Muhtar Davut: Some people have eyes in their hearts. They see the world through those eyes. They see everything through those eyes. When I sat down to have lunch two days ago and zapped through the channels I saw the…
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10/3/25 – 16/3/25 – A Complete Unknown, Tarantino & Running
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Some Thoughts on A Complete UnknownMovie Review by Scott Bunn at Recliner Notes I eventually saw A Complete Unknown just after it premiered here in…
Tagged with: a complete unknown, Bob Dylan, kill bill, london marathon, Phily Bowden, Quentin Tarantino, recliner notes, running, scott bunn
Posted in Movies and TV, News, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, News, Sport and Adventure
Flow (2024) – Gints Zilbalodis (Friday’s Finest)
Storyline: A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production, Flow features no dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive along with other animals in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world as the water level dramatically rises. The world seems to be coming to an end,…
Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here) 2024 – Walter Salles (Friday’s Finest)
Not since the Mexican masterpiece Roma (2018) and Colombia’s El Olvido Que Seremos (Forgotten We’ll Be) (2020) have I seen a Latin American film so deeply imbued with naturalism and grace. Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here) is exquisitely photographed,…
Tagged with: Ainda Estou Aqui, brazil, Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here, Walter Salles
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Professor Lazhar (2011) – Philippe Falardeau (Friday’s Finest)
A month ago in my Friday’s Finest segment I presented an article about The Book Thief – a movie about a young girl living with her adoptive German family during the Nazi era. It’s a wonderful family film which my…
Tagged with: Marie-Sophie Nélisse, Monsieur Lazhar, Philippe Falardeau, Professor Lazhar, the book thief
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
A Real Pain (2024) – Jesse Eisenberg (Friday’s Finest)
The latest Academy award nominated movies are starting to come out here; so over the next month or so I will be frequenting the cinema as I did this week seeing Companion and today’s featured movie – A Real Pain.…
Tagged with: a real pain, Frédéric Chopin, Jesse Eisenberg, Jewish heritage, Kieran Culkin, Poland, The second world war
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Dune (2021) – Denis Villeneuve (Friday’s Finest)
I haven’t been as floored or thoroughly transported by a Science Fiction / Fantasy film series since George Lucas’ Star Wars and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. You could even say the Dune films are a mixture between the aforementioned…
Tagged with: Denis Villeneuve, dune, Frank Herbert, lord of the rings, Star Wars, Timothée Chalamet
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
The Book Thief (2013) – Brian Percival (Friday’s Finest)
The Book Thief is a rare kind of film for its day. It gleams like the sun, glistens like rays on the surface of water – for here is a dark tale that lights up the very soul. The Book…
Tagged with: Brian Percival, geoffrey Rush, Marie-Sophie Nélisse, the book thief
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
6/1/25 – 12/1/25 – 85, Religion & Lynyrd Skynyrd
Welcome to my first Monday’s News on the March for 2025 – The week that was in my digital world. 85Reflection post at Britta’s Blog – Letters From Scotland My family ancestry partly traces back to Scotland, which has always…
Tagged with: 85, Alex O’Connor, allman brothers, ben Shapiro, Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland, Lynyrd Skynyrd, religion, scotland, southern rock, southern rock.
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, News, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, News, Reflections
The Phantom Thread’s New Year’s Eve Party
To share and celebrate making more cherished memories in 2025, I present to you; what has become a New Year’s Eve tradition here at Observation Blogger: The New Year’s Eve party scene from Phantom Thread which currently sits at No.…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Daniel Day Lewis, new years, new years eve, oscars, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Things Have Changed, when harry met sally
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
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