Opening Titles and Song: The Big Country (1958)
Here’s hoping we truly are in a better place at stemming the spread of COVID-191 as more of us have returned to watching movies once again…
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Friday Forgotten Song: A Summer Song by Chad & Jeremy
Sampled years later by Will Smith for the background in his 'Summertime' ditty, among others, Summer Madness had to be one of the unforeseen strains to come out of the Light of…
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Book Review – HEAT 2 by Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner
Anyone who knows me, for that matter this blog, could easily foresee that the first novel by the renowned director-producer-screenwriter, Michael Mann, would have been so highly…
The Last Duel (2021)
“My father told me my life would be blessed with good fortune. I’m married. I was a good wife. And then I was judged and shammed…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 5
Saturday Night Movies…The Late TV Kind
Versus AFI: Top 10 of 100 Years… 100 Songs
Anniversary 30 – Reprise: Thief
A Song For This Day (and year): American Pie
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before (alright, it’s a habit), highlighting a song that just felt right at this point in…
Audiobook Review – Beatles New York to L.A. Double
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Friday Forgotten Song: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
For those of us around when the country celebrated its bicentennial, it was an extraordinary time. That it landed in the midst of a momentous, and…
Black Book (2006)
Rachel Stein aka Ellis de Vries: “It is their intention, that for the queen and my fatherland, I have to hook up with a powerful SD’er……
TMT: Where’s the Zebra?
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Have to say, I thought this series had quietly…
Opening Titles and Song: Fargo (1996)
As Spring is about to be sprung, and we’ve lost another hour of sleep1, a certain film is soon to reach its 25th anniversary. Due to…
A Heartbreak Triple from 1971
“With the exception of grief, there’s hardly a life circumstance more painful than heartbreak.” ~ Kimberly Gillan Would have to agree with the above quote, but…
Same Song, Different Movie: London Calling by The Clash
This is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Specifically,…
A Song For This Day (and year): Heartlight
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before (alright, it’s a habit), highlighting a song that just felt right for this point in…
Book Review – The Beatles From A to Zed
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Opening Titles and Song: Lethal Weapon (1987)
Even as the spread of COVID-19 worsens in this very cruel year of 2020, really didn’t want it to affect the holiday season. But it does,…
Best Album Covers: Unity
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
The Last Movie Quiz…of 2020, that is…I’ll Do
Well, I’m only a few weeks late for the most recent, but wonderful, distraction to our current pandemic. And once again this was when Dennis posted…
My Top 13 Favorite Music Videos From the ’90s
Since I began this little project with a look at my favorite music videos of the 1980s, knew I had to let the other shoe drop.…
Opening Titles and Song: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Once again during this time of isolation stemming from the spread of COVID-19, have listened to music to keep sane. Distracting myself with YouTube videos discussing…
My Top 13 Favorite Music Videos From the ’80s
The other day, in this year of love in the time of corona, I re-watched a favorite film of my daughter and I, Atomic Blonde (2017).…
No “Barbecues and ballgames?” – Michael Mann’s Heat at 25
Director-producer-writer Michael Mann has had a singularly remarkable career. No less so for the body of work that has spanned network television, motion pictures, and cable…
Opening Titles and Song: Casino (1995)
During our time of “lockdown”, “safer-at-home”, or whatever your state, country, local government have named their attempts1 at stemming the spread of COVID-19, many of us…
It Rains... You Get Wet 