Boys (& Music) on the Side
Every so often, my wife wants me to take her to a movie. It doesn’t happen often, or often enough. That’s so because our movie tastes…
Favorite Scene: The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet Episode Title: The Preying Mantis Episode #: 10 Season: One Original Airdate: November 18, 1966 Production Code: 9810 Written by: Charles Hoffman Directed…
My Apologies For Those With Comments
The article’s title says it all, my friends, and unfortunately seems necessary. Fine bloggers and loyal readers Elizabeth and Ronan brought to my attention their recent trouble…
Reprise: Lee or Li?
Recently, Spike TV rolled out its two-hour “I Am Bruce Lee” documentary special (with more than passing references to the Ultimate Fighting Championship stable) earlier this month. It made me think back to the original and iconic Bruce Lee, someone I’ve long admired (and still ponder about from time to time). Then, I thought of the more recent martial arts movie hero (even though he’s pretty much kicking back from big screen martial arts film these days), Jet Li.
TMT: Packed in the Rafters
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Two things brought me to this memory. First, since I…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Gangster
Previous: Courtroom Drama This is the continuation of a series I began in January of this year that examines and remarks on The American Film Institute and its recent propensity to create…
Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip at 30
Every so often, I contribute celebratory articles over at my blogging colleague’s site, Edward Copeland on Film… and More. And with his best concert film, Richard Pryor…
Los Angeles: Recommended Viewing
Previous: Recommended Listening As I finish my look at the wonderful gift my bride of 23 years gave me for our recent wedding anniversary, this is the…
Los Angeles: Recommended Listening
Previous: Recommended Reading As I continue my look at the wonderful gift my bride of 23 years gave me for our recent wedding anniversary, this is…
Los Angeles: Recommended Reading
I consider myself pretty damn lucky for a number of reasons. I have a wonderful family and live in a place where I’d want to move,…
Same Song, Different Movie: Vide Cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy
Continuing my thoughts from last month regarding the use of song in film, I’ll reiterate some that I’ve previously said. “Needle dropped” tunes are not considered…
Persuasion Film Review
Leap day, February 29th, is a date that only occurs, obviously, during Leap Years — those annum that are evenly divisible by 4. Seems like the perfect occasion…
Same Song, Different Movie: Ready Steady Go by Paul Oakenfold
Film soundtracks represent a convergence in a pair of arts I’ve devoted a lot of time toward — that of movies and music. Film scores on the…
TMT: “Ah, I got lucky with the lights.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time series that was begun in May 2011. In staying with the unexpected film theme I find myself in this week, I offer up another related post for a certain 2004 Michael Mann work.
The Best Picture Project: The Godfather (1972)
In honor of The Academy Awards this Sunday, my dear friend Ruth over a Flixchatter is doing a mini-blog-a-thon for the occasion. In looking at Best Pictures…
Mann’s Night of “Fates Intertwined”: Collateral Film Review
When a master of any particular genre returns to it, it’s usually to the satisfaction of the fans of that maestro or the genre. Thankfully, such…
TMT: Being Clear. Crystal.
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time series that was begun here. Since I am continuing my Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 arc, this is the second of two posts on the Courtroom Dramas for February (and the only two I saw on the big screen from my top 10 list). Coincidentally, they occurred in the same month of December, 10 years apart.
“Get me the President on the phone. We’re surrendering our position in Cuba!”
TMT: Try it he did
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Since I am continuing my Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 arc, this…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Courtroom Drama
Previous: Epics This is the continuation of a series I began in January of this year that examines and remarks on The American Film Institute and its recent…
TMT: On The Town
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. As mentioned in a previous TMT entry from last…
It Rains... You Get Wet 