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Spinning Plates: Part 2
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Read more: Spinning Plates: Part 2Jagger in Performance (1970) & Ned Kelly (1970) Art and commerce have a weird relationship. On the face of it, it makes perfect sense to slap a pop star into a feature film, sit back and watch his or her fans gobble up the tickets. Who needs marketing when you’ve got a built-in audience? Such…
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Spinning Plates: Part One
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Read more: Spinning Plates: Part OneFrom Bing Crosby’s silky crooning in The Road to Singapore to Mark Wahlberg’s seven-inch, floppy rubber cock in Boogie Nights, it’s clear that the musical stars of the day have always fancied their big screen chances. Perhaps after topping the charts it’s the most natural of moves. Then again, maybe such success merely prompts their…
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QuickBooks Cloud Hosting – What Sets Top Hosting Solutions Apart?
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Read more: QuickBooks Cloud Hosting – What Sets Top Hosting Solutions Apart?QuickBooks is one of the most progressive and popular accounting applications for businesses of all sizes. The software has been easing the work for finance groups, accountants, and bookkeepers for years. It comes with the functionality to manage accounting, payroll, payments, inventory, and much more. For QuickBooks Desktop users, Apps4Rent can activate the Cloud for…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 37
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 37Movie: The Color of Money I can’t add a lot to Dave Franklin’s article on Tom Cruise, in which he covered the excellent movie The Color of Money. This film is of course the sequel to Paul Newman’s classic Hustler. With a movie starring these two superstars, the memorable scenes were bountiful, especially considering that…
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Good God, What Were You Thinking, Girl?
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Read more: Good God, What Were You Thinking, Girl?There’s an extraordinary scene at the end of the pretty good 1981 slasher Eyes of a Stranger in which Jennifer Jason Leigh’s blind deaf-mute character has just regained her sight after being sexually assaulted and beaten in her home by a serial killer. The teenager has managed to turn the tables and shoot the vicious…
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30 Odd Years Of Walken: Part 3
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Read more: 30 Odd Years Of Walken: Part 3The least conspicuous turd in Batman Returns (1992) I think I’m on record disliking superhero movies. No, hating them. In Batman Returns I’m supposed to buy into a deformed dwarf crime boss having been raised by penguins in a sewer. Oh, and the dowdy, timid secretary Michelle Pfeiffer is pushed out of a high window…
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Shotgun Wedding
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Read more: Shotgun Wedding“Shotgun Wedding” – Just shoot me. Yes, I voluntarily attended a screening of a movie called Shotgun Wedding. Yes, I willingly devoted two hours of my life to a film starring Jennifer Lopez and that guy that plays that one soldier in the Transformers movies (Josh Duhamel). Yes, I knowingly watched a movie that Lionsgate…
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A Love Song
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Read more: A Love SongFaye (Dale Dickey) lives alone in a trailer currently parked at a campsite overlooking a view so gorgeous it’s hard to believe it is real and not a matte painting of the type employed as background in old Hollywood westerns. She lives simply, always finding the perfect song for the moment on her old transistor…
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Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part 2
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Read more: Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part 2A mainstream pat on the back in A View to a Kill (1985) Not too many actors get to play a Bond megalomaniac, but Walken was happy to dye his hair blonde and give things a whirl. Did he do a good job? Hmm, well, he’s Max Zorin, the product of some WW2 Nazi experimentation…
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Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part One
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Read more: Thirty Odd Years Of Walken: Part OneBy 1991 Christopher Walken was a major star, having secured a place in pop culture with his Oscar-winning Deer Hunter turn. Yet watch him drift through that year’s little-seen All-American Murder clad in a leather jacket and a fixed expression and you have to wonder what the fuck’s going on. Surely an actor of such…