Archive for the 'Movies' Category


A Man Called Ove

If movies were this good, I’d go every day. We were planning to go to the Reagan Library. I took my mom to lunch at an Indian restaurant in the West Valley. She’s here for the Jewish holidays. My sister recommended a place with a patio, but I can’t sit in the sun, the pill […]

Willy Wonka

It was a stiff upon release. It cost $3 million and grossed $4 million in a pre-home video era. In other words, it lost money, with only half of gross receipts coming back to the studio. Sure, there was television income, but this was pre-cable. No one knew the movie and no one knew the […]

The Twisted Sister Movie

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n roll. In Jay Jay French’s case, ten years. Dee Snider? From the time he joined it took six plus years to get a deal, and then the record company went bankrupt. I don’t care about Twisted Sister, I occasionally get e-mail from Jay […]

A Hard Day’s Night Live At The Hollywood Bowl

All Songs +1: The Beatles Are Live And Sounding Better Than Ever What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a fifty year old recording of a defunct band trumps the work of the modern masters? One in which most acts play to track in search of perfection and have lived […]