TMT: a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time
If someone told me the day after I graduated high school I’d be writing something about anything related to film, or books, or even family years…
A Small Study in Contrast: Bishop & Rafe
Note: The following is another contributive post to this week’s Lance Henriksen Blogathon hosted by my friend/author John Kenneth Muir and Joe Maddrey, the co-author of “Not…
A Viewership Lived Through Lance
Note: The following is my contributive post to friend/author John Kenneth Muir and his Lance Henriksen Blogathon this week (which I highly recommend). (dictionary definition) char·ac·ter ac·tor |ˈker-ik-tər ‘ak-tər…
Friday Forgotten Song: Touch by John Klemmer
On the eve of the L.A. Times Festival of Books (this year the event is on my wife’s university stomping grounds on U.S.C.’s campus), the subject…
Free Fall Film Review
With the upcoming L.A. Times Festival of Books right around the corner, it means springtime is here in the southland. No wonder I feel so freakin’…
Friday Song (& Dance Sequence): Chaiyya Chaiyya
Back in 2006, noted director Spike Lee brought forward a really fine cast in one of the better heist flicks of recent years, Inside Man. I’m…
My Cinematic Alphabet Soup
Two bloggers I happily follow both contributed excellent movie lists to the My Cinema Alphabet meme that’s making its way across the blogosphere. This looked like…
A TV/Film Project: The Civil War
With today marking the 150th Anniversary for the start of the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865), I thought it apt to…
My Favorite Films of a Master Filmmaker: Sidney Lumet
With the unexpected passing of one of the giants of cinema yesterday, I’m following the lead of my fellow bloggers by putting together a list of…
Reprise: Friday Forgotten Book – The Ninth Configuration
Since the moveable feast that is Easter is late this year, I thought it appropriate to re-post (and update) a piece I wrote in late-2009 for…
This isn’t flying, this is blogging with style!
The fine western and noir film blogger on the opposite side of the Atlantic (this sounds better than saying ‘way, way on the other side of…
Not Just Another Western: The Quick and The Dead
Blogger’s note: This post was part of Bryce Wilson’s Raimifest that went on at his wonderful Things That Don’t Suck blog. If you’ve read some of my…
Anniversary 30 – Reprise: Thief
My fellow southland blogger over at Colonel Mortimer Will Have His Revenge, having rapped up his 1980 Project, has moved on to the next year in…
Our Man Goldsmith
Having been introduced to the James Bond series at the tender age of 10 with the release of Goldfinger in 1964, you could say I was…
Get Carter Film Review
“You’re a big man, but you’re in bad shape. With me it’s a full time job.” It’s Spring! As has been the case for the last…
Forty Years Today: Get Carter’s Opening Titles
In honor of director Mike Hodges‘ gem of a crime film, one that debuted 40 years ago today — and for which Ed Copeland offers an…
How About This For March Madness?
Today marks my brother’s birthday, but more importantly (hehe) it’s also the start of io9.com’s March Movie Madness: Pick the Greatest Science Fiction Movie Ever Made:…
A Brief But Gorgeous Bit of Titles
The clever folks over at The Art of the Title Sequence have put together a short film for tonight’s opening of the SXSW “Title Design Finalists…
Double-Feature c/o Author Craig Johnson
Here’s something that makes me feel instantly old and gray: describing to my children that I could buy one ticket and watch two pictures at a…
Ever Walk In These Shoes?
I can’t say I disagree with the substance of what author Stephen Blackmoore covered in his blogpost today regarding the differences between men and women. The…
It Rains... You Get Wet 