I genuinely can’t say if I liked this film or not. I can at least say I didn’t dislike it. My reaction was more a neutral ‘Oh, a Warren Beatty star vehicle’. Something to let play on background in the afternoon while you’re doing your housework. I just did a quick search form film of 1978 and... wow, it was a pretty…

Planning for ‘global power projection’ while a certain unnamed president (lets call him ‘Individual 1’) systematically dismantles the influence, prestige and moral authority of the US around the globe. Its like purchasing a fancy sportscar after your driver’s license has been suspended. Under present circumstances…

I recall, mere weeks before the #MeToo movement got started, the series ‘Crazy Ex girlfriend’ had an unfortunate storyline where the heroine Rebecca got revenge on her ex boyfriend Josh by getting slanderous lies about him posted to a social media blog site. Everyone believed the lies because ‘its on the internet’ and…

Pop culture... Hmmm... let me think...

The story gets even weirder. Barr said Trump fired the guy. Trump himself said he had nothing to do with it. That means Barr usurped the powers of the presidency and forged the unlawful firing of a public official as part of a political vendetta.

Infamous Jack Nicholson line at the start of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’: “She was fifteen years old goin’ on thirty five, doc, and she told me she was eighteen”

It wasn’t a decade ago that the big ‘pop-feminism’ talking point was. “Its our bodies, we can sleep with whomever we want and its none of your damned business!’ The one caveat, apparently, is the guys you’re choosing to bonk should have a less skeevy agenda than you about it. I jokingly called this ‘drunk college…

Traveling, performing before audiences, and infected with the virus. The name ‘typhoid Mary’ comes to mind. There’s growing evidence the much-feared ‘2nd wave’ is now on its way and this time its infecting younger adults. You know, the types who would go to a comedy club in the middle of a pandemic.

I’m reminded of that line spoke by John Huston in the film ‘Chinatown’: “Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”

Fred MacMurray played an epic asshole in this film. It rather reminds me of tales of his prima donna behavior on the set of the series ‘My Three Sons’ which also premiered in 1960.

Here’s the full After Life film, the print is a bit worse for wear after 32 years.

I recently saw his 2009 film ‘Air Doll’ starring Doona Bae (Sense 8) as a blow-up sex doll come to life who gets a job in movie rental store.

Ahhhhh.... After Life was my first ‘favorite’ Asian film.
After it showed up in the US I obtained a video tape (?) of it and watched it countless times. It is definitely worth viewing. Fun fact, the original title translates to ‘Its A Wonderul Life’ which of course would have copyright issues in the US.

His work in the John Lacarre spy miniseries ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ opposite Alec Guiness was outstanding, I recall

My very first memory of Holmes is him playing Puck in ‘A Midsummer nights Dream’ opposite a Dianna Rigg and a young Helen Mirren in 1968. Here’s a naked Judy Dench from the same film.

Back in the ‘70s I recall I worked with a young woman who was basically a plaything for the married salesman in the company, very much like the MacLaine character. Now that I think of it, she was also the mistress of Bill O’Reilly back when he was nothing but a Boston area sports reporter. Once O’Reilly called her…

Just a couple days ago I learned that the lead in a comedy series I watched last year got convicted and sent to prison for two years for the lurid sexual assault of two female employees of his talent agency. He had offered to settle out of court but the women were NO, send this MF’s ass to prison for what he did! The…

This is one of those films that made me think the English language doesn’t have enough terms for genres of films. I’ve seen so many films that got labeled ‘comedies’ because there was no other term to be applied. Was Bill Murray’s ‘Broken Flowers’ really a comedy? Is this really a comedy?

I recall someone once quipped that muscle man body-building is ‘drag’ for straight people. I would imagine the Clark Kent/Superman dichotomy can be read as ‘in the closet/out of the closet’. Superman is unique in that ‘Clark Kent’ is the secret identity while Superman is his true self, just the opposite of most…

Snider made ‘300' fourteen years ago and been riding its coat tails ever since.