Opening Titles and Song: Heat (1995)
Time again for my annual screening of a film that continues to mean so much to me. If it didn’t, why use a key character quote…
Opening Titles and Song: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Second bites of the apple are always warranted if the film is significant…special in other words. Such is the case with my favorite John Landis film…
52 Pick-Up Film Review
We’re not exactly in the dog days of summer as yet, but the heat is certainly building up already. Maybe it’s telling that our next entry…
Guest Post » Cinematic Tough Guys and Rugged Individualists
Greetings all and sundry! Having gone a bit long and broad in my previous critique of Cinematic Rebels. This next journey of exploration may come up…
Summer Storms: 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…
Life of Pi Film Review
Now that we’ve blown past the summer solstice (or winter’s for those down under), the second half of the year is just over the horizon. Like…
Opening Titles and Song: Life of Pi
Inasmuch as tomorrow is simultaneously the last day of June, representing the final hours of the first-half of the year, as well as the publishing date…
TMT: “Be afraid…be very afraid.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Blogger Hammy Reviews inspired this memory download by reminding…
Lucky 13 Film Club July Topic
Originally posted on Cindy Bruchman:
Welcome, Californian Michael from It Rains, You Get Wet. A fun part of running the Lucky 13 Film Club is the…
Deliverance Film Review
Here we are once more, reaching the end of another month at the close of the Memorial Day weekend. Consequently, bringing one more book-film combo into our sights…
Friday Forgotten Film – The Siege of Firebase Gloria
DiNardo: “This is insanity.” Hafner: “This is effective. Charlie’s got this valley by the balls. Won’t nobody step out of line around here.” The “war film”…
Decades Blogathon – The Outlaw Josey Wales
Originally posted on three rows back:
It’s day four of the Decades Blogathon – 6 edition – hosted by myself and the awesome Tom from Digital…
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…
Favorite Scene: George Lassos the Moon – It’s a Wonderful Life
The annual joy of last week’s TCM Classic Film Festival granted moi a welcomed chance to revisit an all-time favorite film of mine. One I never tire…
The Laughing Policeman Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I return for another movie that began its life between a book cover for our parallel post series. In…
My Leap Year TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule
Next week, this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival begins its grandeur come Thursday, the 28th. Once more hosted as it has been in the prime location of the…
TMT: “King me!”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Since we’re visiting the year 2004 this week, and…
Opening Titles and Song: Dark Shadows (2012)
After mentioning his under-appreciated work in another post earlier in the week, I’ll conclude with the film’s opening titles. Just for the Hell of it. Tim Burton’s…
Same Song, Different Movie: Theme From A Summer Place by Max Steiner
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,…
Spring Fling: 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…
