Yes; but each reason only applies to some people.
A reason to vote R Continue reading…
Archive for October, 2006
As everyone that cares already knows, the St. Louis Cardinals took the 2006 World Series, four games to one.
It was a good series to watch. Only the first game came close Continue reading…
A remake of Philadelphia Story; so I won’t repeat the synopsis. The differences:
1. It is done as a musical. They even drag Louis Armstrong in Continue reading…
We are asked to support Bush’s War because of evil Saddam Hussein.
The War was justified by a sequence of statements by Bush that have proven false or unwarranted. By unwarranted, I mean Continue reading…
Filmed for 3-D glasses, as one can easily observe; however, the technique had just gone out of fashion when the movie hit the theatres.
Divorced Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson have a Taming of the Shrew like interaction. The story, a play-within-a-play, is actually based on Continue reading…
Booze, broads, and brawling, that’s life! could be the subtitle.
Two brothers, one bound by duty and honor, the other sensuous and libertine, Continue reading…
Normally, one assumes the Atlanta Braves will win the National East. This year, they fumbled. But the Mets were ready Continue reading…
Just to show how quickly things changed, in this movie Humphrey Bogart got fifth billing, being edged down the list not just by Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, but two others! Continue reading…
For despot he is. So says constitutional scholar, Jonathan Turley. He said this last night on Keith Olbermann’s program. You can watch it here. His full statement is worth pondering.
“People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is Continue reading…
The modern high-rise, impersonal megapolis has been created by dominant capitalist Fredersen (Alfred Abel) along with his evil inventor Rotwang (Klein-Rogge). The capitalist and his “court” live up high, in a place of godlike, Olympian imagery. Continue reading…
Max Renn (James Wood) is looking for something to boost ratings of his local TV station. His aid “discovers” the Videodrome, supposedly by intercepting a satellite feed from the Orient. The Videodrome is ultra S/M pornography. Renn becomes fascinated, then addicted to it, and goes on a quest to get the rights to add it to his station’s programming. Continue reading…
Original German Der Untergang.
No idea how this movie slipped through the crack for most of us when it came out. It is wonderful, terrible, everything a movie should be. Continue reading…
To understand politics, one must understand origins. And the Republican Party cannot be understood without understanding Abraham Lincoln. Continue reading…
This quote is from Keith Olbermann on the October 12 broadcast of MSNBC’s Countdown. In a report that featured excerpts from the soon to be released book, Tempting Faith, by the former number-two man in Bush’s office of “faith-based initiatives,” David Kuo, Olbermann reveals what should have been obvious Continue reading…
Last silent by Charlie Chaplin. He is the Little Tramp who thinks he may have a chance with a pretty flower girl, because she is blind! Seeing her threatened with eviction, Chaplin is motivated to take on crazy jobs, as well as hope for money from an on-again off-again friendship with a rich man; all setting up for lots of slapstick.
There are the hints of debauchery that are usual for films of this era.
