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…
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…
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…
Forty Year Friday – STEELY DAN “AJA”
Originally posted on KamerTunesBlog:
Artist: STEELY DAN Album: AJA [Welcome to Forty Year Friday, the weekly series on my favorite albums of 1977] By the time…
TMT: “Live and die on this day.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. For the new year now upon us, the following…
On the Verge: Year of Bests – 2016
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…
Same Song, Different Movie: Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
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,…
Same Song, Different Movie: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
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: 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…
The Sentinel Film Review
For those who’ve followed this Duo Post series of ours, where the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I perform concurrent reviews of books and the movies…
Opening Titles: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
After mentioning his under-appreciated, and for some, decidedly more denigrated work, in another opening titles post earlier in this fast disappearing year, time to examine those…
Friday Forgotten Song: Ethereal Mood by Jean-Luc Ponty
As mentioned awhile back, the year 1978 remains a pivotal annum no matter how you slice it. Politically, nationally, or personally, the ’70s would only continue…
Fall Back: Year of Bests – 2016
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…
It Rains... You Get Wet 