Category Archives: On Movies

2024 in movies, 5 sentences each (January through June)

Posted on July 3, 2024 by ksedinger

OK, I’m going to try this! I’m starting this post on December 31, 2023, and if all goes according to plan, I’ll publish at the very end of 2024. [UPDATE! You can see right now that this is dawning six months … Continue reading →

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Thoughts while watching ST ELMO’S FIRE (a repost)

Posted on June 15, 2024 by ksedinger

I wrote this post over twelve years ago, but right now there’s a documentary about The Brat Pack on Netflix that’s getting some talk on Teh Socials, and that’s leading to people re-watching Brat Pack movies, including this one. Reaction … Continue reading →

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“The Force will be with you. Always.” (a repost)

Posted on May 25, 2024 by ksedinger

Today marks the 47th anniversary of the release of George Lucas’s “little space movie”, which wasn’t even 20th Century Fox’s projected “Big Movie” of that year. Little did the world know what was about to happen…and certainly a five-year-old kid … Continue reading →

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“I have come to conquer you!” A repost in honor of the great Roger Corman

Posted on May 15, 2024 by ksedinger

Filmmaker Roger Corman died the other day. It was always easy to poke fun at Corman’s films, but he strove to make them as good as he could, and on his own terms. Corman’s studio was not only prolific but … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on May 2, 2024 by ksedinger

There was news this week on the TRON front: Jeff Bridges is returning to the franchise for the third film that is apparently getting made soon. I’m a longtime TRON fan, all the way back to the original film in 1982, and … Continue reading →

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“Dick, sometimes I understand why they hate you.” Nixon, 30 years gone

Posted on April 22, 2024 by ksedinger

A few days after Richard Nixon died (on this date, 1994), I was out riding around with my father as he did some errands. We stopped at the post office in the town where we lived, and Dad noticed that … Continue reading →

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Streaming Killed the Cinema Star

Posted on March 16, 2024 by ksedinger

This is a topic that just keeps coming up, and up, and up on social media: seeing movies in the theater versus waiting to stream at home. The latest go-round of this topic came up just in the last day … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on February 15, 2024 by ksedinger

‘On one rainy night in Tokyo, three strangers experience solitude from three unique perspectives.’ That’s the description of this short film, Tokyo Solitude, which YouTube’s algorithm offered up for me the other day. I found this utterly captivating; the imagery is … Continue reading →

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On Character: SCHINDLER’S LIST

Posted on February 11, 2024 by ksedinger

I love a great bit of character writing, and this is terrific. By way of set-up: at this point we’re probably, oh, two hours into the movie. Oskar Schindler started the film by using Jewish investors’ money to buy a … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday: Happy Birthday, John Williams!

Posted on February 8, 2024 by ksedinger

John Williams turns 92 today…and he’s still working. In his honor, let’s listen to some of his work! Williams won a Grammy just the other night for this: “Helena’s Theme” from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. It’s a typically gorgeous … Continue reading →

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