The Zachtastic Movie Blog

For me, there are few movies and TV shows that echo the fun, excitement, and leisure that accompany summer quite like SpongeBob SquarePants . Given that it’s based entirely on an ocean floor that may as well be a Californian beach town, one can’t help but think of having fun in the Sun while watching it — at least such is the case for me. (Photo Source: IMDB ) With that being said, summer is coming soon! Once my finals are complete next week, I will feel like a free man born again… until the tyranny restarts in August. In the meantime, though, I felt that this would be an appropriate opportunity for me to pay tribute to one of my favorite cartoons of all-time. SpongeBob has a great summertime feel to it since it’s based entirely in the ocean, and on that note, Bikini Bottom feels like a California beach town. With that, I hope this list does the show and the summer season justice. This post will consist of my top 10 favorite SpongeBob episodes, along with some honorab...

(Poster Source: IMDB ) I once attended a screening of Lawrence of Arabia with my good friend Makenzie several years ago. The Cinemark theater in my local neighborhood (one which I also happen to work at) hosts these special screenings for older films in what’s known as the Cinemark Classic Series on a weekly basis. Given that I always had a curious interest in the acclaimed classic, we gave it a shot. Makenzie was mercilessly burdened by the runtime, causing her to hate the film once the credits began to roll. While I admit that the experience was lengthy and arduous, something about its blend of immaculate imagery, epic scope, and complex narrative gripped me. It was the kind of adventure epic that we don’t get nowadays — one that deliberately maintains a slow pace to wrap an audience into its story, and then takes them on a journey as grand as that which the characters endure. As such, I was very curious about a recently released film called The Lost City of Z . Alt...