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Time to continue the journey down the rabbit hole, exploring of some of my late mother’s favorite films. Her tastes leaned more towards the classic rather than the modern, and I’m completely fine with that. Far too often we jump into the new and flashy thing with both feet and then dispose of it three minutes later …
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After an interminable spell of inaction with this series, we once again ascend the mountain of the movies that my mother enjoyed while she was still with us. As we climb, be sure that you have a good set of pitons, some excellent rope, and a flag representing whatever nation gave you the most endorsement money …
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Well, kids, it has been a while, hasn’t it? Aside from work and family commitments, it has been tough to carve out some time to talk about…well, anything! So I thought I’d start up a new series idea that I will probably let flounder and eventually lose interest in, but hey, let’s give it the …
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The merriest of Christmases to you and yours! I thought that I would close out this series of admittedly wondrous blog posts with a doozy of a Christmas movie. Once again, I have received inspiration from my family and as they are watching the My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas special, I have been spurred to take pen …
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This post is part of The Bernard Herrmann Blogathon that The Classic Movie Muse is hosting from October 29 through October 31st! As the saying goes, “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” And a comedy coming from Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense? Well, that must be the hardest comedy of all. The very idea …
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Tomorrow on July 17, 2021, it will be exactly 21 years exactly since my mother, Anita Wink, passed away after an over two-year ordeal with cancer. Wow. Just to write that. 21 years ago. Just over two decades ago. If I wanted to be highfalutin and such, I would call it one score and one year ago, but I …
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