir . When I say “big on film noir,” I of course mean that I will shoehorn it into any conversation, and if I could materialise its essence and inject it directly int...

How A Silent Voice changed my life - a salute to Kyoto Animation

Written by The Curmudgeon I n 2017 I watched a film for the first time which perfectly embodied my experience with depression. The story and themes captured not just the symptoms of my personal depression, but also a cause. It so succinctly sliced through the confusing bullshit of my mind. It cracked a code. I’m talking about A Silent Voice (2016) . I feel indebted to this movie because it somehow found a way to explain my depression better than I ever could. It gave me words when there were none. It made depression feel like a less lonely place, perhaps just because I had something to compare myself to. I’d like to delve into how the film affected me and how I read into it personally. This is not a review, nor is it an exhaustive essay claiming to understand what the film is ‘about’, per se. This is simply my own take on a film which affected me in a totally idiosyncratic way. And, as always…spoilers ahead. A Silent Voice revolves around two kids: a...

Red Riding: film noir and realism

Written by The Curmudgeon I have to admit to being a bit of a sucker for film noir. The old-school capers like A Touch of Evil (1958) and The Killers (1946), or the renaissance “neo-noir” flicks like Blade Runner (1982) or Brick (2005), it’s all the same to me. That said, it’s not a great time to be a fedora-core, noir-nerd like me. The genre doesn’t see much contemporary attention these days, and anyone such as myself is left a bit starved of the grim catharsis those bleak tales and ghostly shadows can provide. That’s why it’s so refreshing to stumble upon a noir you’ve never heard of, never seen, but is nonetheless incredibly fucking good . That, folks, is why I’d like to introduce you to the Red Riding Trilogy . A series of British TV movies aired in 2009, Red Riding stands out, above all else, because it’s so relentlessly real . It skips the romanticism of your typical Raymond Chandler story, trading in the picturesque aesthetic of American city streets for the r...

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