Reblogged » Best Christmas Movies of All Time, Ranked – Thrillist
Just in time for the upcoming festivities, a wonderfully mixed list care of the good folk over at Thrillist. With the holiday season approaching, we’re making…
A Song for This Day: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Through the years I’ve gravitated to different songs for the holiday season. I even have a playlist I spring on my family members when I have…
Bob’s Best at 30: Our Holiday Treat – A Christmas Story
Along the way, specifically through a boy’s solitary eyes and ears, Ralph’s travails with family, school (and the social miscreants that haunt it), the unique traditions and trappings of this religious, and marketer’s wet dream, holiday was crystalized on celluloid.
TMT: “You’ll shoot your eye out!”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. As they say, “Tis the season.” My colleague Morgan…
Reprise » What is it with Thanksgiving, and Movies?
It seems as soon as Halloween ends, with its gala of ghoulish costume delight, then we step into the realm of a holiday that seems to grow less in importance each year. Please don’t take this wrong. Personally, I love this holiday. Back when I was a teen, centuries ago…, I gravitated away from the Christmas holiday as my favorite, naturally, to Thanksgiving.
Tales from the (Movie) Theater: Journey’s End (Part 11)
Being a senior projectionist, at age 22 for the first half of 1977, no less, at the independent Huntington Park Warner Theatre (a place I had come to regularly since I was a kid), was a one-of-a-kind experience. I went from someone who knew next to nothing about the trade to someone who could at the very least get a movie projected — by hook or by crook.
TMT: Returning to the Scene
Within weeks of heading to Century City one night for a movie, only to find Huey helicopters blitzing the avenue on their way up to the Nakatomi Plaza building, I’d begun the last romance of my life. Unbeknownst to me, mind you, but that’s quite okay. At this point, months into it, I found I rather enjoyed being swept up.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
As a fan of Jazz Fusion, and Dave Grusin and Tom Scott in particular, from long ago, I’m including one of my favorite cuts from the…
Seasonal Cheer via Art & Song
Some in-laws sent a link our way and we enjoyed it so much I thought to share. All care of cartoonist Joshua Held, it redeployed The Drifters‘ absolutely…
Givin’ Out Wings 2: “I’m glad I know you, George Bailey.”
It’s no surprise that nearing the end of the year, people tend to celebrate (or curse) what’s happened since they were last here, along with wistfully…
Givin’ Out Wings 1: It’s a Wonderful Harvest, or The Ice Life
“As Wichita Falls… So Falls Wichita Falls.” As I come up on the Yuletide, my common practice of watching seasonal fare is in its usual swing.…
TMT: Not Home & Not Alone
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. A seasonal offering is on tap with this one.…
It Rains... You Get Wet 