Category Archives: Movies / TV

Back To Star Trek

May 19, 2017 – 12:24 pm

According to the intro to the original STAR TREK TV series ‘Space is the final frontier’. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise voyaged through the Cosmos from 1966 to 1969 Several Star Trek series followed the original, but in 2005 ENTERPRISE was not renewed, despite fans raising $32 million to finance […]

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Mishistory of STAR TREK

May 19, 2017 – 6:26 am

Hollywood has no respect for history. Writers redraft the flow of time according to filmgoers’ demographics. I don’t really mind these idiots placing the discovery of America at the same year as Mel Gibson’s APOCALYSO or the non-existence of emperors in GLADIATOR, however the heresy of the most recent STAR TREKs should be considered heresy […]

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The Whites Of Mayberry

March 27, 2017 – 11:20 pm

Several years ago Andy Griffith, star of stage and screen, passed away years after Marilyn Monroe with whom he shared the same birthdate. The North Carolina native debuted as a hick comedian from the wrong side of the tracks and Griffith parlayed this success into a film career with critical hits in A FACE IN […]

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89th Academy Awards

February 26, 2017 – 2:33 pm

Everyone in the Arts dreams about the Oscars. Actors, directors, producers, actresses, writers, musicians, make-up artists, cinematographers, costumers et al. I know I’m leaving out someone, but who doesn’t in an Academy Awards acceptance speech. Even I once held such dreams, but tonight I’ll be watching the Boston Celtics versus Detroit. I have no dreams […]

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NIGHT PORTER

February 19, 2017 – 5:43 am

The Third Reich had disappeared in 1945, but the images of its death camp horrors have gripped the imagination of filmmakers and holocaust survivors beyond the death of Hitler, but in 1974 Italian director Liliana Cavani explored the reincarnated sadomasochistic relationship between a SS officer and her concentration camp sex slave played by Charlotte Rampling. […]

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