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1993 Retrospective: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (d. Lasse Hallström) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:10 am
A/N: I shall do my best to roll these out with more urgency. Walter, my 1993 retrospective partner, has already taken a look at five Oscar categories of 1993. The first 1993 film I reviewed was not an...
1993 Retrospective: Dazed and Confused (d. Richard Linklater) 22 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
A/N: And, thus begins my journey to 1993 which I’m taking with Walter (Silver Screening Room). He’s parsing through the Oscar categories of the year at the moment. I’m relearning how to write film rev...
Looking through the keyhole....to 1993 17 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
Folks, I'm officially officially resuscitating this too long dormant blog. My not-quite-a-comeback comes for two reasons. On one hand, if I don't start writing regularly now I probably won't for an e...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Color Purple 15 Aug 2013 | 05:40 am
A bit of a preamble before I actually get to it: I ended up watching two important films concerning black performers and the Oscars this past week. First was Sounder, 1972 Best Picture nominee and the...
Personal Emmy Ballot: The Comedies, Part 2 28 Jul 2013 | 05:53 am
I am still (yes, still) acclimating to blogging life - more output in the new week, but meanwhile - continuing my Emmy catch-up. More on my favourites in the last TV season. I’m using the Emmy submis...
Personal Emmy Ballot: The Comedies, Part 1 24 Jul 2013 | 11:31 pm
Contain your excitement, I'm back to regular writing from today. Although the return is probably inauspicious. For, at least in theory, when one wishes to embarrass any award ceremony with showing th...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Mary Poppins 18 Jul 2013 | 06:47 am
Hello, blog. I have forsaken you for a long time. I was uncertain whether or not I'd participate in this week's Hit Me series for Nathaniel because even though he says we don't NEED to justify our ch...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Talented Mr Ripley 16 May 2013 | 06:27 am
I kept debating whether I’d even have time to write a timely Best-Shot entry for this, and I suspect I’ll be returning to this post later to annotate it with additional thoughts. (Aside to readers of ...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Summertime 9 May 2013 | 07:39 am
Who else but Katharine Hepburn to get me back to the blog? But what to say? Ever since my appreciation for Hepburn turned into full fledged obsession circa 2003 I’ve steadily investigated her filmogr...
Scene on a Sunday Monday: Erin Brockovich 8 Apr 2013 | 03:49 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-CARRIBEAN X-NONE X-NONE Apparently blogger conspired against me in auto-posting this last evening, so a few hours later makes this a scene on a Monday. Alas. On w...
