It is the nature of the place, Las Vegas. With arid desert sprawling in all directions and a grand canyon in one of such magnificence it’s hard to fathom it was created in just one day, the area was discovered to be an oasis centuries ago by Spaniards traveling north from Tejas. The area has […]
Read the entire articleFrankly I love everything about The In-Laws. (Do not be confused. I am most certainly talking about the 1979 original, not the deplorable, unnecessary, heretical remake of a year of so ago.) It is among a handful of my favorite flicks of all time.
As much as anything I love the hook behind the film. Alan […]
One of the most intriguing characters in all of film is that of Billy Kwan in Peter Weir’s 1982 masterpiece, The Year of Living Dangerously.
The film is set in the turmoil of Sukarno’s Indonesia in the mid 1960’s. The dictator is trying to hang on, while the forces of change and poverty have turned the […]
One guy’s opinion is that the character Gorodish (Richard Bohringer) is the coolest guy in all of film. His self-stated satori is the “art of toast.” He lives in a way cool, sparely furnished Paris loft with a bathtub in the middle, plenty of room for his muse — fetching Vietnamese ingenue/ kleptomaniac Alba (Thuy […]
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