Month: June 2020

I was born in a large Northeastern (racially diverse) city in the late 1950s and moved to a smaller (predominantly white) one when I was 10. My father was a real-life Archie Bunker, whose casual comments about other ethnicities and nationalities were, like those of his TV counterpart, easy to laugh off. He wasn’t hateful, […]… Continue reading What’s the Big Deal? Confessions of a Colorblind Spectrum Kid — The Bee’s Pajamas

(MINNEAPOLIS) — A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they support disbanding the city’s police department, an aggressive stance that comes just as the state has launched a civil rights investigation after George Floyd’s death. Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared with activists at a rally in a city […]… Continue reading New top story from Time: Majority of Minneapolis City Council Backs Dismantling Police Department in Wake of George Floyd’s Alleged Murder — The Richardsonian

One of the many interesting feature film projects on the cusp of shooting, before the Coronavirus pandemic paused productions across Hollywood included the new crime flick Kill Switch from Logan Lucky director Steven Soderbergh. A 1950s crime drama set in Detroit about a trio of criminals who carry out a home invasion, only to wonder […]… Continue reading Steven Soderberg’s ‘Kill Switch’ Adds George Clooney, Benicio Del Toro, Amy Seimetz, Frankie Shaw, and Ray Liotta — THE RONIN

I was extremely excited for a solo weekend in Berlin. I’d already had one other solo trip to the sweet, quiet Swiss town of Interlaken. On that trip, I had a scheduled itinerary on a bus tour, and I was traveling with the relative safety of a tour group. The only crime to worry about […]… Continue reading Traveling solo: A Lesson in Privilege and Feminism — Kiana Duncan

Never have I ever wanted to reach through a screen and give a screenwriter a good, hard “What the hell is the MATTER with you?” shaking. Until “The Dinner Party.” An exasperatingly amateur and funereal “Satanic ritual sacrifice” horror outing, sitting through it is like watching the wax melt on a candle, like seeing your […]… Continue reading Movie Review: Beware the main course at “The Dinner Party” — Movie Nation

Humphrey Bogart stars in this World War Two drama as a tank commander in charge of a collection of allied soldiers. Here’s my review of the film, Sahara (1943) Tagline – SENSATIONAL! DRAMATIC! EMOTIONAL! MEMORABLE! What’s going down? Sometime during 1942 during WW2 the Allied forces were fighting General Rommel in the North African Campaign… Continue reading Sahara (1943) Humphrey Bogart is Sergeant Joe Gunn WW2 Tank Commander — Wolfmans Cult Film

Gary Numan ‘Dance’ 1981 “Dance is music made visible” In a world of entertainment, it is seldom any artist achieves such monumental success in such a short time frame. Be that music, film, literature, art, narration… Whatever the avenue, most celebrities climb gradually to the apex of their careers with gradual exposure and building […] via… Continue reading Purple Reign — museumhead

Well, after last week I reviewed a film whose behind-the-scenes dramas were more interesting than the final product, I thought it prudent to review a film that was as interesting as its production stories. Not really of course, this was already wheeling across the firing range and I needed something fun to write for the […]… Continue reading Blade Runner Review — Major Film Reviews

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ytvBJWW5wo%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Parasite is a difficult film to talk about. It defies any easy pigeonhole, wriggles free from slotting into a single genre, can be considered both a mainstream crowd-pleaser and an arthouse masterpiece — and is, undeniably, a film best enjoyed going in blind, its delicious and shocking surprises ideally experienced as innocently and obliviously… Continue reading Parasite Movie Review — Robin’s blog

In light of everything going on, I decided to offer an excerpt of my chapter on Black history in Napa County, California, from my book Hidden History of Napa Valley, out 2019. I did extensive research for this chapter and it covers 1846-1940. This chapter is not a meditation on The Struggle (TM), but a […]… Continue reading Black History in Napa County, California — Punk-Ass Book Jockey