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Two for Tuesday
MediaBear
Posted in Art, culture, Humor, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Chinese White Spy Balloon Goes By, MediaBear, Own Nothing Be Happy
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Saturday Matinee: My Name is Nobody
By Richard T. Jameson Source: Parallax View [Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] Most people have been writing about My Name Is Nobody as though it were as unequivocally a Sergio Leone film as Once upon a Time in the West, Duck You Sucker, et al.; some reviewers … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cult Film, Ennio Morricone, Henry Fonda, Italian Cinema, My Name is Nobody, Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Western, Terence Hill, Tonino Valerii
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Saturday Matinee: Real Genius
By Roger Ebert Source: RogerEbert.com The movie involves the saga of Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a brilliant high school student whose Science Fair project has revised the theory of laser beam technology. He is personally recruited by Professor Hathaway (William Atherton), … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged comedy, Cult Film, Gabe Jarret, Martha Coolidge, Real Genius, Val Kilmer
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Saturday Matinee: Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Review — Don’t Forget To Breathe By Sergiu Inizian Source: Medium In 2016, Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (known collectively as Daniels) premiered their feature debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Swiss Army Man stunned audiences with a … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: Greener Grass
By Sheila O’Malley Source: RogerEbert.com There’s a scene in “Greener Grass,” written and directed by Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe (who also co-star), where four families in golf carts sit at a four-way intersection. Everyone gestures at everybody else: “You go,” “Oh, no, you … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged comedy, Cult Film, Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass, Jocelyn DeBoer, Paul Briganti
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Two for Tuesday
Bill McClintock
Posted in Art, culture, Humor, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Bill McClintock, Billy Idol, Bob Marley, James Brown, Rage Against the Machine
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Saturday Matinee: Wrong is Right
(An updated repost from June 29, 2019) “Wrong is Right” (1982) is an alarmingly prescient political satire directed by Richard Brooks and based on the novel ”The Better Angels” by Charles McCarry. Sean Connery stars as Patrick Hale, a popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles McCarry, Richard Brooks, sean connery, The Better Angels, wrong is right
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Saturday Matinee: Final Cut
REVIEW: “Final Cut” (2022) By Keith Garlington Source: Keith and the Movies It’s hard to believe that it has been twelve years since French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius won his Best Director Academy Award for the Best Picture winning “The Artist”. While … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Bérénice Béjo, Cult Film, Finnegan Oldfield, French Cinema, Gregory Gadebois, Horror Comedy, Matilda Lutz, Michel Hazanavicius, Romain Duris
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