We have a few movies at our place. When your spouse is mobility disabled and can’t stand 2 hours in a theater seat . . . when the best movie value for your dollar is “previously viewed” . . . when you can sit at home and eat your own food during the movie, or <gasp> smoke during the movie, or <GASP> go to the bathroom during the movie without missing anything (we love the pause button) . . . you tend to amass a rather large collection. We have over 600 movies — surely a beginner’s collection by some standards, but enough to make our friends gape. They think we’re nuts. Well, yeah, but in a good way.
I’ve got the complete list of movies currently on our Movie Wall up on the web site; in a way, it’s a good place to get some insight on my household. What are we into? What genres do we hang out in? What don’t we own? (I often head straight to the bookshelves when I enter a house or room for the very first time; what’s there, and what isn’t, gives a good set of clues about the people who live there and how to “speak their language.”) See if our tastes match with yours. We like to think we have something for everybody — go check out the list and let me know if we’re right!
So why should you read my movie reviews? Good question. Maybe because I’m not going to review your standard just-out extravaganzas; I don’t see them till they hit DVD anyway, so that’ll be behind the times. Maybe because I’m not looking at them from the standard reviewer’s angle. I’m just a shlob like you — no film school education, no journalistic connections, no reason to use Hollywood-speak. Just someone who has watched a lot — and I mean a lot — of movies, who’d like to remind you of some of the older ones that are still cool. Think of them as recommendations for a weekend rental, or something to add to your gifting wish list. Or as an impulse buy. It’s amazing how many of these films are still available, upgraded to DVD; a few I had thought I’d never find again actually turned out to be cheap! I’ll try to point out bargains when I find them.
So I’ll be posting movie reviews on a regular basis, not for any particular Popular Delusion, but because good stories and pretty pictures on film is a Delusion of mine that I like to share. The answer to “Gee, I haven’t seen that” in this house is usually “We can fix that.” We love introducing people to new places in the Multiverse. Let me see if I can introduce you to a few . . . 
