Fall Back: 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…
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…
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…
Kill City Blues Audiobook Review
Since I don’t write book or audiobook reviews at anything close to a regular rate, I thought to get one out before 2016 was more than…
Winter’s Tail: Year of Bests – 2015
Way back when, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up a…
Autumnal Evident: Year of Bests – 2015
Way back when, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up a…
The Third Man
Originally posted on Riding the High Country:
Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years…
TMT: Oh, lord…
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Might as well end the week on an intriguing…
Guest Post – Neo Noir Gem: Bad Company (1995)
Greeting all and sundry! I would like to thank Michael for the opportunity to proffer a topic that has filled hours of late night, after dinner…
A Close That’s a Beginning: Year of Bests – 2012
If last year is to be believed (seems so long ago now), I began a change, as I mentioned in April. Previously, I did not have a…
Experiment in Terror Film Review
We’re at that time again, and it didn’t seem like it took that long to get here. Fall has fallen, and we keep tumbling toward the…
Movie Title Sequence: Experiment in Terror
This is the relatively simple movie titles sequence to Blake Edwards’ stellar film, Experiment in Terror (1962). Yet, the opening remains one of the eminently moodiest in…
For Noir’s Sake: A Sunbaked Triple
In her eye-opening essay, The Post Noir P.I., initially published in 1996 for the Film Noir Reader (an anthology of compositions I think should be on the…
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.…
The Maltese Falcon Film Review
The year 2012 is barely here, but as I look up at the calendar the damn thing tells me that January is coming to an end……
TMT: Alone with the Japanese Syndicate
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Along with my proclivity to snag just about anything,…
Friday Song: Goodnight Moon
Sometimes, there are songs that simply catch me off-guard with the oddness in their melody. Perhaps, a ballad garners consideration merely by its unexpected presence in…
It Rains... You Get Wet 