Opening Titles and Song: Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
My habit of watching war films for the Memorial Day holiday, partially for my entertainment but also to remember the men and women who’ve died in…
Opening Titles and Song: High Plains Drifter (1973)
Crack the whip [idiom] To behave in a domineering manner; demand hard work and efficiency from those under one’s control. Having finished another go around with…
Guest Post » Hollywood’s Rugged Individualists, Thugs and Creeps Part 1
Welcome all and Sundry. To this closing installment of a very intriguing three post arc covering different “types” of characters demanded in film. And those few…
TMT: “I reckon so.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Hard to believe it’s been a year since my…
George Kennedy – A Two Film Tribute
This week, and we’ve had a seemingly endless spate of them, has seen another well-known, admired, and beloved actor of TV and film leave this mortal…
Reprise » A Meme of 15 (Directors)
About five years ago, my friend J.D. — he of the wonderful RADIATOR HEAVEN blog — wrote about a particular meme that had arisen in the ether back then. Since…
Reprise – Holiday Movie Quiz Time!: My Answers
Because I’m lazy I wanted to have them all in one place, I’m pulling my earliest movie quiz posts from the old blog archive and placing them on…
Opening Titles: Where Eagles Dare
There are films, whether they are the important classics of cinephiles or not, which leave a distinct impression. And if they occurred during your formative years,…
Tales from the (Movie) Theater: Of Westerns, Dramas, and JAWS (Part 9)
By week three, all of the working projectionists could perform a changeover without watching for cue marks. We knew the movie so well we could do it by listening to the soundtrack and dialog alone. No one was happier to see it go than the crew in the booth (we were so sick of it). I couldn’t re-watch that movie again till sometime in the 90s.
Reprise: Quiz Time, Part Deux
Because I’m lazy I wanted to have them all in one place, I’m pulling my earliest movie quiz posts from the old blog archive and placing them…
Same Song, Different Movie: Fly Me To The Moon by Bart Howard
This is the continuation of a series from early last year that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, used in movies…
Time Again for Autumn Leaves and a 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…
An Appreciation: Unforgiven
Some years ago, the writer and movie blogger known as Mr. Peel examined John Wayne‘s final film, The Shootist, in another of his splendid film essays.…
TMT: “All on account of pulling a trigger.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. As I begin to close-out my Versus AFI: 10 Top 10…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Western
Previous: Sports This is the continuation of a series I began in January of this year that examines and remarks on The American Film Institute and its recent propensity to create Top…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Sports
Previous: Mystery This is the continuation of a series I began in January of this year that examines and remarks on The American Film Institute and its recent propensity to create…
TMT: We Dared
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Since I highlighted this crowd-pleaser of an action movie,…
Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on ‘Where Eagles Dare’
Reblogged from The Trailers From Hell! Where Eagles Dare: “World War II meets James Bond. Elliot Kastner’s action-packed, enduringly popular superproduction was filmed on various impressive Austrian…
Quite the Early Crop: Year of Bests – 2012
Last year, I didn’t get a chance to publish a year-end piece on those blog articles I most admired — for their authors’ writing and my…
TMT: “Let’s see what this baby can do.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Once again, my good friend and author John Kenneth Muir has…
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