Favorite Scene: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
I’ve wanted to highlight this section of film for some time. Just never got around to it…as usual. But credit two people, longtime reader Cindy and…
The Death List – Part 5
“Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else…
Forty Year Friday – STEELY DAN “AJA”
Originally posted on KamerTunesBlog:
Artist: STEELY DAN Album: AJA [Welcome to Forty Year Friday, the weekly series on my favorite albums of 1977] By the time…
TMT: “Live and die on this day.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. For the new year now upon us, the following…
A Song For This Day (and year): Suavecito
Another year over and upon us, and like I’ve done before, highlighting a song that just felt right for this point in time. Once again, selected…
On the Verge: Year of Bests – 2016
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Same Song, Different Movie: Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
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,…
“I’m Serial, You’re Parallel.”
Reprising and updating a piece I wrote some years ago in an attempt at humorous mansplaining…please take with a grain of salt — preferrably the variety coating…
Seven Years in Parallel – A Series Summation
Like a number of things, the start of this seems like yesterday. Was still using Google’s blogging platform back when I came to know, and later…
Same Song, Different Movie: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
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,…
Opening Titles and Song: Moonstruck (1987)
It goes without saying that I can be passionate in my views on film…with everything I care about, for that matter. Especially so with the love…
The Sentinel Film Review
For those who’ve followed this Duo Post series of ours, where the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I perform concurrent reviews of books and the movies…
Opening Titles: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
After mentioning his under-appreciated, and for some, decidedly more denigrated work, in another opening titles post earlier in this fast disappearing year, time to examine those…
TMT: “…with quiet dignity and grace.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Though this motion picture is in-between milestone anniversaries (those…
Friday Forgotten Song: Ethereal Mood by Jean-Luc Ponty
As mentioned awhile back, the year 1978 remains a pivotal annum no matter how you slice it. Politically, nationally, or personally, the ’70s would only continue…
Fall Back: Year of Bests – 2016
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Strangers on a Train Film Review
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but another September 30th has landed. They keep coming and all the faster. For those unaware, ever since I became a…
TMT: “Help me get my feet back on the ground”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. The following was inspired by attending last weekend’s screening…
Same Song, Different Movie: Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack
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,…
Reblogged » Bond Directors: Licence to List – #Bond_age_
Been a while since the blog has done a post dedicated to the longest running movie series in history. Since I’m attending the re-screening of the…
It Rains... You Get Wet 