Category Archives: Movies / TV

Ben Gazzara RIP

February 5, 2012 – 7:18 am

The actor Ben Gazarra passed away last week. He starred in TV and movies for over sixty years, but I will always remember him from his staggering honest role as a luckless LA strip club owner. The 1976 John Cassavetes film opens with Cosmo Vitelli paying off a gambling debt to a loanshark at a […]

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A DANGEROUS METHOD – MOVIE

February 3, 2012 – 9:30 am

This past month in Thailand I bought a number of DVDs from the bootleggers in Sri Racha and Bangkok. The quality of each one was less than 90%, but at my house the TV is tuned to either Thai TV or my son Fenway’s cartoons, so I retreat to our bedroom to view the poorly […]

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Ken Russell RIP

November 28, 2011 – 1:01 pm
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In the Words of Albert Finney

October 30, 2011 – 7:36 am

Few films are as bittersweet romantic as the comic road movie TWO FOR THE ROAD starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. The two play star-crossed lovers traveling throughout Europe. Their honeymoon brings them to a country hotel in France, where they observed older couples speechlessly dining together. “What kind of people don’t speak to each […]

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Live Long and Prosper LOL

October 29, 2011 – 1:49 pm

Q: How many Klingons does it take to change a lightbulb? A: TWO: One to screw it in, and one to stab the other in the back and take all of the credit. Q: How many Klingons does it take to change a lightbulb? A: NONE: Klingons aren’t afraid of the dark. Q: What do […]

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