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Tag Archives: Movies
Something for Thursday: Farewell, James Horner
Composer James Horner died the other day when the airplane he was piloting crashed. He was the sole passenger. This is, quite simply, the worst news to hit the film music world since Michael Kamen, Jerry Goldsmith, and Elmer Bernstein … Continue reading
Dispatches
Some stuff from recent days! :: A kinetic sculpture featuring eleven thousand marbles. This kind of thing delights me to ridiculous degrees. :: This blog is most certainly NOT SAFE FOR WORK, but it’s kind of interesting, if you’ve ever … Continue reading
So here’s a new wrinkle on things….
On a discussion board at TheForce.net, there’s a thread devoted to positive articles about the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. And wouldn’t you know it! My “Fixing the Prequels” posts get a mention! And then it gets a little strange. Seems that … Continue reading
Ranking the Bond Songs!
You know what this blog needs? More lists of things ranked in reverse order of how much I like them! So here is a ranking of all the James Bond theme songs. Before I start, a brief proviso: by “theme … Continue reading
All right, 2015, it’s just YOU and ME!!!
I don’t much do “resolutions”, because it always seems slightly unrealistic to suddenly expect to adopt an entirely new approach to life or something based merely on the flipping of a calendar page. I do, though, set goals. Here are … Continue reading
The Millennium Falcon Flies Again!
Unless you live in some kind of cave, you’re aware that there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out in a year, and that the first teaser trailer erupted upon the world today. And if you’re not aware of those … Continue reading
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What a bunch of A-holes.
If I were to offer a capsule review of Guardians of the Galaxy, it would be this: It’s the first movie that I have seen twice in a theater since Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. That means … Continue reading
Adventures on Twitter: #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly
That was the hashtag someone unleashed upon the world last night, and it resulted in a lot of fun tomfoolery as you tried to sum up film plots, in 140 characters, in ways that don’t really do very good justice … Continue reading
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Responding to Bonding
A while back, Michael May started an exploration of James Bond, by going back to Bond’s literary roots. In the inaugural post, Michael mentioned a couple of Bond-related podcasts, one of which I’ve been listening to semi-regularly for the last … Continue reading
Shorter Jeff Simon
“In any article I write about Roger Ebert, half the words will be about how I hate Gene Siskel and that teevee show that proved that they were both better critics on teevee than I’ll ever be in print.” Seriously, … Continue reading