2,500 Movies Challenge:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
FYI. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is available as an Amazon Instant Video
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Showing posts with label Movies Music and Books. Show all posts
18 October 2017
2,500 Movies Challenge | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) (Reblog)
I love old movies. On the hunt for a recommendation and came across this movie review of "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" (1982) starring Steve Martin (of "Saturday Night Live" fame). This blog is published by "Dave" and he plans to review a total of 2500 movies. This reblogged movie review is Number 1060. It was posted in 2010. As of June 2014, he was still posting! So much for setting yourself an achievable goal.
FYI. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is available as an Amazon Instant Video.
2,500 Movies Challenge:
FYI. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is available as an Amazon Instant Video
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13 October 2017
JACK AND DIANE (2012): Saturday night movie pick? Watch at your own risk.
OK. OK! I get it! It's an awful movie. I'm convinced. Not gonna watch it. Not into horror movies anyway. Growing up, every Saturday AFTER 11 o' clock was the night to watch creepy scary horror movies. It wasn't a rule of my parents. It was a television programming decision made by our local stations that we all abided by. These days, occasionally, like if it's the Halloween season, a horror flick will be on my watch list. If a thorough critique and review of a horror film is needed, this is was my GO TO blog, "Written in Blood". Everything you need to know about horror films and some stuff you didn't even know you needed to know! Glad to have this blog to help me decide whether my time will be wasted or not. :) Saturday night movie pick? Watch at your own risk.
The blog publisher's review of this film was sort of like my review of NOAH (2014). That movie was awful! So bad you feel compelled to warn viewers in advance.
* * Apologies. The blog owners decided to unpublish his blog. Movie is available on Amazon Video, if interested.
Saving grace for the viewer? Hmmm? On the plus side, neither movie was bad enough to ruin the joy of munching on a bowl or a box of buttered popcorn. ☺
JACK AND DIANE
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The blog publisher's review of this film was sort of like my review of NOAH (2014). That movie was awful! So bad you feel compelled to warn viewers in advance.
* * Apologies. The blog owners decided to unpublish his blog. Movie is available on Amazon Video, if interested.
Saving grace for the viewer? Hmmm? On the plus side, neither movie was bad enough to ruin the joy of munching on a bowl or a box of buttered popcorn. ☺
JACK AND DIANE
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09 October 2017
Halloween Movie : MANIAC COP (1988) ~ What's on Your Watch List?
Definitely out of the loop on this one. There's a Maniac Cop one, two and three, and I have yet to watch the first one! It's a "late '80s urban horror/action" film and for me, the idea of a crazy cop is for real scary! It's not at the top of my watch list. But it is on my list.
Do you have a watch list of movies for Halloween?
Do you have a watch list of movies for Halloween?
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03 October 2017
Gift Shopping? Shop for Gifts in My Gold Mine
If you enjoy online shopping, this site might be of interest to you. The site is Webnuggetz.com. The site owners describe their site as a place where you can find “gold”. This is a statement from their “About” tab:
The members or web page publishers are mainly of home-based business sellers who have their own stores on Zazzle, Etsy, eBay, etc. and affiliate advertisers or marketers like me. Feel free to visit my Nuggetz. I have been an active member since 2014 and have published 50+ web pages. Below is a sampling of some of my suggested gift ideas and a link for you to subscribe to my web page updates. Hope you like what you see in “my gold mine”. :)
“Nuggetz are tidbits of gold you find on the internet.”
All I Got For Christmas Was a Lousy Christmas Stocking! :(
Kits to make your own Christmas stockings. Isn’t that fabulous idea?
The product manufacturer contributes to various organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Gwinnett County Women’s Shelter, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the United Way.
Kits to make your own Christmas stockings. Isn’t that fabulous idea?
The product manufacturer contributes to various organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Gwinnett County Women’s Shelter, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the United Way.
- Gretta Curran Browne believes she was touched by angel. She was raised in an orphanage and one of her caretakers, a nun, was certainly her guardian angel. She gives her credit for becoming a writer because the sister taught here the art of telling a story. She started her career writing short stories. Dark Days, Dark Nights : Intro to the Writings of Gretta Curran Browne
- Don't know many people who don't enjoy the writings of Charles Dickens. But these two books are murder mysteries that are quick reads which follow the Dickens tradition. In other words, if you like Dickens you can't help but like these books! Dickens Junction Mystery Series
- Gourmet food gifts are on my wishlist every year. No matter what the event: birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day. Give me a food gift to make me happy. Especially gourmet cheese. Gourmet Food Gifts : Specialty Cheeses
- In my house there need not be a season to be a reason to drink tea. But according to a designated "tea aficionado", he seems to think that one should drink their tea according to the season of the year. Hmmm? He might be on to something! Is a Season Your Reason to Drink Tea?
