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Month: November 2015
Movies, Neglected Cinema
John Carpenter’s The Fog is a lesser effort by the great filmmaker
I really want to like John Carpenter’s The Fog. I really do. I’m a huge fan of the filmmaker, and will praise his artistry and imagination to anyone who will listen (I am a staunch defender of his underrated Price…
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Today’s album: The Nightfly (on vinyl), by Donald Fagen.
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Roger Moore’s Recipe for a Perfect Dry Martini ME: I’ll be trying this later. daringfireball.net/linked/2015/11…
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“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” tennessean.com/story/news/pol…
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It’s the happiest day of the year – Discount Halloween Candy Day!
Movies, My Quora answers, Orson Welles
Would a deal like the one Orson Welles got with RKO be possible today?
Not with any major studio, for a number of reasons. The first major reason is the media environment is much different now – Orson Welles was very very “hot” at the time from his work on radio and stage acting…
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My Interview with the UX Practitioner Series
Had the great opportunity to talk to Lauren Ventura for her UX Practitioner series – you can see the interview here – but I also wanted to crosspost the interview here – “for the record”, as it were. To start,…
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Howard Anderson Dead: ‘Star Trek’ Visual Effects Artist Was 95 hollywoodreporter.com/news/howard-an…
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Would watch another horror film for #Halloween but… morpheus awaits. Goodnight, folks.
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So, after a rewatch of #TheFog, gotta say… not John Carpenter’s greatest work. Fun, but not as good as his best.
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John Carpenter has a fetish about churches/places of authority under siege. See, um, almost all of his movies.
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Tom Atkins going around the back of the house to save the kid from #TheFog is so contrived. Cheesy, bad, but fun.
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Jamie Lee meets Tom Atkins 12 hours before… and now they are, like, a couple? More ridiculous than zombie pirates. #TheFog
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Pj Soles needs to be in more movies. We need ‘hot cyncial brunnettes’ now more than ever. #TheFog
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OMG, Hal Holbrook in this movie. SOOOO good. #TheFog