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Fall 24 miles to Earth with Felix Baumgartner in New Space-Jump Video
Tagged with: Felix Baumgartner, space jump, stratosphere
Posted in Movies and TV, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, Sport and Adventure
Chrysler and Bob Dylan Super Bowl Commercial 2014
Ultimate Classic Rock: ‘We all knew that Bob Dylan‘s music would appear in two Super Bowl commercials this year, but what we didn’t know was how strongly — and clearly — he would verbally testify on behalf of the American…
Tagged with: Bill Maher, Bob Dylan, Chrysler, commercial, Expecting Rain, Superbowl
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Interesting Reactions to the ‘The Oscars Has Lost all Respectability’ Post
I forwarded my previous post ‘The Oscars has lost all ounce of respectability as a serious contest‘ to all the relevant movie discussion boards on Internet Movie Database. I was curious to know what the opinions of others were about…
Tagged with: awards, blue jasmine, imd, Inside Llewyn Davis, oscar nominations, oscars, wolf on wall street
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
‘The Oscars’ Has Lost all Ounce of Respectability as a Serious Award Contest
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ and ‘Blue Jasmine’ (best actress aside) have been shunned from the principal Oscar award categories. How was ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ snubbed for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Screenplay nominations? Likewise ‘Blue Jasmine’ for Best director and Best…
Posted in Movies and TV
Jerry Seinfeld – All Awards are Stupid
As the silly season of movie award ceremonies rapidly approaches, I was reminded of a very funny speech by Jerry Seinfeld aptly titled ‘All Awards are Stupid’. Actually I love this season, because we have an excuse to watch a…
Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson
George Carlin himself once put it: “Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the guys like me.” Last night I watched the sobering documentary on the infamous American comedian Lenny Bruce called, Swear to tell the truth. It was disturbing…
Winter Light (1963) – Ingmar Bergman
Marta Lundberg, an atheist local school teacher sits and laments at the church pew because she is deeply in love with a pastor whose faith in God, himself and Marta is dwindling into an existential nothingness. At the point of…
‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)
David Russell lent heavily from Martin Scorsese’s best crime dramas to make American Hustle. The narratives, music and editing are an almost direct homage to Scorsese’s 90’s work particularly Casino. Even De Niro makes a key entrance wearing the same…
Tagged with: American Hustle, Amy Adams, Casino, Goodfellas, Jordan Belfort, Martin Scorsese, Silver Linings Playbook, Wolf of Wall Street
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Ingmar Bergman and Wild Strawberries (1957)
Many years ago, I had the audacity to create a list of my 100 favourite movies on IMDB without having seen a single Ingmar Bergman picture. I was more or less cajoled to watch Bergman if my list was to…
Tagged with: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
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