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).…

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

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…

A Never Too Late for Spring Movie Quiz

Yeah, well I’m truly and fully late for this one. And the only reason I even noted how tardy was the fact Dennis’ posted his answers…

Favorite Song Verses – A Start

As most every music fan knows, songs are like poems, even if you’re not into the latter. The definition of which well applies to both forms:…

Reblogged » 12 Essential Records Loved by Audio Nerds

“Listening to vinyl isn’t the easiest way to listen to music, especially by today’s streaming standards. Nor does it guarantee the highest-quality listening experience anymore, as…

A Song For This Day (and year): Stoned Soul Picnic

Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before, highlighting a song that just felt right for this point in time. As has been…

The Soundtrack of My Life – The 10s

As promised four years ago, am adding the 2010s to this series. My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few…

Opening Titles and Song: Three Days of the Condor (1975)

As this is one of the films I make a point to watch during the year-end Christmas holiday, will give Three Days of the Condor‘s opening…

Book Review – Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of The Beatles

No surprise given this the 50th anniversary for what turned out to be The Beatles final album, a number of tomes released in 2019 covering that…

Opening Titles and Song: Drive (2011)

“There’s a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don’t need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a…

Best Album Covers: Abbey Road

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…

A Sanctionistic Summer Vacation for a Movie Quiz

Among his regular readers, blogger Dennis Cozzalio (he of the wonderfully titled Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule site… and as professorial as the guy in…

Opening Titles and Song: Quick Change (1990)

“All we’ve got going for us is the city. Our only hope is they’re mired down in the same shit that you and I have to…

Same Song, Different Movie: Since I Don’t Have You by The Skyliners

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): That’s the Way Love Is