November 2014
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The Perfection That is “Sherlock” Returns
Shooting on Season 4 begins in January. Such good news! And it looks like there will be a SHERLOCK “special” in addition to the season’s 3 regular episodes. I’m not sure what qualifies as a “special,” but any more of these two together qualifies as special-enough for me. I just finished turning my girlfriend, Emily, on to… Continue reading
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“SNOWPIERCER” May Be Terry Gilliam-Inspired, but It Lacks His Emotive Heart
Joon-ho Bong’s latest film, SNOWPIERCER is a mildly entertaining affair. It’s a fun sci-fi tale with some action and a cast of assorted characters, some more entertaining than others, but the film as a whole left me wanting. I enjoyed two of Bong’s previous films, THE HOST and MOTHER. Both dark films with an unusual humor… Continue reading
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The Fearless & Fearful Journeys of John Coltrane & the Grateful Dead
Music means so many different things to so many different people. There is such a wide variety of styles and approaches that to discount any form is to diminish the over all power of the art itself. In reading Richard Brody’s piece in the New Yorker, Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise,” I… Continue reading
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Bless the Brits: MASTERS OF CINEMA Calls it Like It Is
Bless the Brits. Here in the States, we seem to pride ourselves on our right to be ignorant. But the British MASTERS OF CINEMA series of DVD and Blu-ray releases, like THE CRITERION COLLECTION here in the U.S., cares about the integrity of the work it puts out there. MOC takes it to the next… Continue reading
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“ALL IS LOST” Is Everything “GRAVITY” Could Have Been And Wasn’t
It took me a little while, but I finally caught up with ALL IS LOST. I was curious about the film at the time it came out, but didn’t make it into theaters to see it and hadn’t found the right night to sit down and watch it streaming at home. Until last night. I’d heard… Continue reading
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Cumberland County and the Fall of ’83.
Ok, so this video doesn’t look great, BUT… I sometimes forget just how many amazing and high-energy Grateful Dead shows I managed to see. I missed seeing the Dead in the mid-70’s and as a result missed my favorite era for them live (I started seeing them in ’79), so sometimes I forget that I DID manage… Continue reading
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The Astounding Impulse of “JODOROWKY’S DUNE”
Passion. Vision. Insight. Inspiration. JODOROWKY’S DUNE is filled with all of these. The documentary directed by Frank Pavich explores the film that never was, but still managed to influence and even sculpt the following decades of popular cinema after the project itself had collapsed. For me, watching and listening to Alejandro Jodorowsky talk about why he wanted to make… Continue reading
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Linda Tirado is Long Overdue on Overtime
It feels so odd, so rare and so right when someone calls it like it is. Linda Tirado, who recently rose to fame (and climbed out of poverty as a result) after Penguin convinced her to write her book HAND TO MOUTH: LIVING IN BOOTSTRAP AMERICA, speaks her mind and thoughts on Bill Maher’s REAL TIME WITH BILL… Continue reading
About Me
Filmmaker, live music photographer, writer, film/video editor, acting teacher, traveler and political junkie who finally realised that the United States government and its two ruling parties has undergone what Chris Hedges refers to as “a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion.”
This site is dedicated to my thoughts, observations and inspirations regarding politics, film, photography and music.
Recent Posts
- Why Voting For Biden Or Trump In November Should Not Be An Option
- Toni Morrison, Howard Zinn, The Final Solution, Civil Disobedience and A History Repeating Itself
- The Voice of America: Biden and Blinken’s Open Condemnation of the ICC, Their Denial of Genocide and Their Distraction of “False Equivalence” Further Betrays The Depths of Ethical and Moral Rot Inherent In The Democratic Party of Today
- Norman Rockwell’s Fever Dream, The Negation of American Reality and This Week’s Reading, Viewing and Listening Recommendations
- Quote Of The Week: “We Celebrate Our Religion, Our Nation, Our Identity, Our Superiority, By Negating And Erasing Yours.”