Archive for the 'Movies' Category


tick, tick…BOOM!

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3z0MvXa What does it take to give up? I don’t remember a Christmas when I wasn’t skiing. Well, that’s not true, there was last year, and that year I got cancer, and all those years in between the seventies and 2005 when I was stuck in L.A., wondering what to do with myself when […]

Being The Ricardos

Movies didn’t used to be an event, they used to be a religion. Maybe if you’re young you can understand when I say that movies used to be streaming television, something we all watched and talked about that at its best tested limits and made us think. But movies aren’t like that anymore. Used to […]

The Failure Of West Side Story

Blame the movie industry. If you stop making adult films adults fall out of the habit of attending them. Yes, Hollywood is now for cartoon superheroes. Comedies are too risky, these conglomerates want a guaranteed return. They’re risk averse. Never in the history of the film business has it been less about art. As for […]

The Power Of The Dog

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3pCfkoz I thought it was based on the Don Winslow book. When I know I’m going to see a movie I don’t read the reviews. The unfolding experience is what entrances me, which is why I’m so pissed that trailers reveal so much. Then again, I never go to the movies anymore so I […]