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Posted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

Want long life? Be Bond, sing about Bond, star with Julie Andrews, be Julie Andrews, appear with Ray Harryhausen

Roger Moore’s death was the first of a cinematic James Bond (well, excluding David Niven in the first Casino Royale) – Sean Connery, born 1930, is still with us, as…

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Posted on May 27, 2019May 26, 2019

#MondayMonsterMovie “War Of The Monsters”

What title could improve on “War Of The Monsters”? What animated logo could beat that of American International Pictures, Inc. which opens this picture with an appropriately stern invocation of…

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Posted on May 14, 2019May 13, 2019

#MarianMay – “Stabat Mater”, Stefano Lentini

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Posted on April 26, 2019

Google Play’s judgment of “romantic” not quite what one might expect

I mean, “A Clockwork Orange” is not what I would think of as a date movie…

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Posted on April 14, 2019April 11, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 14th, Hey Good Lookin’, Tom Hiddleston

So dominant a figure is Hank Williams even now that I thought I would approach him through the prism of some of the covers of his work. To start with…

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Posted on March 23, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 23rd, “Echelon’s Song”, Red Army Chorus

This plays over the credits of the Coen Brothers’ wildly entertaining ode to the last days of the Hollywood Studio System, Hail Caesar! You’ll have to watch it to find…

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Posted on March 12, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch: March 12th, “Arise Ye Russian Peoples”, from Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Prokofiev

Is Sergei Prokofiev’s score to Alexander Nevsky, the Eistenstein tale of a heroic Russian unifier defeating a Teutonic foe which was naturally enough suitable propaganda for Stalin, the greatest soundtrack…

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Posted on February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

“To Scale: The Solar System” a film by Wylie Overstreet and Dylan Gorosh

This wonderful short film takes a very simple idea and executes it brilliantly, and in the process brings home forcefully the smallness of our world in the solar system and…

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