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Viewing Diary: February

Posted on March 4, 2023 by ksedinger

Here are some random notes and thoughts on things we watched in February: Teevee: If you’re not watching Abbott Elementary, I really don’t know what you’re doing with your life. I was getting kind of tired of the whole “workplace documentary” … Continue reading →

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Recent Watching….

Posted on January 30, 2023 by ksedinger

I’ve drifted away from tracking things we’ve watched in recent years here, so I’m going to start getting back to it. Teevee: Kaleidoscope (Netflix): This is a heist show that tells a pretty standard heist story: a guy wants to … Continue reading →

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If you know, you know.

Posted on January 18, 2023 by ksedinger

Happy birthday, Cary Grant. To this day, people say, “Oh so-and-so’s the new Cary Grant.” Cary Grant was acting in 1930. We’re talking 70 years ago. Almost 80 years ago, and we’re still referring to people as the “new Cary … Continue reading →

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The Chairman of the Board will see you now.

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

    Sheila O’Malley has a typically lovely post about Frank Sinatra, whose birthday is today. I started composing a comment on her site, but then I realized that my thoughts were getting away from me, so I decided to … Continue reading →

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Stayin’ Alive!!!

Posted on November 20, 2022 by ksedinger

Oy, I don’t want to talk about snow. Let’s talk about the opening of Saturday Night Fever! And yes, I’m serious, because it’s one of the best movie openings ever, and not just because it has a few famous shots or … Continue reading →

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“An awful waste of space”: CONTACT at 25

Posted on July 27, 2022 by ksedinger

The movie Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s one and only one novel, came out this month in 1997. Almost ten years ago I posted the following piece about the movie, a film that I’ve always liked and admired but not quite … Continue reading →

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“Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today, I’m an amateur.” (David Warner, TIME AFTER TIME)

Posted on July 25, 2022 by ksedinger

Actor David Warner has died. Warner was a very prolific actor; bring up his filmography and you’ll be scrolling for quite a while. While he was usually not a lead, he was more than a “character actor”. Warner brought gravity, … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

I first wrote this post in 2008, back in the days of Byzantium’s Shores. I repost it now on the occasion of Harrison Ford’s 80th birthday.   Sheila waxes poetic on one of my favorite movies, Witness. (Yeah, I didn’t rank … Continue reading →

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“Think classy, and you’ll BE classy!”

Posted on May 23, 2022 by ksedinger

Speaking of Bull Durham, here’s something I saw last week on The Athletic: Bull Durham has been my favorite baseball movie for pretty much forever (receipts!), so this particular promotion just makes me incredibly happy. It refers to one of the movie’s many … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on May 10, 2022 by ksedinger

A suite of film music today! We watched Avatar the other night, our first time watching it since we first saw it when the DVD came out after the movie’s initial release, way back in 2009 or 2010 or so. The … Continue reading →

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