A city without problemswithout memorieswithout deathwithout painBut there’s always someone who is a troublemaker This week’s featured movie The Bothersome Man (Norwegian: Den brysomme mannen) like last week’s Vivarium find the protagonists trapped in dystopian worlds where they attempt to escape.…
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Vivarium (2019) – Lorcan Finnegan (Friday’s Finest)
Just yesterday my cinefile friend Bernie at Reely Bernie and I were discussing today’s featured movie Vivarium. Like him I only ‘quasi-liked’ it after first viewing, although the premise intrigued me and lingered somewhere in the recesses. Upon subsequent viewings…
Kickboxer (1989) – David Worth (Friday’s Finest)
The above movie poster adorned my room when I was 15 years old. Nothing has changed because my 14 year boy recently came back from a school excursion to a book and movie fair and presented me a Rocky IV…
Captain Fantastic (2016) – Matt Ross (Friday’s Finest)
IMDB Storyline:In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means…
6/5 – 12/5/24 – May Pang, Son of Man & Starfish
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Meeting May PangBlog article at PowerPop Max at PowerPop has made it no secret his adoration and fascination with the Beatles over the years.…
Tagged with: Ali Ataie, blogging theology, john lennon, MayPang, powerpop, Sharon's Writers Tidbits, son of man, Starfish
Posted in Movies and TV, News, Reading
Posted in Movies and TV, News, Reading
The Promised Land (2023) – Nikolaj Arcel (Friday’s Finest)
In Danish and Spanish this film title is translated ‘The Bastard‘. Why the innocuous ‘The Promised Land‘ was chosen for its English title is anyone’s guess, because this film is anything but banal. I saw ‘The Bastard‘ at the cinema…
Tagged with: Danish, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Arcel, the bastard, the promised land
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
15/4 – 21/4/24 – Apostle Paul, Classic Film & Mr. Hall
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Was the Apostle Paul the Real Founder of Christianity? With Dr James TaborVideo discussion at Blogging Theology I have been wading through a variety…
Tagged with: audrey hepburn, Bible, Daryl Hall, Dr James Taylor, Film, Hall & Oats, Nancy, Paris when it sizzles, Paul, Paul Williams, the elephant's trunk
Posted in Movies and TV, News
Posted in Movies and TV, News
Scoop (2024) – Philip Martin (Friday’s Finest)
I recall in my adolescent years seeing Prince Andrew, Duke of York in his naval uniform and reading about him being a hero in the Falklands war as a helicopter pilot. I couldn’t help but look up to him; he…
Tagged with: Billie Piper, Gillian Anderson, Philip Martin, Prince Andrew, Sam McAlister, Scoop
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
The Road (2009) – John Hillcoat (Friday’s Finest)
Many years ago, I read the Cormac McCarthy novel from which today’s featured movie The Road was adapted. Cormac McCarthy is the author of No Country for Old Men which the Coen Brothers adapted for the screen in their Best…
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) – Bryan Forbes (Friday’s Finest)
Whistle Down the Wind is an apt movie to present here on Good Friday. It is also my first recalling of a movie which impacted me as a youngster. As someone as curiously engaged as the young actors, I found…
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