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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!
Humor But No Frivolity In “Inside Llewyn Davis”
It is a little hard to see the girl played by Carey Mulligan in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) as a slut, as she presumably is, but easy to believe she herself has a point in considering Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) a "loser." A merchant mariner struggling to become a...
Ain’t Exactly Legendary: “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”
I suppose children over the years have enjoyed the animated Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) but I, an adult, grew tired of it. The moral story is not that bad, but midway the disaster action gets too hokey, in my view, for grownups---something a big-screen...
Dave and Lucy Get Married!
Well the Hipster (me yeah whatever) - I got married. Holy matrimony.... Marital bliss and all that! Hey I found a great girl that sees the best in me and takes me for what I am. - A knucklehead. ---Really tho...She's awesome ---!! I just couldn't do any better. I...
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Is No B.S.
The noise made over drones and the NSA may well be fatuous,* but Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) projects these things into the future to do its scrutinizing, if that's what it is, of What Could Come About (beware). In light of this and the powerful...
I Won’t Take A Bullet For Stallone: “Bullet to the Head”
Presumably the makers of the 2013 crime thriller Bullet to the Head hoped to fashion something as entertaining as 24---a TV series which is flawed, exciting, good. Unfortunately, the movie they cranked out is flawed, exciting, bad, without any of the elements that...
The Old Masterpiece, “Mutiny On The Bounty” (1935)
I've never read Mutiny on the Bounty, but the '35 film version, for all the sappy-silly Tahiti material, seems a well-made and even felt adaptation. Captain Bligh is an expert seaman but also a mean fool, wanting only to impose his ruthless will. Charles Laughton...
Hipster Christianity?
I saw a blogger post a Hipster Christianity quiz on Facebook. What did I do? Well, you KNOW I had to go ahead and take the quiz. -- Do I qualify? NO…. What? Thats right folks….It told me I was only moderately hip or something. Can you believe those freakin guys?...
Meet “Monsieur Vincent,” A Priest (A 1947 French Film)
The year is 1617, and a new priest, Vincent de Paul, arrives in a French town which has had no priest for a long time. It shows. One of the themes of the 1947 biopic, Monsieur Vincent, is the demanding struggle of the clergyman to tame the unchurched, the brutish,...
Is Money the Root of All Evil?
Is money they root of all evil? People have been saying that for years... So why do so many people want it? Why is money the root of what drives most people. There is never enough of what we thought we wanted. Money.... MONEY..... MONEY Yes folks.... People are...
