Planethalder (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was off work for the first two days of the week just gone. I was supremely lazy and didn't even leave the house (or change out of my sweat pants). Here's what I did: After M left with Little Planet to go to daycare and then work, I washed up the breakfast dishes and then... well that was the extent of my domestic duties for the day! I blogged I finished reading Jeffrey Eugenides' superlative, Pulitzer...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
So, you don't wanna talk about Spencer Tracy or James Brown? Okay, fine, be that way. I see now that the crew over at Time Out New York has posted its Top 50 Movies of the Aughts, so now's the...
Shoetube.tv Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Whenever I’m packing to visit old friends and family, like I am right now, I start channeling Katharine Hepburn as Pat in 1952’s Pat and Mike (he’s Spencer Tracy). I’m pulling out all my nipped-in pants, blousey tops and and casual cardis. No matter what situation Pat gets into, including playing multiple pro sports, she looks [...]
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Movies Kick Ass deconstructs yet another photoshop casualty (i.e. movie poster), this one for NINE . My thoughts on that film will hopefully be up later today... time is a tough taskmaster. Cinema Styles looks forward to Luise Rainer's 100th birthday in January. We should all be celebrating! Especially since she'll (god willing) still be alive for it. She was Oscar's very first two-time acting winner...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
IN a world of faceless mass production, these firms are determined that handmade tradition, craft and family endeavour can turn a profit in the face of cheap imports.
Mr London Street (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
1. Dimly coming round with a stinking case of the man flu, I lie face down on the mattress. I can just about make out a clinking sound coming from down the corridor. Kelly enters the bedroom carrying a pair of steaming mugs and sets one down on my bedside table. I am really in the mood for coffee, but Kelly hates coffee. Can't abide the smell of it. I, on the other hand, can barely smell anything at...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Last week's installment, #5, here. Follow the links at that post to access the other prior films in the series. Farber: "An adroit, scholarly example of sound storytelling that every Message Boy should be made to study as an example...
Happily Ever After (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From BonzaSheila, Legendary Lovers~ http://bonzasheila.com/stories/hepburntracy.html ~In 1942, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy co-starred in Woman of The Year, the first of nine films they would make together and the beginning of a romance that would become legendary.Gratitude... tis’ the season to take a look at what we’re most grateful for. I’ll admit this year has been challenging...
Simple of Sussex (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I don't mind people being dim or a bit dumb but if your working at being really stupid then you are fair game. Now unfortunately EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL has one of those people and he is known as SIMON NAISH . Now normally he is just a guy doing a job till he became just plain DUMBER than a singing chicken at a hillbilly BBQ . I left the EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL at the end of August 09 and never...
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It’s a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story, to ones that get remade over and over again like A Christmas Carol. Whether or not you like such movies, you must admit that it does get a bit repetitive watching the same [...]
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² ....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Zadie Smith's passion for writing and film shines through in this sparkling collection of criticism, says an admiring Peter Conrad For Zadie Smith, criticism is a bodily pleasure, not an abstracted mental operation. Reading, like eating, caters to her ravenous but discriminating appetite: she finds the essence of Kafka in a sliver of words from his diary, carved, she says, as thin as Parma ham and...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 8 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies STEADY: Ariel's boyfriend (Matt Prokop, left) is suspected of a murder investigated by Scanlon and Allison (David Cubitt, Patricia...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
This week's platinum picks: Disney/Pixar's Up, Major League Baseball's World Series Film Collection and Wim Wenders' greatest ...
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