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• Silver Linings Checkbook

  

  Film: Joy Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on The New Portable. I’m getting close to the end of the Oscar movies on my various lists, which means that,... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 2007

  

  The Contenders: Viggo Mortensen: Eastern Promises Tommy Lee Jones: In the Valley of Elah George Clooney: Michael Clayton Johnny Depp: Sweeney Todd: The Demon... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blue is the Drippiest Color

  

  Film: The Blue Veil Format: Internet video on the new internet machine. For a number of years, I’ve been under the opinion that there are some movies on the... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 1932-1933

  

  The Contenders: Frank Lloyd: Cavalcade (winner) Frank Capra: Lady for a Day George Cukor: Little Women What’s Missing What the hell, Oscar? Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• By My Age, They Tend Toward Bitter.

  

  Film: Sweet Bird of Youth Format: Turner Classic Movies on big ol’ television. I have, in a sense, painted myself into a corner with the length of the reviews... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: Opera

  

  Film: Opera Format: DVD from NetFlix on Sue’s Mother’s Day present. So I think it’s something I can say now officially—I don’t like Italian horror. It’s... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 2013

  

  The Contenders: 12 Years a Slave (winner) American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena The Wolf of Wall Street What’s... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Project Runway

  

  Film: Phantom Thread Format: Blu-Ray from DeKalb Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. With Phantom Thread, there is really a single story to be told. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 1953

  

  The Contenders: The Band Wagon The Desert Rats The Naked Spur Take the High Ground! Titanic (winner) What’s Missing I have to admit I was a bit nonplussed by th... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

  

  Film: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Format: DVD from personal collection on The New Portable. While I love a good horror movie, I can’t admit that... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Dickens of a Story

  

  Film: David Copperfield Format: Turner Classic Movies on big ol’ television. My mother is a big fan of the work of Charles Dickens. I’m not; I think it’s eviden... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Adapted Screenplay 1961

  

  The Contenders: Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Guns of Navarone The Hustler Judgment at Nuremberg (winner) West Side Story What’s Missing I’ve evidently seen fewer... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Obligatory Shocking Blue Reference

  

  Film: Venus Format: DVD from NetFlix on The New Portable. Frequent readers of this blog will know that one of the things I take a stand on is the May/December... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 2002

  

  The Contenders: Renee Zellweger: Chicago Julianne Moore: Far from Heaven Salma Hayek: Frida Nicole Kidman: The Hours (winner) Diane Lane: Unfaithful What’s... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: The Creeping Flesh

  

  Film: The Creeping Flesh Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. It’s hard not to love Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee films from the ‘50s throug... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: The Mummy (1999)

  

  Film: The Mummy (1999) Format: DVD from personal collection on The New Portable. Brace yourself, folks; I’m going to get effusive here for a few minutes. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• My Wild Irish Rows

  

  Film: The Field Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on The New Portable. I think it’s easy to think of Richard Harris as his last roles. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1971

  

  The Contenders: Chaim Topol: Fiddler on the Roof Gene Hackman: The French Connection (winner) George C. Scott: The Hospital Walter Matthau: Kotch Peter Finch:... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: American Mary

  

  Film: American Mary Format: DVD from NetFlix on The New Portable. I am a fan of the horror genre and have been for decades, but there are things that bother... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 1943

  

  The Contenders: Michael Curtiz: Casablanca (winner) Ernst Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait Clarence Brown: The Human Comedy George Stevens: The More the Merrier Henry... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES