I take little stock in Time magazine lists. They once allowed internet votes for the most influental person of the year and #3 was Sanjaya from American Idol. That doesn't surprise me but you can make a case that he was influential in terms of showing how pop culture has turned into an even more fa...

Thanks i'll go and post in it.

Well i'm happy my fave show DALLAS is on the list

Well I finally saw The Set-up What a tight and wonderfully directed film. Robert Ryan was very believable as Stoker Thompson and everyone fit their parts to a tee. I especially liked how the boxing scenes near the end didn't just focus on the fight but gave the crowd a personality and a place in the...

Yes she deserves it but I was looking forward to Nightfall. Oh well hopefully it's scheduled again sometime soon.

Welll I just watched Tribute to a Bad Man a movie with one of the more misleading titles i've ever come across. Cagney's character isn't so much bad it's just that he's filling the void with the absence of the law. The script is a little contrived in the way that it tries to make Cagney seem "b...

What do you guys think of Costner? I thought he was ok in Wyatt Earp, The Postman and Dances with Wolves.

As for guys these days? I dunno I'm going to see the remake of 3:10 to Yuma and I think, even tho I loathe him that Russell Crowe might do well.

John Ford and Anthony Mann. No one else really comes close tho I recognize and love what Sergio Leone did with his "spaghetti westerns".

Being of a particular age I remember Ms. Wyman mainly for Falcon Crest I used to watch that show all the time with my mother as a kid.

RIP

Well i'm about to watch Tribute to a Bad Man and I recorded Blood on the Moon and The Set-Up which i'll watch overnight[/b]

Gabriel Over the White House (1933): made as the nation and world sank into the Depression, this film spins a story of a political gladhander (à la Warren Harding, perhaps), who, after an auto accident, is seemingly possessed by a higher power (an angel? a psychosis? a frisson of spiritual insight?...

This Land is Mine (1943) this is a pretty darn good anti-Fascist film and it's directed by no less a master then Jean Renoir. He's said to have quipped that this was his propaganda film. Charles Laughton gives a masterful performance as the cowardly teacher Albert Lory who gets caught up in the Fre...

Thanks for the heads up i'll definitely have to give this movie a shot.

I just bought and will start reading next week Basil Lidell Hart's HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. It'll be interesting to read a military analysis of the war from the man whose techniques were taken up by the Germans and who more or less was a guiding light to the leading generals and military lea...

Last full movie I saw? ummm In a Lonely Place (1950) what a wonderful Bogie movie. He was truly disturbing as a bit of a nutcase. Originally the movie had him totally losing it. (i'm trying not to spoil it for others) but the director changed the ending. Anyways this movie had a great supporting cas...