Guest Post » Consummate Character Actor: Saul Rubinek
Greetings all and sundry! Having taken a brief while experiencing weather change from arctic to damp, drizzly wet and cold to the first hints of spring.…
Ken Bruen’s Purgatory
As someone who has come to enjoy crime fiction, it’s no surprise I have my favorites. Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, among the ageless.…
Reprise » Muy Bruen
Some years ago, with encouragement by my friends Jen Forbus and Corey Wilde, I finally took the plunge and dived into a novel by author Ken Bruen. I reserve the right to insert…
Spring Fling: Year of Bests – 2014
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 reading…
The Name of the Rose Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I rejoin for another movie title that began its life between a book cover for our parallel post series.…
Reprise » Friday Forgotten Song: Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
There are songs, if I happen to catch them on the radio or the web, that can instantly transport me back to another time. To begin…
Reprise » Music & Art: Tatooine
Just so readers don’t get the idea that I’m all about the old and forgotten music, I submit the following:
Reblogged » Jackie Brown Movie Review & Film Summary (1997) | Roger Ebert
Remembering why I loved to read Roger Ebert’s reviews, whether I agreed with him or not. And when I did, and it’s for one of my favorite films, Jackie Brown, it just doesn’t get a better.
Reprise » Play Me
Many moons ago, I made a friend online, simply by the effortless act of starting a weblog. His name being Corey Wilde and he was the founding…
Same Song, Different Movie: Don’t Worry Baby by Brian Wilson & Roger Christian
Sharing similarities in key and melody with the famous Phil Spector-produced work, Don’t Worry Baby was primarily about duos. The singer about to race a rival, drag racing in relevance to his girlfriend, and the heart and soul relationship existing between the girl and singer. It’s why, after a good number of years, the song continues to work well with lovers. In this case, Wilson’s longtime hit from 1964 was used in a tender, harmonious context for two different movies, song versions, and the manner deployed in a pair of scenes.
Guest Post » Classic British Gangster Film: The Long Good Friday (1980)
Greetings all and sundry. Favorite films either fall in your lap due to the serendipity of being in the right place at the right time. Or…
Reprise » Because of Him :: Greatest Guitar Riffs
Some years ago, our local oldies station, KRTH, posed a question to its listeners. Call in and list your favorite guitar riffs. All in honor of the…
Saturday Night Movies…The Late TV Kind
Whereas my mother’s family introduced me to the movies as a wee youngster, landing me on this road of appreciating the art form, let alone blogging…
TMT: Sneaking In When You’re Out
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. For this memory download1, I finally follow-up on something…
I Am Legend Film Review
As I’ve reached a milestone this week, February has finally begun to act like…well, February. The normally cold and wet time for us in the southland befits…
Reprise » “Fer Shur”… It’s an ’80 Thing
A few years ago, the film blogger over at Colonel Mortimer Will Have His Revenge wrapped up his 1980 Project. A personal proposal begun a few years back, my…
Reprise » A Musical Valentine for My Bride
* My marriage to this lovely woman will soon reach a quarter century this year. It’s funny how life obliges you to realize the things that…
Guest Post » A Better WWII Art Treasure Film: The Train (1964)
Greetings, all and sundry! Given all the hoopla, ad campaigns and late night talk show chatter and buzz devoted to The Monuments Men. I’ve decided to divert…
The Long and Winding Road Back
While I’m up at the landmark Capitol Records Building for today’s The Beatles Hollywood 50th Public Commemoration, I thought I’d share Tape Op Magazine‘s photo. It’s perfect…
The Right Stuff Film Review
It’s January, normally a cold and wet time for us in the southland. But not this year. The newest month of 2014 is about to end,…
It Rains... You Get Wet 