Category Archives: Movies
Changing Times
Category Movies, Reviews
If you’ve been a reader of my columns for years, then you know that every once in awhile, I’ll turn on the look-back machine to find some song, movie, or era that I can connect to something here in the present. Nearly 46 years ago, in October of 1963, a young singer-songwriter, poet-musician sat down [...]
The Frontiers Within Us
Category Art, Movies
The neighbors are on the warpath. What’s a homesteader to do? You carve out and clear a swath of land from the forest – back breaking work to say the least – then you struggle to put up a house, capture and save water, and grow a few meager crops. It’s an ongoing battle to [...]
What Do The Papers Say?
Category Movies
So today being Friday, a day when many if not most motion pictures open in the movies houses, I went to the movies. I saw The Soloist today, and only a few days ago, I had gone to see State of Play, which I’ll discuss later.
Colors: Past and Present
Category Art, Movies
It is early 1969. The colorful word counter-culture had begun to creep into your consciousness. Your name is Dennis Hopper. You are 33 years old and have a growing acting career. But you haven’t gotten ‘there‘ yet. Stardom is still around a few more corners. Somehow you, fellow actor Peter Fonda, along with writer Terry [...]
Babes and Bullets: Will I Get Lucky or Will I Get Shot
Category Movies
Let’s flashback for a moment to the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry. Eastwood as the eponymous ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan has the drop on a wounded bank robber. Harry loves his weapon — the Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum — nearly as much as he loves using it. Well, Harry taunts and tempts the criminal [...]
Ships At Sea In The Movies & Art plus Three Captain Jacks
Category Art, Discussion, Movies
Since water constitutes about 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and is essential to all known forms of life, it is a safe bet to assume that if you are reading this you have access to water on a daily basis and you likely live near a body of water. Given that many of you [...]
And Never the Twain Shall Meet
Category Discussion, Movies
The recent tragic news from Mumbai, formerly Bombay, regarding the terrorists attacks, has again turned my thoughts toward the world’s largest democracy. Apropos of Bombay, long ago, Rudyard Kipling, the British writer, who was born in Bombay wrote: Mother of Cities to me, For I was born in her gate, Between the palms and [...]