The Last Duel (2021)
“My father told me my life would be blessed with good fortune. I’m married. I was a good wife. And then I was judged and shammed…
“My father told me my life would be blessed with good fortune. I’m married. I was a good wife. And then I was judged and shammed…
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…
“Well, we’re not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.”
Originally posted on Strange Shapes:
Bolaji Badejo was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 23rd, 1953, the second child to parents Victor and Elizabeth Badejo (née Bamidale).…
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…
John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Reader Results: The Top Ten Greatest Horror Films (1960 – 2000). My friend and author John…
My good friend and author John Kenneth Muir has come up with another of his superb Reader Top Ten collaborations on his blog. A timely one at that for…
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I join up for another round in the parallel post series of ours. For this, we will examine…
My good friend and author John Kenneth Muir has come up with another of his Reader Top Ten collaborations. This time looking back at more recent…
Within weeks of heading to Century City one night for a movie, only to find Huey helicopters blitzing the avenue on their way up to the Nakatomi Plaza building, I’d begun the last romance of my life. Unbeknownst to me, mind you, but that’s quite okay. At this point, months into it, I found I rather enjoyed being swept up.
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…
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. As has been noted, the first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was…
Bloggers Paula, Kellee, and Aurora are in the final days of another successful online event. The 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. The goal set is to get down in writing any…
This is the next entry in a series from early last year that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies.…
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…
Originally posted on Technicolor Dreams:
If the release of STAR WARS on May 25, 1977 altered the esthetic course of my life, filling my impressionable mind…
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. I’d been holding this one back for a while,…
Previous: Sci-Fi [Note: I moved this post up from its regular 13th publication date because that lands on Mother’s Day this month.] This is the continuation of a…
Previous: Gangster 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…
Continuing my thoughts from last month regarding the use of song in film, I’ll reiterate some that I’ve previously said. “Needle dropped” tunes are not considered…