Friday Forgotten Song: Watch Your Step by Anita Baker
Having run across this LP at last week’s Pasadena City College Flea Market and Record Swap, and added it to my vinyl collection, seemed a good…
TMT: Rated-R
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. It’s no secret, Joe Dante’s Trailers From Hell is…
Interview: Vickie Lester and Why “It’s in His Kiss”
“Hollywood. The Dream Factory A camera-ready world of fantasy fulfilled, artifice and bone-deep glamour — or a place of dark reality, depthless closets, failed love, false prophets and untimely death. Anne Brown must find where the truth lies. Truth. Lies. It’s in his kiss. Vickie Lester has written the ultimate Hollywood insider murder-mystery with gasp-worthy plot twists and plenty of delicious, naughty moments…”
TMT: “The Wrath of…Who?”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series begun right here. As mentioned before, at one time I had a list of movies…
TMT: Magnificent Serendipity
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. One of my favorite sites to haunt online, whether…
The ABCs of a Blog Award
As you know, I don’t turn down awards. I’m selfish that way. Not that I don’t appreciate the nomination by Aurora (aka @CitizenScreen) over at Once…
Empire of the Sun Film Review
We’re back. The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I, post-Memorial Day, will close the month with a war film that began its life between a book cover. By…
Guest Post » Ground Breaking “Film Quality Television”: Hill Street Blues
Greetings, all and sundry! Taking advantage of some splendidly warm weather. And having my arms and legs abused with aches and pains from places I’d forgotten…
Sky Above – The Enemy Below
As this is the Memorial Day holiday, I’ve made a habit of watching war films in remembrance of the men and women who died serving this country. Two of Powell’s were such, and very good films as a matter of fact. Since my colleague Kevin highlighted one last year in a guest post, The Hunters (1958), I’ll promote his first that preceded it. The supremely underrated, The Enemy Below (1957).
THEM!
Originally posted on Outspoken & Freckled:
It’s the dry, sandy desert of the New Mexico landscape of the 1950’s. A small plane circles above in radio…
Opening Titles and Song: L.A. Confidential
Whenever the calendar resets, I start to drift back to those films that garner annual viewings in my household. I’m usually the one that leads this…
Reprise » Favorite Movies of L.A.
More than four years ago, seems like only yesterday for some of us, my local ally Pop Culture Nerd linked her readers, and her L.A. Times Festival of…
Reprise » Favorite Books of L.A.
More than four years ago, that’s 28 of them in my dog’s life, mi compadre Pop Culture Nerd linked readers, and her L.A. Times Festival of Books friends,…
Reblogged » Jen’s Book Thoughts: Any Other Name – Craig Johnson
Reblogged» Jen’s Book Thoughts: Any Other Name – Craig Johnson Having just finished the latest Walt Longmire novel by Craig Johnson, Any Other Name, I’m again…
Reblogged » The Thing Alternative Posters – Films – ShortList Magazine
Reblogged: The Thing Alternative Posters – Films – ShortList Magazine. The clever folk at ShortList Magazine posted on another seminal John Carpenter flick, The Thing. Examining…
Friday Forgotten Song: Everything That Touches You by The Association
Admittedly, many I’ve spotlighted in this forgotten song series, which honestly began on a lark, are of the way-back-when variety. Rarely heard by later generations. I’ve stuck with those that somehow clicked…
Reblogged » Cover Versions: The 20 best H.R. Giger record sleeves – The Vinyl Factory
Reblogged » Cover Versions: The 20 best H.R. Giger record sleeves – The Vinyl Factory. The good folk over at The Vinyl Factory threw a marvelous…
Best Album Covers: Cheap Thrills
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…
TMT: “I want to escape from wherever this is.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series begun here. “Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.”…
Reprise » Heroic Silhouette Images in Film
My good friend and movie blogger, J.D. from RADIATOR HEAVEN, tagged me with a meme awhile back. One that made the rounds in 2010, and naturally close to my…
It Rains... You Get Wet 