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“I never joke about my ranking, 007!”: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, conclusion

Posted on December 8, 2021 by ksedinger

And at last, here we are: the top five James Bond movies. I like that my top five has quite a bit of variety: it spans more than 40 years of films, and five of the six men who have … Continue reading →

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Licence to Rank: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 4

Posted on December 6, 2021 by ksedinger

So here we go: the first half of my person Top Ten James Bond movies! Let’s refresh our rankings to this point: Part One: 26. LIVE AND LET DIE 25. DIE ANOTHER DAY 24. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 23. GOLDFINGER 22. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER … Continue reading →

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A View to a Ranking: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 3

Posted on December 1, 2021 by ksedinger

With this entry, we move from my bottom half of the Bond rankings into the top half. It’s worth remembering that this is all relative: there’s only one movie, Live and Let Die, that I find basically unwatchable. Every one of … Continue reading →

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Live and Let Rank: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 2

Posted on November 29, 2021 by ksedinger

Continuing my Official And Correct Ranking of the James Bond films! This time we will go from Number 20 to Number 16. Our first entry contained the one Bond film I outright dislike, followed by several that just don’t do … Continue reading →

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You Only Get Ranked Once: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, introduction

Posted on November 22, 2021 by ksedinger

It’s only natural that with the arrival of a new James Bond movie, the eternal cottage industry of ranking all of the movies up to that point revs up production again. I’ve seen a whole lot of these articles popping … Continue reading →

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The greatest of all movie closeups…

Posted on November 7, 2021 by ksedinger

…is this one. We watched Casablanca last night, and I remain as entranced by the film as I ever was. This close-up is one of the most affecting parts of the movie. The camera holds Ilsa’s face as she listens to … Continue reading →

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A Repost: “Whacking. I’m hell at whacking.”

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 A repost, published in 2008, on the occasion of Harrison Ford’s 79th birthday. Ford has long been one of my absolute favorite actors. Sheila waxes poetic on one of my favorite movies, Witness. (Yeah, I didn’t rank it highly enough.) … Continue reading →

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“I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go!” Forty Years of Indiana Jones

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 Last week was the 40th anniversary of the initial theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders arrived in the summer that my family uprooted from Hillsboro, OR, for Allegany, NY, all the way across the country. I was still … Continue reading →

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On Ned Beatty and HEAR MY SONG (in part, a repost)

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

Actor Ned Beatty has died at the age of 83. Beatty had a long and wonderful and varied career, and he played a wide variety of characters. I suppose he’s seen more as a “character actor” than as a lead, … Continue reading →

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“What Happened Was….” (Thoughts on the Film)

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 I suppose I am lucky that I never had to negotiate the world of dating as a single adult, out there in “the wild”. My dating life was mercifully short, and it took place in the context of the sheltered … Continue reading →

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