You’re in for some good listening. Those are all terrific albums and while I’ll always be partial to the first “Switched On” record, her Brandenburg concertos are fantastic. If you still have an appetite for more of her work down the road you might check out her work on “A Clockwork Orange” (not the soundtrack album,…

I’ve cone to the conclusion that “The Snyder Cut” refers to Zack’s lifelong trauma over being circumcised. It explains so, so much...

A “culture of elitism and handouts.” That pretty much describes any day’s worth of A.V. Club articles (with far lower standards and far, far lower tastes.)

I read the Paul Theroux novel when it was published and thought it was a terrific read, one of the few novels that has stayed with me through the decades. I was already a Peter Weir fan from “The Last Wave” and “Picnic at Hanging Rock” as well as (to a lesser degree) “The Year of Living Dangerously” and thought he was…

Everyone, stop what you’re watching and put on “To Be or Not to Be.” You'll be astonished. 

Absolutely fantastic story. By far one of the best since the pandemic kicked in. I feel like Oliver Twist, "More please?"

The space race effectively unfolded and promptly died within the confines of my childhood and I, like a lot of kids, was obsessed with it and heart broken when we threw all our dreams away. I honestly can’t imagine a show better tailored for me but after a quick sampling I realized that the series not only fulfilled…

Wow, that ship sailed three/four (?) years ago. That’s 20 years in TV viewer years.

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I hope the Hell-crows pluck at his eyes and tongue for all eternity.

Don’t forget the has-beens. Lots of has-beens.

This is my favorite version of the Jimmy Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn standard. The jazz purists I used to work with complained that Scott’s voice was past his prime by this point but I always felt that the fragility and flaws in his voice here added an extra dimension. I’ve never quite bought a ballad by anyone who didn’t…

That Pinkerton/Lincoln movie was already made in 1951 as “The Tall Target,” starring tough guy Dick Powel and directed by the always reliable Anthony Mann. It’s a terrific little thriller that has the distinction of being the sole example of its own genre: Civil War Noir.

Well, “The King & I” was problematic to me as a middle-American kid when it was an annual feature on network television although it is still entertaining despite itself. The earlier Rex Harrison take is even worse although the Bernard Herrmann score is revelatory and groundbreaking.

I was just thinking about Julia Ormond the other day and wondering what she was up to. I don’t usually pay much attention to actresses, even the most beautiful ones, but she was just captivating in the 90s, one of the few women who radiated such beauty that I actually felt a tinge of painful longing watching her.

No love for Carlton?

The glaciers that carved out the Great Lakes also scoured Michigan of any dinosaur fossils but we do have our share of Mammoth and Mastodon remains. I’d be content with either of them but considering our state animal (the wolverine) isn’t even indigenous to the state I'm sure we'll pick something inappropriate.

I grew up in the wake of the whole fusion scene but I had roommates in college whose older brothers were fans so I picked up a good dose of it third hand. For a few years it seemed like this was going to be the future of music (this was when classical radio stations were playing Keith Jarett’s Koln Concert album) but …

If this movie ever gets made the script will be rewritten considerably because film conventions, particularly dialogue, have changed so much since it was first typed. Not only that, directors these says are so full of themselves they’ll want to inflict their “vision” on it.