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…
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…
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,…
Opening Titles and Song: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Once again during this time of isolation stemming from the spread of COVID-19, have listened to music to keep sane. Distracting myself with YouTube videos discussing…
Opening Titles and Song: Casino (1995)
During our time of “lockdown”, “safer-at-home”, or whatever your state, country, local government have named their attempts1 at stemming the spread of COVID-19, many of us…
Opening Titles and Song: Three Days of the Condor (1975)
As this is one of the films I make a point to watch during the year-end Christmas holiday, will give Three Days of the Condor‘s opening…
Opening Titles and Song: Drive (2011)
“There’s a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don’t need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a…
Opening Titles and Song: Quick Change (1990)
“All we’ve got going for us is the city. Our only hope is they’re mired down in the same shit that you and I have to…
Opening Titles and Song: The Exorcist III (1990)
“I have dreams… of a rose, and then of falling down a long flight of steps.” Having read William Peter Blatty’s Legion novel in ’83, it…
Opening Titles and Song: Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
My habit of watching war films for the Memorial Day holiday, partially for my entertainment but also to remember the men and women who’ve died in…
Opening Titles and Song: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Having once again attended the splendid TCM Film Festival — the annual gathering of movie lovers in the heart of Hollywood — took in a number of classic movies with…
Opening Titles and Song: High Plains Drifter (1973)
Crack the whip [idiom] To behave in a domineering manner; demand hard work and efficiency from those under one’s control. Having finished another go around with…
Opening Titles and Song: Prince of Darkness (1987)
“Let’s talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time…
Opening Titles and Song: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
As a certain auteur’s film debut approaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, easy to see why in the two-and-a-half decades since Reservoir Dogs‘ release1, it maintains an influence that’s…
Opening Titles and Song: What’s Up Doc (1972)
“Sex, money, addiction, and emotion are the main reasons people turn to crime.”1 This much is true, and no doubt why I continue to read and watch books and movies dedicated to the subject. Both the fictional and non-fictional kind continue to captivate. Must also be said that I need motivation these days to write […]
Opening Titles and Song: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
No matter where the viewer comes down on the 2017 American remake, its choices on story and casting, which arrived in U.S. theaters last week, the impactful brilliance of…
Opening Titles and Song: Inside Man (2006)
“Sex, money, addiction, and emotion are the main reasons people turn to crime.”1 This much is true, and no doubt why I continue to read and…
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…
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