For Your Consideration: 2012 Lammys

I know some of my readers are members of the Lamb (Large Association of Movie Blogs), and if you are, you’ve probably seen that the 2012 “Lammy” awards are in full swing. (If you’re not a member of the Lamb, and you have a movie blog, join up!) The Lammys are awards for the best movie blogging in various categories, and everybody’s throwing their hats into the ring for different categories, so I thought I’d throw mine in there as well. It’s the black felt fedora, just like the Blues Brothers.

I’d be honored and humbled if you were to nominate me for any category, so if you’re eligible to nominate and you are considering Morgan on Media for anything, click on through to see some categories that I think Morgan on Media is appropriate for.

College (1927)

Having watched a handful of Charlie Chaplin silent films, I thought I’d take a look at one of the other renowned actors of the silent film era, Buster Keaton. So I queued up the 1927 film College, supposedly directed by James W. Horne (but really by Keaton himself unofficially), and settled in for what I hoped would be a funny hour of entertainment.

Unfortunately, I was left with a sense that I probably should have picked a different film for my introduction to Keaton’s work. College is a bit directionless, a bit tepid, and a bit uncomfortable.