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Ladle Rat Rotten Hut with a straight face

Posted on Sunday, 2008 December 28 by Anton

Someone considered this passage, in “The Night of the Legion of Death” (an episode of The Wild Wild West), worth quoting on IMDb: You’re not the Governor. Your one of the down faith, commandor present, your value silver voice! Your … Continue reading →

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Netflix oddities

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 April 22 by Anton

Netflix’s subgenre “Dramas Based on Classic Literature” includes Driving Miss Daisy, an adaptation of a play first staged in 1987. A list of recommendations for me shows some surprising and even dubious inferences: Life in the Undergrowth — Because you … Continue reading →

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character flaw

Posted on Sunday, 2008 April 06 by Anton

I’ve now watched three seasons of Lost, and am wondering a bit why Jack didn’t say to Ben, “Five minutes? I was a captive audience for two weeks; you could have told me then why ‘the good guys’ have been … Continue reading →

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Schindler’s subtitles

Posted on Sunday, 2007 December 30 by Anton

My hearing is just poor enough that I usually turn the subtitles on when I play a DVD; I could mostly do without the help, but it’s good to have when someone mumbles. It’s often clear that whoever made the … Continue reading →

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cross-pollination

Posted on Monday, 2007 October 15 by Anton

After watching a murder mystery involving a medium, I dreamt that Maurice Minnifield wanted to hire a medium for one of his promotional schemes. At least it wasn’t vampires this time.

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distinguishing traits

Posted on Sunday, 2007 October 07 by Anton

Watching Jericho, I wondered why Skeet Ulrich looks vaguely familiar; nothing in his previous credits rings a bell. Eventually I decided that his mouth sometimes looks like Johnny Depp‘s. That’s what I notice most about faces; how about you?

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sumer is igoen out

Posted on Thursday, 2007 September 20 by Anton

Fritz Lang’s Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) is one of the best early movies I’ve seen, considerably advanced in technique over his own previous picture, M (1931).

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