Category Archives: Movies / TV

Lady Snowblood (1973) 修羅雪姫 – Movie Trailer – Far East Films

February 21, 2025 – 10:23 am

From ALMOST A DEAD MAN The casino at Hamburg’s Hotel-Intercontinental was quiet on weekday afternoons. The only action was a solo woman at the roulette table and a Japanese businessman playing baccarat. The head executive in a Savile Row suits displayed no emotion, as his fingers slashed down like samurai sword to take a hit. […]

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The World Of Suzie Wong / Movie

June 13, 2024 – 10:46 am

In 1960 Nancy Kwan earned a Golden Globe nomination for her title performance in THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG. Once a month my Irish grandmother took my older brother and me to the Loew’s Orpheum in Boston. I was eight. Nana was an indeterminate age, having claimed to have been born in the Year of […]

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October Crow Screening

June 3, 2024 – 8:27 pm

Dr Neil Nepola. Three nights ago an audience of fifty young peple showed up for the first screening of OCTOBER CROW. The crowd were mostly tgere for Brigette who is a star. But my dear friend of fifty-four years was drivinf from Staten Island. He was running late. To stall tge impatience of the young, […]

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CENTURION / 2010

May 5, 2024 – 1:59 am

Latin was a required language for the top classes of Xaverian Brothers High School during the 1960s. The first ancient words learned by freshmen were ‘amo, amas, amat’ and ‘agricola’.The former was the verb to love and the latter meant farmer which was one of the few male nouns with a female ending. My teacher […]

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Oliver Stone Film Stop in Chiang Mai – 2007

April 7, 2024 – 6:28 am

My hillbilly girlfriend and I moved to the East Village in 1978. The twenty-two year-old blonde actress came from West Virginia and I hailed from New England. Alice was in the theater like Bill, our upstairs neighbor. I wrote poetry. One day Bill announced that he had been cast in a western called HEAVEN’S GATE. […]

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