What is it with Thanksgiving, and Movies? — Part 2
About a dozen years ago, I posted on today’s holiday and its relationship to the movies in my life.
“Ghosts are real. This much I know.” – Crimson Peak at 10
As it’s been nine months since my last post — go ahead and make the pregnant pause comment for those of you who must — it…
Opening Titles and Song: Trouble Man (1972)
I was recently reminded of 1972 by a few folks1, some of whom were even around back then. A momentous year no matter how one cuts…
Opening Titles: Shōgun (2024)
Having just completed FX’s Shōgun series more than a week ago, color me mighty impressed. Its critical success had me thinking back on the series and…
Closing Song and Scene: Steve Jobs (2015)
As I’ve finished another viewing of what’s probably my favorite Danny Boyle film, thought to give this an appreciation via a specific aspect of the film.…
TMT: The Spice Must Flow
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Having just finished Ryan Britt’s splendid treatise, The Spice…
Two for the Gloaming – Robert Benton’s PI Tandem
“You’d think with all that that the world would lose its power to seduce, but you’d be wrong.” ~ Harry Ross Funny what we glom on…
Favorite Scene: Interrogation Intrigue – Tequila Sunrise
As I’ve noted elsewhere, every year, usually over the summer, “…I make it a point to watch one of my favorite movies, Robert Towne‘s Tequila Sunrise.…
TMT: Sometimes a Great Movie
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Hard to believe I’ve any memories left for movies…
Ran (1985)
Ran (乱, translation: “chaos” or “turmoil”) In the past few years, besides having less time than usual, let alone a pandemic to deal with even if…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Opening Titles and Song: Lethal Weapon (1987)
Even as the spread of COVID-19 worsens in this very cruel year of 2020, really didn’t want it to affect the holiday season. But it does,…
The Last Movie Quiz…of 2020, that is…I’ll Do
Well, I’m only a few weeks late for the most recent, but wonderful, distraction to our current pandemic. And once again this was when Dennis posted…
It Rains... You Get Wet 