Opening Titles and Song: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

As we’re now knee-deep into what I refer to as The Slide1, am trying to clean out my drafts bin before the year runs out. This…

My Top 13 Favorite Pop Instrumentals of the 1980s

This is the continuance of the series began a few weeks back following an idea sparked by the Tom Nawrocki post of his favorite pop instrumentals.…

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

Opening Titles and Song: The Dead Zone (1983)

As I’ve done in past Halloween seasons, have written some appreciative pieces for a few opening titles sequences involving cinema’s darker fare. Today, it’s for one…

My Top 13 Favorite Pop Instrumentals of the 1970s

This is the continuance of the series I began a couple of weeks ago, following an idea sparked by the Tom Nawrocki post of his favorite…

My Top 13 Favorite Pop Instrumentals of the 1960s

The other day, I came across a 2015 blog post by Tom Nawrocki of his favorite pop instrumentals, which I also recommend reading. Still, it got…

Friday Forgotten Song: A Summer Song by Chad & Jeremy

As I’ve been reviewing the revolutionary period I grew up in of late, The Sixties (more on that later), stumbled upon one song that I at…

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…

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…

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…

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