Category Archives: Movies / TV

GOING SOUTH

December 11, 2016 – 7:34 am

Several years ago I watched Charlotte Rampling on the BBC. The actress had been a fantasy of mine after seeing THE NIGHT PORTER and the 60-year-old was promoting her new film by Laurent Cantent’s HEADING SOUTH. This movie featured a rare examination of sex, lust, and lust set in Haiti of the 1970s and Charlotte […]

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Pepe Le Moko

August 29, 2016 – 1:17 pm

An ex-girlfriend from Paris saw this photo and remarked that I resembled the French actor Jean Gabin in PEPE LE MOKO. She wasn’t too far off. But I think it was the hair. I’m sitting in the 169. I wish it was on this wall. Algiers I think.

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TOUCH OF EVIL Opening Scene

August 25, 2016 – 12:51 pm

According to Wikipedia many critics considered Orson Welles’ three-minute, twenty-second tracking shot in TOUCH OF EVIL as one of the greatest shots in cinematic history, especially considering that it’s the opening scene. Here’s the synopsis. On the U.S.-Mexico border, a man plants a time bomb in a car. A man and woman enter the vehicle […]

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Exterminate Exterminate

July 24, 2016 – 7:58 am

Doctor Who’s arch-enemies, the Daleks, have been retired by the BBC. Their continual failure to achieve their mission of ultimate extermination downgraded the threat of the extraterrestial mutants. The studio hasn’t announced any plans for the retired aliens, but this year my landlord AP set up a mobile AC unit in my apartment for my […]

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Jed Clampett Rocks Out

June 8, 2016 – 6:54 pm

Nothing say don’t do it like an old man rocking out. Like Buddy Ebsen in THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. Jed Clampett was more Ted Nugent than Duane Allman. To see this travesty, please go to the following URL

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