“You can’t be half a gangster Nuck.” The new TV season is underway. As always, The CW got out of the gate early, and for what seems like the first time in a while, the four major networks are all launching the vast majority of their new series during the exact same premiere week, beginningContinue reading “The new season: First Take — Boardwalk Empire“
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Miscellaneous Miscellany-Part 2: This is why we don’t call it a comeback; continued abstractions
“Tomorrow” became Friday due to the nastiness that always descends upon me this time every year. The air changes, the temperature drops, and sometimes (or at least yesterday), even the atmosphere decides it’s so sick and tired of remaining pleasant that it will shake-up things and cause crazy tornado/hurricane-like weather right here in the fiveContinue reading “Miscellaneous Miscellany-Part 2: This is why we don’t call it a comeback; continued abstractions”
Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1
I’m still hedging my bets. This habit stuff is hard. (That’s been my motto all year: THSIH. It rolls off the tongue.) As I mentioned yesterday, barely a day passes that I don’t encounter at least one thing prompting my internal voices to say, “I’m going to write about that.” In fact, I generally keepContinue reading “Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1”
Shana Tova — New Year’s revisited; Back in focus (yet again, for reals, etc)
Late last year, amidst all the media attention on the concluding decade coupled with the annual exercise in breaking the best-and-worst of life and culture into 365-day chapters, I wrote about the camel-back-breaking-straw to my 2009 and Aughts. Over the ensuing three weeks, I patiently waited for the new year and decade to arrive. InContinue reading “Shana Tova — New Year’s revisited; Back in focus (yet again, for reals, etc)”
Awards Weekend Wrap-up Part II: Partially previewing Oscar, so, not so much a wrap
The Oscars are just hours away, and as much as I look forward to watching while I participate in Greencine’s Oscar Night Live Blog likely arguing with several other smart film folks as to why my opinions are more right than theirs (because that’s what it comes down to for us all, no?), I currentlyContinue reading “Awards Weekend Wrap-up Part II: Partially previewing Oscar, so, not so much a wrap”
Awards Weekend Wrap-up Part I: Lamenting a lack of Spirit
This year’s Spirit Awards marked the first time in over a decade-and-a-half that my vote didn’t count. Considering how my “Will win” vs. “Should win” predictions panned out – I only missed the screenplay award; more on that later – it seems that my votes likely wouldn’t have made a huge difference in the massive,Continue reading “Awards Weekend Wrap-up Part I: Lamenting a lack of Spirit”
OOF Year-in-Review 2009: Top 10 films … adjacent
Uh … where was I. Really? Not so important. When I was so rudely interrupted by real-world endeavors, I was smack dab in the middle of expressing my love for any number of films released in 2009. I find it fascinating that such a crappy year (and awful decade) produced so many great films. Certainly,Continue reading “OOF Year-in-Review 2009: Top 10 films … adjacent”
OOF Year-in-Review 2009: Top 10 films of the year
The best film with a theatrical release I saw in 2009 was made in 1948. That’s not actually a knock on 2009, easily one of the stronger cinematic years this decade. But as I consider The Red Shoes to be among the top five greatest films ever made, I can’t ignore that the release ofContinue reading “OOF Year-in-Review 2009: Top 10 films of the year”
Blurring focus once again: Let the lists begin to roll
After a week filled with cramming and catch-up, I finally finished the first of my own lists. Best of the year. Best of the decade. My deadline was set by indieWIRE, and I’m a person who tends to do better with deadlines set by others. So … I got it done. It’s a fascinating exerciseContinue reading “Blurring focus once again: Let the lists begin to roll”
Punch me once, shame on me
It would be too easy for me to assume that some supernatural force, I shall personify as “The Universe,” continues to conspire against my attempts to create (re-create?) a writing habit and routine. For the past several months, I keep experiencing these huge blocks; in fact, let’s call them Great Walls, analogous to China’s. HurdlingContinue reading “Punch me once, shame on me”
Out of Focus 