Link Farm Tango

Another small but choice crop of discoveries found moping around the Wide, Wide World of Bloggery:

Terminator: Salvation has gotten rave reviews from some unexpected quarters.  Seems that the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise has brought a famous, reclusive author out of his seclusion.  Seems J.D. Salinger has been a Terminator junkie ever since he [...]

Link Farm of the Purple Sage

Link farms.  That’s what posts like this are.  Links sewn in the fertile ground of the blogosphere in hopes they will sprout . . . what?   Other links to your blog?   More bloggy flavor on the likes of Digg and D.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s. or however you spell them?  In my cynical little heart,  in the blackest [...]

Counting Down the Naughties

My friend Ibetolis has a cool thing going over at Film for the Soul. He’s counting down the 2000’s in film.  How it works is he takes a year and invites any and all to provide a write-up on a movie from that year.  He’s into the 2001’s at present, and a piece I published [...]

Willie King, 1943 – 2009

I don’t normally stray far from the movies, but I just had to comment on a tremendous loss to us here in Tuscaloosa, and to the music world in general. Internationally-known bluesman Willie King passed away last Sunday — Sunday week as we say around here — near his home in Old Memphis, Alabama.  Not [...]

Best Picture Hunt Foiled: Film at Eleven

So, I’m doing my usual pre-Oscar scramble — you know, trying to see as many nominees as I can (even though Fox told me not to) — and I’m doing worse than usual.  Looks like that unless a Landmark theater gets plopped down right next door to the Crimson Tide Laundromat on the Strip, I’ll [...]

Slumdog Smackdown, Continued

The Daily Telegraph reports that the actors who played Latika and Salim early in the film, are living in conditions very much like those of their characters. [...]

Slumdog Smackdown

Seems some in India are getting a mite testy now that Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” has finally opened there. [...]

Dardos-like Behavior

I am the proud recipient of one of the premiere awards in the blogosphere, the Dardos. I am humbled. Humbled and proud. Aren’t those two things [...]

TOERIFC is Upon Us!

Mosey on over to Marilyn Ferdinand’s joint to get a load of her post on “The True Meaning of Pictures,” an absolutely fine documentary on, well, the true meaning of [...]

Another Year-end List That’s Not Mine

Here’s the annual Village Voice/L.A. Weekly critics poll. Some think critics’ polls are more subject to group think than individual lists. Others think people who say that are the ones who don’t get to vote in the [...]