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Oh Say Shall We Dance?
So I finally got around to watching the original Japanese version of Shall We Dance?. The US remake with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez is remarkably similar. Even for a remake. Of course, it’s more Hollywood. That is, everything is … Continue reading
She’s New in Town
Zellweger is such a great name! In New In Town she plays a Floridian corporate exec who’s transferred to frozen Minnesota. Hmmm. Doesn’t sound so good, does it? But think of it as Gung Ho meets A Prairie Home Companion‘s … Continue reading
Burn Simple Blood After Reading
So I saw the broadcast TV version of Burn After Reading. (The first Coen brothers film I ever saw was Blood Simple. IMDB says it came out in ’84, but it seems to me I saw it earlier than that. … Continue reading
Flashlight Fascination
I remember once when I was a kid and my parents threw some kind of party. I wasn’t invited. I was supposed to go to sleep early that night and remain in my bedroom all snug in my bed. After … Continue reading
Waitresses and Depression
When I was a teenager I was diagnosed with depression. Imagine my shock and surprise. I wanted to tell the doctor, “You’d be depressed too if everyone were out to get you!” But I was afraid he wouldn’t get the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, DVD, movie, recomendation, Waitress
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Skeleton Trespass
Over the last couple of years, both Amazon and Netflix have been telling me that I need to see Alien Trespass, a film that pretends to be a science fiction movie from 1957. It stars that guy from Will & … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien Trespass, Blamire, DVD, Lost Skeleton, movie, recomendation
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Fear & Rango in Las Vegas
Don Knotts. John Huston from Chinatown. Threatensome inbred bumpkins from Deliverance. Clint Eastwoods’ The Man with No Name. The yodeling from Raising Arizona. What else do you want from an animated movie? Oh, yes, Johnny Depp! And a cameo by … Continue reading
Scooby Who?
I used to be a Scooby-Doo expert. That is, there was a time when I could say that I’d seen every Scooby-Doo show multiple times, and was knowledgeable about every single story. But somewhere along they way, they lost me. … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, DVD, memory, movie, rant, recomendation, Scooby Doo
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What I Like About Foreign Films
Some people have problems with subtitles in movies. Not me. 5 minutes into the film, and I don’t even notice that I’m reading subtitles any more. They become invisible to me, and somehow I just know what they’re saying. It’s … Continue reading
Does Moses Have a Tree Named After Him?
The Joshua tree is a yucca plant that can play basketball. You can tell that it’s not just an unusually tall yucca plant because, unlike the yucca, it doesn’t have little white vegetal hairs growing on the leaves. Early Mormon … Continue reading
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Tagged camping, Joshua Tree National Park, recomendation
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