TMT: In London, but on the Westside
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. For October, as a fan of monster and horror…
TMT: Howl Till It Hurts
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Recently, a colleague returned to contribute more of his fine writing online with a short post on a seminal sci-fi film. To celebrate his reappearance, I thought to jot down one more of these since it was he who inspired this very line of memory posts.
Time Again for Autumn Leaves and a Movie Quiz
Among his regular readers, blogger Dennis Cozzalio (he of the wonderfully titled Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule site… and that’s not him pictured above, btw) is…
Hitting The Slide: Year of Bests – 2012
As I mentioned in April, last year I did not have a chance to publish a year-end piece on those web articles (many of them on…
Small Roles… Big Performances blogathon: Dom Deluise in FAIL-SAFE
The following is my contribution to Ruth and her Flixchatter blog’s Small Roles… Big Performances blogathon. As she laid it out:
“The idea of this blog-a-thon is to shine a spotlight on the ‘unsung heroes’ if you will, the overlooked performers who add so much richness/entertainment value to the film no matter how brief their appearance is, but yet they don’t get the credit they so deserve.”
The Great Raid Film Review
My partner and I have done these duo posts for a couple of years now. We usually lay out a list of book/films a few months…
Friday Forgotten Film: The Dirty Dozen
Two things drove this particular Forgotten Film post. First, since good friends and colleagues Paula (of Paula’s Cinema Club) and Kevin (aka Jack Deth) hosted and…
A Few Words for Charade
Since I went and included the work in my recent Versus AFI Top 10 Romantic Comedies piece, I thought a few words for one film was warranted. Though I never saw it in a movie theater setting (something I regret to this very day), the film remains one of my all-time favorites, and an annual screening in our household. It is Stanley Donen’s still highly underrated Charade.
Originally posted on FLIXCHATTER FILM BLOG:
Hello, hello!! Summer is winding down as August comes to a close… but hey, there are still plenty of Autumn…
A Journey… With JAWS
Inspired by Iba’s look-back post in July of a seminal box office film, and Universal’s 100th anniversary release of the digitally remastered and fully restored version to Blu-ray Disc (made…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Romantic Comedy
Previous: Western 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 Top…
Twenty-Five Years (Plus) and Still Climbing
As my contribution to the Tony Scott Blogathon, hosted at Seetimaar — Diary of a Movie Lover, I’m re-publishing and updating my 25th Anniversary celebratory piece on…
Bubba Ho-Tep Film Review
I have to admit something before, dear reader, you get to perusing the review: I didn’t consciously plan this. Yeah, sure, last month’s duo post book/film…
For Noir’s Sake: A Sunbaked Triple
In her eye-opening essay, The Post Noir P.I., initially published in 1996 for the Film Noir Reader (an anthology of compositions I think should be on…
Liebster’d… Once More
My colleague Paula, over at Paula’s Cinema Club, nominated moi for a blogging award (my second of these) that’s been making its way across the blogging world: The Liebster…
Friday Forgotten Film: Sorcerer
Whether some things are doomed to failure because of bad timing on their release, or in combination with a lack of understanding by those (few) that…
TMT: Graduating with Honors… and Attitude
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. The primary reason for this one is I’ve yet to finish the significant movies from my youth. That and the fact that three articles, two from Dan’s blog, today’s Movies That Everyone Should See and a Tossin’ It Out There: What Movie Reminds YOU of Your “Younger Days”? from awhile back, where my particular comment coincided with the film highlighted days later by Trailers From Hell, brought it all back to the forefront.
An Appreciation: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Given that I placed this particular film high on my recent Western post, one that was part of my AFI Top 10 arc, it inspired me to…
TMT: Vision Versus Bifocals
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Since I am in the midst of my own little…
An Appreciation: Unforgiven
Some years ago, the writer and movie blogger known as Mr. Peel examined John Wayne‘s final film, The Shootist, in another of his splendid film essays.…
It Rains... You Get Wet 