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Saw Death Race on HBO last night.  I have to admit, I enjoyed it, in a pure, guilty pleasure kind of way.  Careening cars, crack stunt driving, and sadistic guards.  What’s not to like? Jason Statham is the best action star going, no question, but what’s this thing about driving?  He seems type-type cast, [...]

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Critical detachment is difficult when you’re predisposed to like something, and I like Coen Brothers movies.  A lot.  I own every one of them except Burn After Reading, and I will probably get a copy of that eventually.  I even own The Ladykillers, which is the subject of this review.  And because I am one [...]

It’s TOERIFIC time again, and this time it’s If …, Lindsay Anderson’s 1968 indictment of British boarding-school life. Here’s how it works: a member picks a film, writes it up, then everybody talks about it over at his place.  The only thing we ask is that you’ve seen it  recently enough to comment upon it [...]

In 1946, Orson Welles was directing a musical stage version of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, of all things, when producer Mike Todd backed out.  For a while, Welles floated the production along on his own dime, but eventually he came up short, needing about $55,000 to get his costumes out of [...]

We’ve had an unusually stormy summer here in the Deep South.  They say that wandering current El Niño is to blame, and I for one am glad.  Because of the regular rain, our lawns are wonderfully green, and it hasn’t been nearly as God-awful hot as it can be.  Of course, all my relatives in [...]

Marilyn tagged me for a meme, and it’s a pretty good one, at that.  Basically it goes like this: name 15 favorite dancers from the movies. Her answers are here and mine are below.  Seeing as how I don’t know a lot about dancing, and probably couldn’t name 15 favorite movie dancers to save [...]