Friday Song: Death of a Bachelor by Panic at the Disco
Author Royce Holladay describes “pattern spotters” as those who “…have a gift for seeing patterns in chaos. They make great artists and politicians and parents of…
Friday Forgotten Song: What Am I Doing Hangin’ Round? by The Monkees
Am fairly sure this happens to everyone, at one time or another, if you’ve a parent who decides to share something pretty personal with their child. The…
Same Song, Different Movie: Sinnerman by Nina Simone
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,…
King Rat (1965)
“Lieutenant, I’d like to point out to you that I don’t have to put up with this crap from you. I’m not in your two-bit army,…
Best Album Covers: Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
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…
TMT: The Bruce Connection
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. How long has it been since one of these…
Time Again To Be Late for the Moriarty 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…
More Movie Meme Madness
Another of those movie memes making its way ‘cross social networks. If I’m going to do it, might as well be here. Pitiful, I know, but…
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 […]
Same Song, Different Movie: Anything Goes by Cole Porter
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: 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…
Spring Thaw: Year of Bests – 2017
A few 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 up…
Best Album Covers: Tattoo You
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
This Is My Film
Those on Twitter or Facebook may have noticed a certain meme making waves or hashtags — #Thisisyourfilm — in the ether. Obviously, it’s another in a…
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…
Guest Post » A Character Actor Spotlight: Stephen Lang
Welcome all and sundry! It isn’t every day when one is given time to contemplate and compare the accumulated body of work of a hard and…
Best Album Covers: Hub-Tones
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
Favorite Scene: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
I’ve wanted to highlight this section of film for some time. Just never got around to it…as usual. But credit two people, longtime reader Cindy and…
The Death List – Part 5
“Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else…
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