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Just a brief note here since I trumpted my comeback and then have been quite inconsistent in my posting. I’m working on it. That’s all I can say. As I mentioned below, I actually did try to write about Miami Vice three times earlier this week, and I just really didn’t like what was comingContinue reading “THE STATE OF FOCUS”

Thank you Sony Pictures Classics. Let’s just start right there. A couple days ago, I received one of those large advertisement postcards in the mail. You know the kind — the ones that usually are offering some discount on a Broadway show or subscription to a magazine. Well, this one was from Sony Classics announcingContinue reading “I’M SURE I’M LATE WITH THIS, BUT HOW EXCITING”

Today is the opening of the 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival. Ah, I remember when I turned 10, (Hey, I do! Just go with me here), and how excited I was to enter the realm of double-digits. Suddenly, I really was a big boy. Well, now New York’s largest theater festival is aContinue reading “WELCOME TO DOUBLE-DIGITS FRINGE!”

I’ve been sitting here today trying to write the long-awaited why-have-so-many-critics-drunk-the-Michael-Mann-Kool-Aid post, but I’m just too exhausted. Today I had my first session with a trainer. I decided that before I turn 35 (which is shockingly way too soon), I have to stop being such a lazy slob. But talk about reality standing up andContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: A LITTLE HOUSECLEANING”

OK, so maybe that was a brief false start. But we’re not talking about it; we’re just moving on. So a couple years ago, I wrote this post mentioning how dismayed I was by news of Brian De Palma’s directing and casting for The Black Dahlia, an adaptation of the James Ellroy novel, which happensContinue reading “OH TO TORTURE MY SOUL AND MY EYES”

There’s too much stuff that’s happened since I last regularly posted here. I’m not going to address everything. Why deliberately bore you in only my second return post. I’ve got plenty of time to do that. But there are a couple things I thought I’d mention. Just in case you’re wondering, while I wasn’t writing,Continue reading “WHILE I WAS OUT”

Tah-dah! Here I am. Yes, right here. No I did not disappear forever, neither physically nor mentally. Somehow, I managed to, once again, find myself being ridiculous busy and not busy at all, seemingly at the same time. Don’t ask me to explain it … I can’t. All that’s important is that I am nowContinue reading “LET’S CALL IT A SABBATICAL (OR, HOLY CRAP, I HAVE A BLOG?)”

Oh sure, I’ve been hemming and hawing for months about how overrated I think Capote is, but that film gets a reprieve from my venom henceforth because the only award it won was the only award it deserved. Meanwhile, I had this horrible feeling as the night wore on that Crash was somehow going toContinue reading “THOUGHTS ON OSCAR: HEADLINE — UNDERDOG STEALS “MOST OVERRATED” TITLE FROM CAPOTE“

It’s a bit odd that the last post I wrote here (over a month ago) was apparently the 666th one. If I wasn’t a Jew and therefore pay no attention to the Book of Revelations, I might think that means something. But it doesn’t. Rather, I’ve just had that dreaded combo: dearth of inspiration andContinue reading “HI! HERE I AM! DIDN’T FALL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH … YET”

You know what I’m scared of? Well, a lot of things, actually, but that’s not the point right now. I love the modern multiplex as much as the next person — the projection and audio equipment is usually top notch, stadium seating allows everyone a clear view and most of them “allow” you to seeContinue reading “A FILM LOVERS DREAM? BAD TIDINGS? POSSIBLY BOTH”