One of the side benefits of my new working/house-sharing conditions with Jim Groom is getting a chance to watch some movies together. I have a lot of backlog to catch up to his catalog, but this week we watched two classic films, that almost randomly had eerie amounts of similarity. The first was Blowup, apparently […]
I had not identified it before, but after watching The Road last night on DVD, I realized I have a fascination with post-apocalyptic films, as one reviewers describes as “near future” views of our world. Maybe it was first watch of the Road Warrior I saw as a teen, but on my flight home from […]
What happened to brave men like Jake W. Burns? I found out tonight, watching my newest DVD, Lonely are the Brave (1962) which, IMHO is a completely under-rated classic. The tag line is “Life can never cage a man like this…” I watched it because, like the star Kirk Douglas, had enjoyed Edward Abbey’s The […]
