Good morning, I am working on my post for the Oh, Canada Blogathon but I wanted to take a moment to log some recent viewings, now with added dinosaurs. Jurassic World – dir. Colin Trevorrow – 5.6 – All of the joy of themes by John Williams with none of that pesky charm of the […]

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January 7th, 2004 was a chilly day. Bruce and I drove from his parents home downtown to sit is perhaps the worst seats in the house to see David Bowie. The stage was dressed with white trees and his full band. Around the halfway mark in the concert he stopped to gab and said that […]

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Mad Max: Fury Road dir. George Miller – 7.8 – This is the first Mad Max film I have watched. Sure, I’ve seen clips from the earlier ones but it never grabbed me.  If it was not for several friends telling me about the anti-patriarchy themes I may have passed over this one as well. I am […]

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Thoughts on The Orphic Trilogy, The Hundred-Foot Journey, a few Jean Vigo film, Blind Chance, and the Man Who Fell to Earth.

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