Category Archives: Film

“Billy! What Are You Doing!?”

Billy, one of the best characters from one of the greatest Sci-Fi films ever made, The Predator, has passed away: Actor Sonny Landham, who appeared in “Predator” and “48 Hrs,” died from congestive heart failure Thursday in Lexington, Ky. He was … Continue reading

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Dunkirk (2017)

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk might just be a masterpiece.  Despite its $150 million production, and all the temptations that surely must come with such a budget, the film is a measured study in minimalism — in sound, vision, and storytelling – … Continue reading

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Tiptoes (2003)

This has got to be the funniest trailer I’ve ever seen. The film, needless to say, was never released and went direct-to-video. What in god’s name was Oldman thinking?

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RIP: Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard has passed away, after battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease. While most know him only as a character actor, his greater accomplishments are as one of America’s most reknowned and prolific playrights. He had one of those storybook lives of … Continue reading

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Star Wars: 40 Years Ago

Star Wars was released 40 years ago yesterday. In the pre-internet, pre-cable-TV days of 1977, all we had in my household growing up was TV Guide. Before ‘Star Wars’ came out, I was perusing an issue of the magazine, and … Continue reading

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A British Lunch in 2017

As the institutional elites try to cajole us into accepting domestic Islamic terrorism as ‘the New Normal’, P.T. Carlo reminds us of this poignant scene from Brazil (“The Brazilification of the West”). As one YouTube commenter observes, note the music … Continue reading

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Unconscious Cinema

Richard Spencer and Mark Brahmin have launched a new podcast, which will read encoded films. It looks to be a good series. Unconscious Cinema: What Are We Thinking? Episode 0 of new podcast https://t.co/oQz5rLvJn2 — Richard 🐸 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) May … Continue reading

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Jung, White Racial Consciousness, & ‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’

Greatly influenced by Nietzsche’s grappling with the irrational forces believed to reside just below the surface of civilized society, Carl Jung theorized that each of our individual psyches contains an unconscious reservoir of motives, desires, fears, beliefs, and other characteristics … Continue reading

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Black Like Me (1964)

Black Like Me (1964), featuring James Whitmore, is filed under ‘Drama’ but wouldn’t it be better filed under ‘Comedy’? Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin … Continue reading

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Walt Disney & Salvador Dali – Destino (2003)

I just discovered this whimsical, totally Dali, uncompleted project. It’s a beautiful piece – structured around iconic Dali imagery — that delivers an effective and melancholy take on the finitudes of love and time. From the YouTube summary (which I … Continue reading

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