18 September 2017
Book Suggestions: Mystery , History or Ghost Story?
Peter Ackroyd is a writer, in more ways than one: biographer, historian, poet, novelist. People like to describe him as eccentric. Mr. Ackroyd is a bit of a recluse, likes to drink, and still writes longhand. Some people consider that type of behavior somewhat peculiar. But he is without a doubt a prolific writer and has written so many books you may not know where to begin.
Suggest you start with The Trial of Elizabeth Cree; it’s a murder mystery set in 1880 Victorian London.
Or … you could try to tackle his voluminous works of the History of England or his retelling of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
If you like horror or spooky stories or you want to get into the spirit of the Halloween season, maybe his collection of English ghost stories might be fun!
28 August 2017
The Pendant - A Gothic Romance Novel (Reblog) | History and Women
Sharing a link from one of the most gorgeous and informative blogs about women and for women on the worldwide web! The blog publisher writes book reviews but is also an author. This is one of her books.
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A 100 year family feud.
And a woman with a passion richer than the bloodstone pendant she wears around her neck!
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18 August 2017
World Music : Spotlight on Zaho, Algerian R&B Singer
Have always thought Algerian music had a moody, exotic, sensual vibe. Right? So tried to sign up at a site (a while back) to listen to Algerian radio stations. Could get other stations from other countries but for some reason could never get to hear music played on Algerian stations. Gave up trying!
Started watching foreign films with my SO (significant other) many moons ago and also began listening to singers from other countries or rather “world music”. You could say he opened up a new world for me; a fantastic point of view. :) But long before we ever met each other, the sound of people speaking in French has always captivated me. Mattered not what they were saying or singing – they could have been cussing at me - if it was in French it sounded way better than in English. Even people who RAP in French sound better!!
My SO (significant other) let me listen to this female singer called Zaho. Liked her sound. Did a little extra research on her.
Zehira Darabid (born on May 10, 1980), known by her artistic name Zaho, is an Algerian R&B singer. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaho
Algerian? Yeah. Uh huh. That figures. Oh well! At least access to her videos wasn't cut off from the American audience.
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17 August 2017
The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales
The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales
By: Philip Spires
The title piece in this anthology is a parable on the nature of religious belief. When first published in 1932 it caused quite a stir and I wondered whether the intervening 75 years might have rendered it something less of a shocker. I found that, apart from one violation of current political correctness and a few inevitable stylistic issues, the message had lost none of its poignancy and perhaps little of its ability to shock.
"The Black Girl in Search of God" (free eBook) is not a novel or a novella. It is not really a short story either. I choose to describe it as a parable because others have, but equally, it could be classed alongside Plato's symposium as a vehicle for examining a philosophical idea. It's not a discourse, but it could be a meditation, albeit a rather energetic one. The idea in question, of course, is the nature of religious belief.
The Black Girl of the title is only cast as such, I think, to provide Bernard Shaw, the author, with a literary vehicle to convey his otherwise naïve questions about Christianity. To this end, The Black Girl is presented as a "noble savage", and thus a tabula rasa. It is here - and only here - that Shaw violates current correctness. The character could have been cast as a child, but then she could not have threatened to wield her knobkerrie, her weapon, and nor could she have been portrayed as bringing no tradition of her own. We must accept, therefore, that there remains a functionality about the role of this character. She does not represent anything, except her ability to ask the questions she is required to ask.
The Black Girl has been converted to Christianity by a young British woman who has taken delight in amorously jilting a series of vicars. She then becomes a missionary, despite her clearly thin grasp of the subject matter. She is, perhaps, an allegory of colonial expansion. She goes abroad to teach others despite not having achieved fulfillment or knowledge in her own life. It might be important that the teacher and the taught are both women.
When her convert starts asking questions, fundamental questions that the missionary herself has never heard asked, never mind answered, she reverts to invention, not scholarship. Shaw's intention is clear. She invents myth to mystify myth. And this cloak satisfies the curiosity of the average Christian, but not The Black Girl, who thus goes off in search of God.
