Lee in Limbo’s Matinée Idyll: The Maltese Falcon
SERIES INTRODUCTION A year or two ago, my good friend Rodney Brazeau asked me to start writing classic movie reviews for him. I did a handful [1] [2] [3] for him and enjoyed the act of reviewing these...
View ArticleWho Is Peter Capaldi?
Okay, that’s a VERY misleading title. See, I haven’t followed him all throughout his acting career, but I’ve known about Peter Capaldi at least as far back as 1983 and a little film called Local Hero,...
View ArticleSaturday, In The Park, I Think It Was The Fourth of July
Okay, the title is almost completely irrelevant. So what. It’s a classic. Enjoy. I apologize. I meant to post yesterday, but was feeling really winded and spent much of the afternoon asleep in bed....
View ArticleWhy I Hate Vampire Stories
Okay, I haven’t posted in the past few days. Been run down from the remainder of Chest Muck Plague 2014. So I’m sleeping, enjoying a curious narrative about a nebbishy kind of guy in bad shape (kinda...
View ArticleLong Ago, In A Movie Trope Far, Far Away…
Sorry for the no posty thing. I’m still sick as a dog, and posting requires that I actually be coherent. This next post may fail completely on that score. So my wife and I were watching the three part...
View ArticleBondage and Dominance – The Problem With Being a James Bond Fan Is…
…that the ‘classic’ films, some of which are forty or fifty years old now, are from and about a bygone era when the so-called Cold War Heroes were deeply flawed, sexually ambivalent and largely...
View ArticleO Captain My Captain: In Memoriam of Robin Williams
I’m trying something here, and I already know it will fail, because I can’t quite wrap my brain around this. But bear with me, or give this one a miss, if you prefer. When I was a boy, I listened to a...
View ArticleMetropolis – a classic movie review
Back around 2011 and 2012, my long-time friend Rodney Brazeau asked me to review some classic movies for his Moviesnitch website. Well, the site seems to be gone. So I figured it might not be...
View ArticleHard On His Trail, One-Eye Drew From The Pack
Okay, strange title. Genesis. White Mountain. Trespass album. Go listen to it. Protean masterpiece, rough bits and all. Every track is lovely. I’m trying to re-engage this novel I started. The idea is...
View ArticleDo Androids Dream of Election Fraud?
This is going to be a short bit (I hope) on the classic Blade Runner sci-fi mystery. Okay, three things up front: 1) I write sci-fi. I’m not famous, but I do write sci-fi on occasion. 2) Blade Runner...
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