Pre-Code.Com Site News for June 2014 Life in Japan is still going well as I start my last semester of Grad school. I’m thankful that it’s almost done– my interest in the subject matter has tanked considerably after my last two classes threw a few curveballs and I grew increasingly Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for May 2014 Times are still pretty good in Tokyo as I wrap up this semester of grad school (one to go!). I’ve finally grown comfortable with driving, so we’ve been making small side trips to places like Tachikawa, Hachioji, and Yokohama (I could be making these Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for April 2014 I hope everyone’s March came out alright. I burned my foot fire walking and got through midterms for school, and that’s about as exciting as it gets around here while I’m in classes. I’m down to 16 weeks total of school left, and when Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for March 2014 Welcome again to the show that never ends! I hope everyone enjoyed my mostly-William Powell February, since he truly is the best expression of love in such a romantic month. We’re three months into 2014 now and I’m not sure if anyone picked up Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for February 2014 I’m alive! I have made it to Japan with my wife and two dogs, and everything is going okay, Well, I mean, Classicflix refuses to send me discs any more and both Warner Archive Instant and TCM Watch don’t work in this country, but Read more
Pre-Code.Com Site News for January 2014 After a nice and relaxing December, it’s time to get back in the swing of things in January. This month on TCM is packed full of rare and strange pre-Code offerings, including a half day dedicated to director Charles Brabin and a day full Read more
So the big news I’m going to kick this post off with doesn’t actually involve movies, but my own personal fortunes: I will be moving in late December/mid January to Japan. My wife’s job has transferred, so that means I will be transitioning to unemployment, finishing up a semester of Read more
Ah, October. Here in California, that can only mean one thing: rain! Beautiful sweet rain! Living in a desert sucks sometimes, I swear. Oh, but it also means horror movies and stuff. While pre-Code horror movies rely a great deal less on gore and strangely persistent video cameras than most Read more
I sometimes get worried that my site is too stuffy, what with it being 99% reviews of movies that were made several decades before my readership was born. I wanted to try my hand at being a little more cordial, so I’m going to try a post with this month’s Read more