Every once in a while my passions converge. Pardon me while I discuss one such intersection.
Category: reactions
Brief thoughts and recaps on films seen in theatres – usually in a festival environment. While no ratings are assigned, these reactions are sometimes expanded into full reviews later.
The city that bred legends like Henry Ford, Joe Louis, and Stevie Wonder is in crisis.
No matter how famous you become, sometimes you just can’t outrun your past.
If sex is everywhere, how is it that our attitude about sex is so damned screwed up?
The artists of the new millennium are every bit as tortured as the artists who came before.
It must have been so tempting to make a film for the fans. Happily, Stacy Peralta took a more nuanced approach and came up with pure joy.
The first surprise is how many new stories there are to be told about an icon like Bob Marley. The second surprise is that it has taken this long for such stories to be told at all.
There’s nothing like New Orleans as day turns into night…and even less like New Orleans as night turns into day again.
Try a little harder
Stop wasting over yonder
Wake up –
You’ll get your break…
Take your number and take a seat. This might take a while.
You know you’re writing a different sort of post when you start running out of synonyms for “penis”. As it happens, the subject of the post is one fantastic film.
Some great young musicians ride the rails and churn out some wonderful tunes as they do.