Reblogged » Seven Title Sequence – Watch the Titles
Reblogged » Seven title sequence – Watch the Titles. A few years back, my friend J.D. clued me in to a wonderful examination of the remarkable, and…
Opening Titles: The Wild Bunch
Say what you will about “The Western” as a genre of film, or television, but it had way more versatility than some credit it. For something that seemed…
Reblogged » Text-to-Screen Ratio: Justified (Part 1)
Originally posted on The Lesser of Two Equals:
(Editor’s note: Welcome to the first installment of a two-part series, focusing on FX’s “Justified” and its origins…
13 Perfect Cinematic Moments (via Song) – A Fistful of Moments BLOGATHON
With Ruth’s (and Ted’s) wonderful contribution of late to Andrew’s fine idea of blogging about our favorite scenes over at A Fistful of Films Blog, I was inspired to take part.…
Guest Post » Forgotten War Film Triple Play!
Greetings all and sundry! Having slowly adjusted to the unannounced and unexpected arrival of Daylight Savings Time and extended afternoons into evenings. While arranging my checklist…
Spring Forward: Year of Bests – 2015
A couple of 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…
Apollo 13 Film Review
Timing is everything. I don’t think my partner, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, in this literary and cinema review series of ours foresaw what was…
TMT: “It comes after 12, hon.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Returning to this is getting harder. Memory growing shorter,…
The Wrecking Crew Film Review
Rarely, if ever, have I reviewed a documentary, even though I watch as many as I can during any given year. Over time, I’ve developed quite…
TCM Classic Film Festival: My Schedule…Such As It Is
It’s almost upon us! This year’s TCM Classic Film Festival starts Thursday, hosted as it has been in the prime location of the last few years. At…
Friday Forgotten Song: Cherry, Cherry by Neil Diamond
In the wake of Neil Diamond finally making it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of a great and worthy set of inductees for 2011, felt something worthy…
Guest Post » Unsung Character Actor: Martin Balsam – Same Guy. Always Memorable!
Greetings all and sundry! Having endured a major case of food poisoning. Its less than pleasant symptoms and after effects through Super Bowl Sunday and the…
The Soundtrack of My Life – The 00s
My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few years back that certainly intrigued: The Soundtrack of My Life As Arlee…
The Soundtrack of My Life – The 90s
My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few years back that certainly intrigued: The Soundtrack of My Life As Arlee…
Friday Song & Cover: Tell Me All About It by Michael Franks, Laura Fygi
All cause of a woman, the same one I’ve just celebrated twenty-six years of marriage with. Guess that’s justification enough to wax on some for one…
Brokeback Mountain Film Review
As we’ve restarted our duo post series for the year, it’s good to be back in the saddle again, as Gene Autry would say. If you’re…
The Soundtrack of My Life – The 80s
My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few years back that certainly intrigued: The Soundtrack of My Life As Arlee…
Reprise: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Audiobook)
In general, I’ve come to believe that as great as some notable novels are, written through the decades by talented authors (and I’ve only read a…
The Soundtrack of My Life – The 70s
My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few years back that certainly intrigued: The Soundtrack of My Life As Arlee…
Friday Forgotten Song: Castles in the Air by Don McLean
In Sidney Pollack’s splendid 1975 film adaptation of James Grady’s first novel, the re-titled Three Days of the Condor, Kathy Hale — Faye Dunaway portraying the reluctant “draftee”…
It Rains... You Get Wet 