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I love Netflix. Love. It. Was the price increase and the Qwikster affair handled in a fashion clumsy beyond belief? Sure, although if Future Me had appeared time travelled back to tell 1999 Me about the enormous amount of movies that would be delivered to his doorstep and made available online for $25 month, 1999 [...] I think I’m coming in just under the wire with this: happy birthday to Myrna Loy, the funniest women I’ve ever seen on screen. You can go here to read a lovely tribute. The reading list for 2010 is updated and closed. The reading list for 2011 is now open. In December of 2009 my to-be-read pile number about 190. This December past it stood at about 220. I attribute this jump not only to a lack of time to read in general, but to the large of [...] I have here some odds and ends for your consideration and possible enjoyment. First – yet more pictures of the Rocket, mostly from a trip to the Paragon Carousel. With which she was completely unimpressed. Also in the imagery line – a collection of covers of vintage men’s magazines. Which taken as a whole seem [...] I had no idea, but MGM has a channel on YouTube with all sorts of content available for free. You should have seen then already but if you haven’t you can watch A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. No idea if it’s the extended [...] Oh hi. Have you heard the news, the news about the Battleship movie? Yes, as in the exciting and complicated board game Battleship – it’s being adapted for a movie. What’s the hook you ask? How will they take a game that is a jumped up version of guess a number between one and ten [...] In remembrance of Patrick Swayze, David Lynch re-edited Dirty Dancing. Looks like this will be a fresh take on a familiar film. Requiescat in pace: Patrick Swayze. The Bunny likes to give me a hard time because of my fondness for Swayze. I never felt any need to apologize for my appreciation of the man. He made three damn fine B-movies (Red Dawn, Road House, Point Break), a commodity in short supply these recent years. Transformers? That’s [...] Like rock n’ roll, the popularity of gangster films* has spread far beyond the American culture where they were born. This (mostly) past summer I watched a number of French and Hong Kong films in that genre. In particular I watched a lot of Johnny To films, continuing a process started back in December when [...] I’ve been meaning to point this out for some time: The Hunt For Gollum, a 40 minute independent film, inspired by Peter Jackson’s work. You can see the trailer here. The whole thing is pretty entertaining – not a bad way to spend 40 minutes. Mostly we are busy unpacking and gallivanting off to the Berkshires and sometimes just lazing about. But I did upload some new photos for your viewing pleasure. Also – if you’re of a cinematic bent, I highly recommend the recently released Criterion Collection edition of The Friends of Eddie Coyle. First, see it for Bob [...] From Cooked Books: a menu from a 1975 dinner honoring Julia Child and James Beard. Very appropriate since tonight I’m cooking a Julia recipe. And did you know that that today marks the 50th anniversary of Rio Bravo? You know what is completely unnecessary? A remake of the Witch Mountain movies. Starring The Rock. First of all, is it necessary to strip mine every bit of Generation X’s childhood for today’s ‘entertainment?’ Also, despite my admiration for Kim Richards, the original Witch Mountain films were just not that good. For your movie-choosing convenience – the Ninja Movie Decision Tree. Revenge of the Ninja remains my favorite Golan-Globus movie – high praise indeed when one considers my adolescence was littered with such Golan-Globus gems as Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, Missing in Action, and Hercules. The Intended and I have been re-watching the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy over the past week, so it seems only appropriate to point you all toward this extended meditation on the nature of the upcoming Hobbit films. Related? The song We Don’t Need Another Hero is stuck in my head this morning. [...] |
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