Zodiac Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I will conclude the 2015 review season with today’s entry before taking a short break from this parallel post series of…
Opening Titles and Song: Zodiac (2007)
Since we’ll be piercing the layers of Robert Graysmith’s book that documented the onslaught of a serial murderer in the Bay area during the ’60s and ’70s,…
Alert The CDC! It’s a Halloween SLIFR Movie Quiz!
Among his loyal readers, blogger Dennis Cozzalio — he of the wonderfully titled Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule site…that’s not him pictured above, btw — is well-regarded for…
Book Review – The Beatles’ Second Album (Rock of Ages) by Dave Marsh
At this very moment, playing on the vintage (almost forty year-old) Technics turntable as I write this is an artifact of my youth. A five decades-old LP — okay, the…
Audiobook Behavioral Science – Thomas’ Trilogy + Lee’s One
Have read every single book1 written by the man who began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico as a reporter and…
Starflight (1978) by Wilbert Longmire
This a recent record store find from the definitive Jazz Fusion era of the ’70s. ‘Sunny Side Up‘ a classic album by guitarist Wilbert Longmire, with assistance…
Intensity by Dean Koontz ℅ Stephen King & Thomas Harris
Sometimes one discovers new aspects to a book, or even in this case an audiobook, upon second reading. Or rather, find you’ve had the same unsettling…
Autumnal Evident: Year of Bests – 2015
Way back when, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up a…
The 13th Warrior Film Review
Can’t believe we’ve reached this point of the season so soon. The penultimate book and film review for 2015 in this duo post series of ours.…
The Death List – Part 4
“Oh, I feel dead.” ~ Kane (Alien) As we’ve seen in this “fatal” film series of mine, no matter that we’re broaching an unsettling subject, cinematically few…
Thoughts on Villenueve’s SICARIO
Where to begin with Denis Villenueve’s SICARIO. I’ve not seen all of his films…yet…but he continues to captivate and strangely enthrall his viewers. Me, included. This…
Friday Song – Kathleen Edwards’ Change the Sheets
My children will undoubtedly tell you, it’s a rare thing for a contemporary song to gather their old man in. Hardly recognizing any new music or performer by ear…
TMT: “Daddy…dad, I’m talking to YOU!”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series begun here. I blame…er, credit… the American Cinematheque for this. Someone has to be…
TMT: Orienting the Egyptian
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. As usual, it’s the online interactions of…
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Film Review
As the dogs days of summer — at least for us in the northern hemisphere — paddle in from the season’s heat and humidity before autumn…
Guest Post » Picking A Bone With Den of Geek: Top 75 Spaceships in Movies and TV
Greetings all and sundry! Apologies for this late arrival. Due to loose ends needing to be tidies up during this rather tame and enjoyable summer. Allowing…
Opening Titles: Prime Cut
Admittedly, I have a distinct penchant for films that clamored out of the turbulent 1970s. Even more so for those of the crime variety that may…
The Best Movie You Ever Saw at a Drive-in
My family and I will be attending something special tomorrow evening. The latest get-together of those who’ve experienced the outdoor joy of another Mission Tiki Drive-in…
61 Thoughts on This Day
In no particular order on this the thirteenth day of August, halfway through the second decade of the 21st century:
One of a Kind: Charlie Huston and The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Author Charlie Huston doesn’t seem capable of writing quiet or cautious fiction. Surprising would be the word I’d use when it comes to experiencing or explaining his work (and…
It Rains... You Get Wet 