Same Song, Different Movie: Run Through The Jungle by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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,…
Friday Forgotten Film – North Sea Hijack aka “ffolkes” (1980)
Admiral Brindsen: “I suppose you’re one of those fellows who does the Times crossword puzzle in ten minutes.” ffolkes: “I have never taken ten minutes.” Sir…
Summer’s Heat: 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…
Same Song, Different Movie: Sinnerman by Nina Simone
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,…
King Rat (1965)
“Lieutenant, I’d like to point out to you that I don’t have to put up with this crap from you. I’m not in your two-bit army,…
Opening Titles and Song: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
As a certain auteur’s film debut approaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, easy to see why in the two-and-a-half decades since Reservoir Dogs‘ release1, it maintains an influence that’s…
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…
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…
Guest Post » A Character Actor Spotlight: Stephen Lang
Welcome all and sundry! It isn’t every day when one is given time to contemplate and compare the accumulated body of work of a hard 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…
The Death List – Part 5
“Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else…
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,…
It Rains... You Get Wet 