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Tag Archives: Movies
A possibly depressing exercise
I’ve written of this before, but the names change every year, so let’s do it again! For me, when I think of an ‘old movie’, my brain always defaults to Casablanca, which by the time of my awareness of its … Continue reading
“This never-ending road to Calvary….” (Thoughts on Les Miserables)
It all comes back to Star Wars, doesn’t it? Even Les Miserables. What am I talking about? Well, back when The Phantom Menace came out, and initial reaction was somewhat mixed (before ossifying into outright hatred), I remember an article … Continue reading
Darth Abrams?
According to a number of media reports, JJ Abrams is directing the first Star Wars movie of the Disney era. I’m mostly fine with this — of all my myriad problems with Star Trek 2009, none of them were in the … Continue reading
In a hole in the ground, there lived….
I have to admit to feeling somewhat nervous about the prospects for the movie version of The Hobbit over the last few years. It’s a much more ‘filmable’ story than The Lord of the Rings, much more straight-forward in its … Continue reading
“Let the sky fall….”
On Thanksgiving Day, The Wife and I have a relatively new tradition of going to see a movie together after dinner (and sending The Daughter off packing with my parents). We’ve done this six of the last seven Thanksgivings, and … Continue reading
“We’ll always have Paris.”
Casablanca premiered seventy years ago today. Wow. I haven’t watched Casablanca in a while (checking the archives, it’s been too damned long, actually), so I think I may rectify that pretty soon. The making of Casablanca is so full of … Continue reading
ChikFlix
[A note from The Editor to Saturday Centus folks: I screwed up my link and linked the main page of the blog and not the Centus entry, so just scroll down to the very next post. Or read this one … Continue reading
Alien, Episode One: The Phantom Alien
So I watched Prometheus a week or two ago, and I’ve been struggling to come up with a reaction more nuanced than this, but…well, this is how I felt about it. Prometheus is a stunningly made film. It’s one of … Continue reading
Mabel
Today is the 120th birthday of Mabel Normand, silent movie comedy star and, according to some, the first person to launch a pie into another person’s face. This is likely not true, but I salute her nonetheless!
The Mouse and the Lightsaber: Random Thoughts on the Disney-Lucasfilm Deal
When I got home from work today, I walked in the door, took care of the mail, unpacked my lunchbox, changed my clothes, and checked the news…to learn that George Lucas has sold Lucasfilm to Disney…including Star Wars. This news … Continue reading