And, guided by snakes, she finds Him. And not just once, because there is more than one God in the Bible she carries. There is the God of Wrath, who demands the sacrifice of her child. When she cannot comply, He demands she find her father so he can sacrifice her. A good part of the Bible thus disappears from her new-found faith.
She meets an apparent God of Love, but he laughs at Job for being so naively and blindly devout. More of her book blows away.
She meets prophets who, one by one, deliver their different messages, most of which conflict and communicate individual political positions or bigotry rather than personal revelation.
On the way, she belittles Imperial power and male domination. She learns that most "civilized" countries have given up on God and hears a plea that people like her should not be taught things that the mother country no longer believes.
Scientists offer her equally conflicting opinions. They are careful only to describe, never to conclude or interpret. In a way, they are just modern prophets, each with their own interested positions.
There is an amazing episode where a mathematician implores her to consider complex numbers, the square root of minus x, which The Black Girl hears as Myna sex or perhaps its homophone minor sex, and is clearly a reference to feminism. Along with economic power and male dominance, The Black Girl sees guns as the highest achievement of white society. This anticipates the description of colonialism's trinity in Ngugi's Petals of Blood.
Then, in a strange section, an Arab discusses belief with a conjuror. These appear to be a pair of major prophets in thin disguise. But their discussions merely confuse the girl and their words skirt her questions.
And so she meets an Irishman, marries and settles down. She devotes herself to him, their coffee-colored children and the fruits of their garden. Note that she does not devote herself to herself. She projects out, does not analyze within. And in this utterly humanist universe she finds not only personal happiness, but also fulfillment and, with that, answers to her own metaphysical questions that religion per se could not even address.
And so, as the parable closes, we ponder whether the Irishman she marries is Shaw, and whether The Black Girl is the questioning, non-racist, non-sexist, socialist and humanist vision of the future he has personally espoused.
And as for the Lesser Tales, they are generally lesser. Don Giovanni explaining himself was fun and the Death of an Old Revolutionary Hero was prescient of the role of the Socialist Workers' Party adopted in maintaining Margaret Thatcher in power in the 1980s. A great, historical and fundamentally contemporary read.
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Philip Spires
Author of "Mission", an African novel set in Kenya
www.philipspires.co.uk
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01 August 2017
War Movie Classics: The Dirty Dozen
Some say the movie “Inglorious Basterds” was inspired by "The Dirty Dozen". This classic starred some of my favorite actors: Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and Jim Brown, to name a few. Bad guys turned Patriots? You really wanted these "dirty" guys to survive.
The Dirty Dozen, Clint Walker, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, Trini Lopez, et al, 1967 Allposters.com
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08 July 2017
The Death Game: Book Review by Chris Longmuir
Found the link below because it was shared in a Writers, Readers, Researchers & Reviewers Group on Facebook. I prefer historical romance novels myself but the reviewer seemed to be really enthusiastic about this historical mystery. It has peaked my interest in exploring other historical mysteries.
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30 June 2017
Movies That Suck With Sequels : The Expendables (2010)
Question. Why is that the movies that you can most assuredly live the rest of your life without ever watching, have sequels??
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26 June 2017
Book Suggestions : Classic Literature: Francois-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778) aka Voltaire
Francois-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), who later took the name of Voltaire, was once hailed as “the wittiest writer in an age of great wits”, and Candide (or Optimism) was considered “his wittiest novel”. The topic he chose to exercise his wit upon in this novel was the problem of human suffering.
Candide (or Optimism) was written in 1758. At that time, Voltaire was 64 years old. Most consider this his most important work — representative of The Enlightenment (1650-1800). The personal suffering he had endured in his own lifetime, and his study of history convinced him that there is no such thing as Divine Providence directing all human affairs.
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Candide (or Optimism) was written in 1758. At that time, Voltaire was 64 years old. Most consider this his most important work — representative of The Enlightenment (1650-1800). The personal suffering he had endured in his own lifetime, and his study of history convinced him that there is no such thing as Divine Providence directing all human affairs.
Brief Bio of Voltaire and Intro to Candide - HUBPages.com
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Long-lost letters reveal the young Voltaire | The Cotton Boll Conspiracy : More than a dozen letters penned by French Enlightenment figure Voltaire nearly 300 years ago have been uncovered recently and are now being studied by a British professor …
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