Tuesday, March 01, 2016
The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: 2016 Derringer Finalists
The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: 2016 Derringer Finalists: From Derringer Awards Coordinator Tony Rudzki, here are the finalists for 2016. Group voting to determine the winner in each category runs March 1–30. Winners announced March 31.
If You Have about 15 Minutes to Spare, This Is Worth a Look
This video shows what ancient Rome actually looked like: It's impossible for anyone to see what ancient Rome looked like in all of its splendor, since we've failed to invent a time machine. But the above video, which shows a 3D rendering of Rome in 320 AD, is about as close as we can get.
Five Forgotten Sylvester Stallone Movies
Stop or my Mom Will Shoot and Rhinestone inexplicably not included.
Five Sylvester Stallone Movies You Probably Haven't Seen But Should
Five Sylvester Stallone Movies You Probably Haven't Seen But Should
Alice Arlen, R. I. P.
The New York Times: Alice Arlen, a screenwriter who collaborated with Nora Ephron on the 1983 Mike Nichols film “Silkwood,” the story of a lab worker killed in a suspicious car crash en route to meet a reporter to expose what she considered life-threatening dangers at a nuclear plant, died on Monday evening at her home in Manhattan. She was 75.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Overlooked Movies -- Stakeout
Stakeout is a buddy cop movie that I like a lot, partially but not entirely because Richard Dreyfuss is one of my favorite actors. I've been a fan ever since American Graffiti, and while I never expected him to turn up in a movie like this, he does a terrific job. So does Emilio Estevz, who plays his partner. So does the entire cast, for that matter.The plot, as in most buddy cop movies, is pretty simple. A woman (Madeline Stowe) is living a quiet life until her former boyfriend (Aidan Quinn) breaks out of prison. Dreyfuss and Estevez are one of two teams of cops assigned to stake out her house in case the boyfriend shows up. The other team is made up of Forest Whitaker and Dan Lauria, and a lot of the comedy in the movie comes from the pranks the two teams play on each other to relieve the boredom of the stakeout. Also, Dreyfuss and Estevez pass the time by trying to stump each other with movie lines. There's a good joke in one of those.
Also relieving the boredom and adding to the complications is that Dreyfuss falls for Madeline Stowe. As who wouldn't? You can pretty much guess where this is heading. The boyfriend does show up, and there's a drawn-out ending with plenty of action and shooting. For that matter there's a good bit of action throughout, so the comedy is laced with a lot of violence.
This is yet another one of those movies that I liked a lot but that a good many other people didn't much care for. So let the buyer beware.
Monday, February 29, 2016
George Kennedy, R. I. P.
'Naked Gun' actor George Kennedy dead at 91: George Kennedy, whose film and TV roles ran the gamut from a pugilistic prisoner in Cool Hand Luke to a Dallas oil Tycoon and, of course, in the Naked Gun and Airplane movies, has died, the Associated Press reported Monday. He was 91.
Only 99 Cents for a Limited Time
Jump Cut (The Ellie Foreman Mysteries Book 5) - Kindle edition by Libby Fischer Hellmann. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman has been absent from thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann's repertoire for almost a decade. Now, in Jump Cut, she's back...and is soon entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to destroy what she holds most dear.
Watch a Typical Day in the Life of a 1990 High School Student
Mental Floss: While many filmmakers have attempted to capture what it was like to be a high school student in the '80s and '90s, few have managed to do so as realistically as Josh Burdick. That’s because Burdick really was a high school student during that era. His 45-minute video, simply called “April 1990—Video I Shot of My Typical Day of a High School Student,” is a time capsule of everyday teenage life in 1990s, simultaneously mundane and completely engrossing.
First It Was the Thin Mint Melee
Two pregnant women fight over man on Valentine’s Day at Olive Garden
Yet they say romance is dead.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Yet they say romance is dead.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
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