Opening Titles: Déjà Vu
With the passing of Tony Scott in 2012 still kind of shocking, looking back on his films remains the best tribute for this artist, I think.…
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…
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…
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 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,…
In Winter’s Grasp: 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…
Guest Post » Who’ll Stop The Rain (1978)
Acquire the rights Robert Stone’s best-selling and award winning novel, Dog Soldiers, from 1973. Have Stone kibitz in on a meticulously faithful screenplay by Judith Rascoe. Find locations from San Diego, to L.A., Berkeley and Mexico. Spend whatever is left on an up and coming, lean and very talented cast of mostly then, unknowns. Then lateral it all to budding Czech director, Karel Reisz.
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…
Reblogged » “Pulp Fiction,” “Mary Poppins” added to National Film Registry – CBS News
“Quentin Tarantino’s obscenity-spewing killers and the prim nanny Mary Poppins may have little in common, but the Library of Congress announced today they are all to be preserved for future film audiences.”
Versus AARP’s 10 Essential Boomer Movies
If I do anything on this blog, it is to examine the arts of books, music, and movies. Along with my history (or angst), with them. I confess it’s a tad self-absorbed, and so typical of my generation. With that said, I’ll add my set to the well-known contributors AARP selected for each of their Essential Boomer picks. Let’s end the week with Oliver Stone’s take on the movies with his superb list.
Reprise » Friday Forgotten Film: A Man Could Get Killed
It’s no secret one of my all-time favorite performers, on the small and large screen, is James Garner. And I’ve thought of him as of late. I firmly…
Guest Post » Robert Mitchum At His Best: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Crime and corruption are nothing new to the state of Massachusetts. Its capital, major cities and outlying burgs. Though, there seems to be no lack of new ideas, ways and means in the quick and dirty task of taking money from bank vaults. Preferably from out of the way suburban banks. By using the branch manager’s family as hostages under the threat of death as the illegal transaction is accomplished.
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.
Reblogged » JKM’s Reader Results: The Ten Greatest Science Fiction Films of the 1970s
Reader Results: The Ten Greatest Science Fiction Films of the 1970s. My friend and author John Kenneth Muir tallied the results of his latest Reader Top…
JKM’s Reader Top Ten » Greatest Science Fiction Films of the 1970s
My good friend and author John Kenneth Muir has come up with another of his superb Reader Top Ten collaborations on his blog. And he’s offered more than a few of…
The Haunting Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I are about to finish up another review season before taking a short break from the parallel post…
It Rains... You Get Wet 