Opening Titles: Shōgun (2024)
Having just completed FX’s Shōgun series more than a week ago, color me mighty impressed. Its critical success had me thinking back on the series and…
Opening Titles and Song: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
As a certain auteur’s film debut approaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, easy to see why in the two-and-a-half decades since Reservoir Dogs‘ release1, it maintains an influence that’s…
Opening Titles and Song: What’s Up Doc (1972)
“Sex, money, addiction, and emotion are the main reasons people turn to crime.”1 This much is true, and no doubt why I continue to read and watch books and movies dedicated to the subject. Both the fictional and non-fictional kind continue to captivate. Must also be said that I need motivation these days to write […]
Opening Titles and Song: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
No matter where the viewer comes down on the 2017 American remake, its choices on story and casting, which arrived in U.S. theaters last week, the impactful brilliance of…
Opening Titles and Song: Inside Man (2006)
“Sex, money, addiction, and emotion are the main reasons people turn to crime.”1 This much is true, and no doubt why I continue to read and…
Opening Titles and Song: Moonstruck (1987)
It goes without saying that I can be passionate in my views on film…with everything I care about, for that matter. Especially so with the love…
Opening Titles: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
After mentioning his under-appreciated, and for some, decidedly more denigrated work, in another opening titles post earlier in this fast disappearing year, time to examine those…
Opening Titles and Song: Heat (1995)
Time again for my annual screening of a film that continues to mean so much to me. If it didn’t, why use a key character quote…
Opening Titles and Song: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Second bites of the apple are always warranted if the film is significant…special in other words. Such is the case with my favorite John Landis film…
Opening Titles and Song: Life of Pi
Inasmuch as tomorrow is simultaneously the last day of June, representing the final hours of the first-half of the year, as well as the publishing date…
Opening Titles and Song: Dark Shadows (2012)
After mentioning his under-appreciated work in another post earlier in the week, I’ll conclude with the film’s opening titles. Just for the Hell of it. Tim Burton’s…
Opening Titles and Song: Sharky’s Machine (1981)
Sometimes, there is an unexpected inception to a movie, like in a certain action star’s self-directed and underappreciated thriller from the early ’80s. Where the accompanying…
Reblogged: Check Out The Opening Title Sequence For Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Jessica Jones will be available to stream from tomorrow (well, from midnight tonight if you … Source: Check Out The Opening Title Sequence For Marvel’s Jessica…
Opening Titles and Song: Zodiac (2007)
Since we’ll be piercing the layers of Robert Graysmith’s book that documented the onslaught of a serial murderer in the Bay area during the ’60s and ’70s,…
Opening Titles: Prime Cut
Admittedly, I have a distinct penchant for films that clamored out of the turbulent 1970s. Even more so for those of the crime variety that may…
Reblogged » Behind the Work: Marco Polo Title Sequence | The Space Between
Have to say, Netflix’s offerings have captured my imagination of late. I mentioned my love for Marvel’s Daredevil and its impressive opening titles sequence a short…
Opening Titles: Marvel’s Daredevil
Having just completed Marvel’s DAREDEVIL Netflix series, color me mighty impressed. Little wonder my colleague from down-under, Rodney Twelftree of Fernby Films, praised it so last week.…
Opening Titles: The Wild Bunch
Say what you will about “The Western” as a genre of film, or television, but it had way more versatility than some credit it. For something that seemed…
Opening Titles and Song: L.A. Confidential
Whenever the calendar resets, I start to drift back to those films that garner annual viewings in my household. I’m usually the one that leads this…
Opening Titles: Déjà Vu
With the passing of Tony Scott in 2012 still kind of shocking, looking back on his films remains the best tribute for this artist, I think.…
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