Independence Day and Independence Day: Resurgence — Remember That Movie

(AS ALWAYS SPOILERS AHEAD) So a friend of mine asked me to pen my thoughts on a familiar classic called Independence Day starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, and Jeff Goldblum. This movie as well as its sequel were written and directed by Roland Emmerich, it was his original story. The first movie […]

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The Hollywood Hallucination – by Parker Tyler (© 1944 – 1970) — Lillian Gish

The Hollywood Hallucination by Parker Tyler (© 1944) Introduction by Richard Schickel (© 1970) What it comes to, in essence, is this: There is the conscious movie: the one the people who created it thought they were making and the one we thought we were paying our way in to see. Then there is the […]

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‘Field of Dreams’: Fathers & sons, phantoms and phenoms — WWLP

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball and tears, the ones streaking down cheeks. Tears, the kind leaving rifts between fathers and sons. “Field of Dreams” is about phantoms and phenoms on an unlikely diamond in an Iowa cornfield. Emotions gush like water across the fresh-cut grass, resonating three decades later because of the nerves the movie […]

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Michael Palin, Monty Python and a Good Lockdown Read — Letters from an unknown author!

This week has been rather nice weather wise, apart from the last few days. On a normal week Liz and I would perhaps have started up the motorhome and driven off somewhere. Scotland perhaps or maybe even Wales. It’s a long time since I’ve been to Wales. A long, long time ago, my Grandfather and […]

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ABC Film Challenge – World Cinema – B – Birds of Passage (2018) Movie Review — Movie Reviews 101

Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra Writer: Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal (Screenplay) Starring: Carmina Martinez, Jose Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narvaez, Juan Bautista Martinez, Miguel Viera Plot: During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to […]

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Creative Virtual Ideas to Stay Connected —

Recreating those “water cooler” interactions while everyone is working remote is not easy… Grain Farmers, a Canadian nonprofit group got creative with their communication platforms to keep employees connect. They hosts a staff website where they post a joke and a funny quote each day They also share pictures of the pets that keep us […]

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Film Fridays – ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ — The Arty Plantsman

Film Fridays is a project initiated by Sarah and I. After doing a daily music challenge for a month last year we talked about doing something similar for movies. The current global lockdowns give us the perfect excuse to start. Many of us are confined to home with only the TV for company so we […]

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