Basket of Kisses

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Occupy yourselves with discussion of gowns, past and present, and feel free to weigh in on everybody’s favorite topic, “They was robbed!” (Terms of Endearment? Over The Right Stuff? REALLY???)

And now for something a little different — an intense comic rendering of all six James Bonds by artist Ross Burt.   See more of his great work here, and he sells his prints too!  

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 8/10 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens with a framing scene, connecting the previous movies with this one. Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm), the old man we remember from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, begins to write a memoir for Frodo (Elijah Wood), but won’t show it to him [...]

Golden Globes: Mad Men was not nominated for Best Television Drama? Now you people are just being silly! Once again, the Mad Women fare worse than the Mad Men; Jon Hamm received a well-deserved nomination for Best Actor in a TV Drama, but Christina, Elizabeth, and January are unnoticed. You can’t even say “Who does [...]

Lately, Zooey Deschanel has gotten a lot of flak for being girlishly cute or “adorkable”. Some have even nominated her as the reigning queen bee of all Manic Pixie Dream Girls, a term that Nathan Rabin defined as a madcap film heroine who serves to inspire the hero to shake himself out of his funk, [...]

This is one of many reviews of Skyfall I will ultimately write. At some point, there will be a spoiler-laden analysis. At some point soon, I’ll see the movie again and have further thoughts. At some point, I’ll sleep. But for now, what you’re getting is the 10 a.m. review of the movie I left [...]

Oops, I forgot to post the next in my Film Experience series. Here’s 007 Favorite 007 Films. I spent a couple of years compiling lists made by James Bond fans; primarily favorite movies, least-favorites, and ranked lists of the whole series. The fun thing to discover is, when it comes to James Bond, everyone’s an [...]

Fellow Basketcases, I offer this capsule to alert you to a relative rarity – an intelligent science fiction film, which is not dressed up horror or merely action-adventure set in the future.

As autumn gets underway, we’ll say a last goodbye to summer with this classic teen cruise. The slogan for American Graffiti was “Where were you in ’62?”  But since I was only 1 at the time, I don’t remember a thing, and the only ‘cruising’ I did then was along the living room furniture.  So by [...]

The Film Experience is having a month of Oscar-related movie blogging, and today’s entry is by yours truly. The Great Oscar Animation War of 2001/2002 was fought between innocence and jadedness, between sincerity and irony, between modernism and post-modernism, or, to put it plainly, between Monsters, Inc. and Shrek. (To be fair, Jimmy Neutron: Boy [...]

I have a James Bond column starting at The Film Experience. First entry is here: Between today, which happens to be International James Bond Day, and the U.S. release of the 23rd official James Bond movie, Skyfall (opening November 9th!), Nathaniel has asked me to deliver a series on the subject of James Bond. We’ll [...]

I’ve been to a lot of local theater productions this summer, several with my relatives in them!  And what’s a good summer without a little Summer Stock? This feel-good musical comedy from MGM in 1950, was Judy Garland’s last hurrah for the studio, and despite several bumps in the road, she left the studio in [...]