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These stories have been around a long time. Some of them I have updated. Many of them I haven’t. This started out when blogs were like, new!
Bucking Time: “Call Northside 777”
Henry Hathaway's Call Northside 777 (1948) stars James Stewart as a newspaper reporter, P.J. McNeal, who does enough digging on an eleven-year-old case to find out that a convicted cop killer (Richard Conte) is innocent. Many a person, especially a lying witness,...
“L’Avventura” and Its Missing Ones
In the landmark Michelangelo Antonioni film L'Avventura (1960), from Italy, the troubled young woman Anna (Lea Massari) disappears during a yachting party, never to be found. While searching for her, Anna's best friend Claudia (Monica Vitti) and her boyfriend Sandro...
An Adult Western That Actually Entertains: “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid”
Jesse James, as played by Robert Duvall, is too vicious a man to be a Robin Hood-like criminal, as the Duvall vehicle, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)---and pop legend---would have it. Amnesty is proposed for James and Cole Younger (Cliff Robertson) and...
She’s Swift To Bore Us
Taylor Swift's liberal politics are boring ("any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG"). But no wonder. Her music is moving in a boring direction too. Such songs as "Delicate" and "Dress" have their hooks, but they're wasted on...
Roy’s Going Down: “He Walked by Night”
The nocturnal robber in the 1948 He Walked by Night ends up murdering a police officer and thereby brings down on himself a load of professional energy for his seizure. Played by Richard Basehart in what is supposed to be a true story, Roy The Killer is a loner...
Mariska And Propaganda: “SVU”
The border separations of children from their illegal-immigrant parents are infinitely sad. The makers of Law and Order: SVU are probably very proud of last night's episode dealing with the matter, but they need not be. Regarding certain individuals, such as a...
Getting Mighty Limited: “The Darjeeling Limited”
The search for spiritual discovery needs a more sophisticated treatment than it gets from Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited (2007), very interesting though the film is for about an hour. The title refers to a "poshly anachronistic Indian train" (Ross Douthat)...
Republican’s Start Wars.
Now Isn't that Shirt Cool?Do republican's (like Dick Chaney) start wars? Wearing that one around here in Conservative Oklahoma would go over like a Led Zeppelin huh? I'd sign up and wear that around... No problem... But this poor blogger aint' got $17.50 to go...
Watching Bachelors And Bachelorettes In Their Paradise
The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise are crummy TV programs, as is The Bachelorette; they're offensive and phony. However, they do offer something to the male ego when they confirm that women still want to be loved (with eros) by men. And they offer something to...
