Category Archives: Performers

“An American Affair”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I bought the DVD of this 2009 movie because Gretchen Mol is in it. It turns out to be a small historical suspense fantasia, set in 1963 in Georgetown, about a teenage boy from an uptight family … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged Gretchen Mol, JFK, Mary Pinchot Meyer, movies, Ross Thomas | 9 Comments

“Sana”

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I love this ultra-exultant dance track from the soukous star Kanda Bongo Man. There’s enough genius guitar and bass work in it to send a fan soaring clear into the next century. Here’s another happy Kanda Bongo Man track:

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Kanda Bongo Man, Music, soukous | Leave a comment

Exploitation Movie Posters

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: These days, everyone loves old exploitation movies — even smart people. In fact, it seems to me that old exploitation movies are to the artsy-smartsy set of today what Hollywood classics starring Bogart and Cagney were to the artsy-smartsy … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Movies, Performers, Sex | Tagged 13 Assassins, American International Pictures, Audition, Blaxploitation, Breakdown, Crank, Edwige Fenech, Exploitation, Frank Tashlin, Freeway, Greg McLean, Grindhouse, Herschell Gordon Lewis, horror, Ichi the Killer, Jack Hill, Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Mostow, Kung Fu, Matthew Bright, Movie Posters, movies, Neveldine/Taylor, Pam Grier, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Roberta Collins, Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, Sam Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Sid Haig, Takashi Miike, The Devil's Rejects, The Human Centipede, Tom Six, Wolf's Creek | 18 Comments

25 Awesome Things About “Rio Bravo”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Please feel free to add your own. 1. The names: Chance, Dude, Stumpy, Colorado, Feathers. 2. The bit where Chance kisses Stumpy on the head, then runs out the door like a little kid who’s just stolen … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Music, Performers | Tagged Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, Howard Hawks, John Wayne, movies, Ricky Nelson, Rio Bravo, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, westerns | 8 Comments

Bait & Switch

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Sometimes I’m not sure what a television ad is trying to sell me. Oh, I know what the product being advertised is, more or less. It’s the experience the ad is attempting to associate with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Music, Performers, Personal reflections, Sex, Television | Tagged Adult Friend Finder, Advertising, Alicia Keys, Citi, Conan the fucking Barbarian, Duckface, Empowerment, Lightspeed University, Madonna, Male Gaze, Marilyn Monroe, Men, Private Pass, Tawnee Stone, Validation | 18 Comments

The Camera Loves…

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Anne Hathaway is a national treasure. Thanks to Paleo Retiree for some of the links and Fabrizio del Wrongo for the tags.

Posted in Movies, Performers, Sex | Tagged actresses, animated GIFs, Anne Hathaway, big-girl goosey awkwardness, cute, girly fragility, glamour, goofiness, Havoc, Love and Other Drugs, NSFW | 5 Comments

“Margin Call”

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Margin Call” is an ensemble drama that treats the 2008 financial meltdown as a race-against-time thriller. Written and directed by newcomer J. C. Chandor, the movie takes you behind the hermetic glass sheathing of a prominent … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged finance, Honey Badger, J.C. Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Margin Call, movies, Star Wars | 7 Comments

“Journey’s End”

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Based on a play by R. C. Sherriff, the 1930 “Journey’s End” is a good example of a movie which benefits from its stage origins. It’s less a war film than a waiting-through-a-war film: for most … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged All Quiet On the Western Front, Colin Clive, David Manners, Dawn Patrol, Ernest Hemingway, Great War, Ian MacLaren, James Whale, Journey's End, Laurence Olivier, movies, R. C. Sherriff, Richard Barthelmess, War Films, Westfront 1918, World War I | 2 Comments

“The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque”

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: When you think of New Wave filmmakers who’ve delved into politics Eric Rohmer probably isn’t the first guy to spring to mind. And for good reason: he was always the group’s miniaturist-philosopher, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged architecture, Casualism, Cinema Verite, Conservationism, Conservatism, Environmentalism, Eric Rohmer, France, Gustave Courbet, movies, Musicals, politics, Socialism | 8 Comments

“The Kissing Bandit,” Frank Sinatra, and Ricardo Montalban

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I’ve been going through some of the lesser-known MGM musicals of late. There’s a lot of dreck hiding out in that celebrated body of work. But one of the things you quickly realize is that even … Continue reading →