"And that’s all I’m going to say about that."
Call me a remake skeptic. Too often I’ve seen a beautifully told story from a French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, etc. director turned into a surface, shallow, ghost of the original story, sometimes bearing no more in common than the…
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Once upon a time well it was around 1996 in a job not so far away a co-worker of mine, Amy, said she had a CD she thought I’d like. We shared a lot of the same tastes in music….
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You are in the kitchen, the TV gets turned to a movie in progress, you can’t see it, but you can hear the music and within a few notes or measures you recognize the movie or movie series or at…
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I keep seeing vehicle model names that make me think “I sure wouldn’t want to drive around in THAT!” I’m not even talking about the merits, or lack of, of these as actual vehicles; I simply find the names so…
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I enjoyed Winter’s Tale. Mark Helprin is a writer I have a hard time finding the right adjectives for. His writing is beautifully captivating, magical yet true. I was at once excited to see this movie, yet almost expecting that…
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Did you toss a stick and follow where it pointed? Wander in the stick-determined direction until your internal child-clock said it was time for another toss? Or wander until the way was barred by insurmountable fence or other obstacle? “Other…
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