In the first 15 minutes, History of Violence presents the scenes and events of any town USA: a small-town diner, a baseball game, and a sneering, varsity high school bully. It’s a facade of sorts; the calm before the storm.…
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Sound of Freedom (2023) – Alejandro Monteverde (Friday’s Finest)
Tim Ballard: God’s children are not for sale. Last week I went into this movie – Sound of Freedom with a lot of trepidation because of its disturbing subject matter – Child trafficking and sexual abuse. The film is mostly…
All The President’s Men (1976) – Alan J. Pakula (Friday’s Finest)
Ben Bradlee: You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get…
25/9 – 1/10/23 Cake, Excess Deaths, A.I. Hitchens (on J.B Peterson) & The Goonies
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. This Poem is about CakePoem at Theodora Goss: Poems If I didn’t carewhat the world thought,I would eat all the cake. What cake? I…
Tagged with: A.I, cake, Christopher hitchens, COVID, Dr John Campbell, Jordan Peterson, reely bernie, the goonies, theodora goss, Vaccines
Posted in Movies and TV, News, politics, Reading
Posted in Movies and TV, News, politics, Reading
The Mission (1986) – Roland Joffé (Friday’s Finest)
My father had a penchant for classic cinema and as a boy he would introduce me to movies that mostly went over my head and coerced me to sleep (which perhaps was ‘his mission’ all along). Citizen Kane, Casablanca, All…
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Friday’s Finest)
What I admire most about Little Miss Sunshine is it pulls no punches. It flies in the face of modern day – ’emotionally correct’ Hollywood filmmaking. In some sense, the whole movie is a reflection of 7-year-old Olive Hoover’s outlook…
Reality Bites (1994) – Ben Stiller (Friday’s Finest)
Reality Bites captured the zeitgeist of the early 1990s grunge scene among young adults. I was about their age when this movie came out. I could relate to the philosophical musings and desire to make a difference but not knowing how to…
The Lord of the Rings (Return of the King)
I saw ‘Fellowship of the Ring‘ with my father in Mornington and it was the last movie I would see with him. It remains my favourite of the three from the trilogy. But I must say how impressed I was…
Dead Poets Society (1989) – Peter Weir (Friday’s Finest)
The second time I saw Dead Poets Society was with my family in Camden Haven on the mid-north coast, New South Wales, Australia (see image inset). That’s where we went to visit my grandmother on school holidays and where my…
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Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
Manchester by the Sea (2016) – Kenneth Lonergan (Friday’s Finest)
Anyone who has seen Manchester by the Sea will understand how gruelling it is to watch. I believe I saw it for the first time at the cinema. I love the stand – alone music in the movie but they…
Tagged with: Casey Affleck, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, Michelle Williams
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
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