I am frankly very surprised by the negativity surrounding this movie. My partner and I are big fans of the first movie and we went into this with high expectations, but it didn’t disappoint in the slightest. The storyline carried…
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Sigur Rós – Njósnavélin (The Nothing Song) and Cameron Crowe
I came across ‘The Nothing Song’ song some years ago when I watched the final scene in the movie Vanilla Sky. Cameron Crowe, the director of Vanilla Sky has such a great taste in music as seen by the song…
Tagged with: Álmost Famous, Bob Dylan, Cameron Crowe, Njósnavélin, Sigur Rós, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The nothing song, Vanilla Sky
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman
Last night I saw this gorgeous movie called Smiles of a Summer Night. This Ingmar Bergman period piece comedy runs rampant with extremely clever and witty dialogue. It’s so unashamedly cheeky! On the surface, it’s seemingly a light-hearted humorous romp…
Tagged with: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Breaking Down Bergman Series, Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night, Woody Allen
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Who Killed JFK? The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy
I got hooked, lined and sinkered into the the whole conspiracy theory camp after seeing Oliver Stone’s JFK the movie. It aligned with my world view and the whole ‘masters of war’ rhetoric. Thankfully, I did a bit of my own…
Tagged with: JFK, JFK assassination, John F Kennedy, Oliver Stone, US Government
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
Posted in Movies and TV, politics
The Lego Movie. Be Wary of the Hype
I saw it The Lego Movie my son yesterday. I cannot understand 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. The beginning and end was interesting, but everything in between was well…very lego-ish. I felt like I was sitting in a boardroom watching a…
Inside Llewyn Davis – The Coen Brothers
Inside Llewyn Davis is about a folk singer trying, but not very successfully to make it ‘big’ in the early 1960s Greenwich Village. Llewyn is a lost man trapped inside a beastly world where its unremittingly bad karma pounds down…
Fall 24 miles to Earth with Felix Baumgartner in New Space-Jump Video
This video is Felix Baumgartner plummeting at death defying speed from the stratosphere.
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…
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