This being the first post, I guess I'll tell you a little bit about myself.  I'm a documentary filmmaker by day and confessed movie geek cine-file by night.  I love movies, some good, some bad, but all great. 

I also believe I am the first person to have imagined the yet to be invented 'bad movie Ash button'.  A fantastical device that, at the push of a button, would allow you to magically insert 'Ash' from Evil Dead into any crappy movie you are currently watching.  That's right.  Imagine the power and joy of being stuck on a airplane, forced to watch He's Just Not That Into You, starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Aniston, and with the push of a 'magical' button, have Bruce Campbell walk onscreen with a chain saw mounted on one hand and shotgun in the other...and he just starts killin' everybody.

But I digress.  It doesn't just take rivers of blood to make me happy.  I am an equal opportunity movie lover.  I love Elaine May comedies, Sidney Lumet dramas, Kenneth Anger shorts, Robert Wise musicals, Antonioni, Fellini, Kieslowski, Malle, Woo and pretty much ANYTHING by Kubrick or Kurosawa. Zombie films, spaghetti westerns, shark movies, gay/lesbian/transgender cinema, black action films of the 70s (not 'blaxsploitation', there's a difference and we'll talk more about that later), British indie dramas of the 60s, Hong Kong cinema, French New Wave...the list does go on and on.  

Of course, that does leave us with the one highly specialized genre of films that this blog is named after.  For me, the quickest way to utter cinema glory and happiness (and thus the quickest way to my heart) are those films that feature two important things:  Lee Marvin and a gun.  I'll finish up this post for now, but I'll be back with more thoughts and images from the films I love to love.  As Torshiro Mifune said in Yojimbo "You idiot!  I'm not dying yet. There's a bunch of guys I have to kill first".