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Posted by on Feb 26, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

Every Picture Tells a Story: North Dallas (1980)

 

 

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
NORTH DALLAS (1980)

Few people know, or will remember, the Dallas Cowboys Headquarters and ticket office used to be located in the very same building as the famed Playboy Club. A United Artists movie theater was also adjacent to the main building. I was lucky enough to visit them all. In 1976, I remember my dad taking me to sneak preview at the UA Cine….a new movie directed and written and starring an unknown actor named Sylvester Stallone. The title was Rocky. Saw lots of other great movies there, too.

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Posted by on Jan 1, 2025 in Blog | 1 comment

Netflix Short Reviews (2024)

 

 

NETFLIX REVIEW SHORTS (2024)

Note: Very long post–I wrote this New Years Day morning while watching football.

Really? There’s a “trailer” for the fireplace loop? What does this trailer show….the highlights?

Here are some popular Netflix (and a few Prime) shows I watched during this past year–along with a short review:

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Posted by on Dec 14, 2024 in Blog | 2 comments

Black Doves — Review (Netflix)

 

 

BLACK DOVES — REVIEW (ON NETFLIX)

There’s a lot to love about Black Doves, the latest popular series now available on Netflix. There’s also considerable chaos and confusion. To enjoy, we must suspend all sense of reality. This sort of thing could never happen in real life. Think of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels crossed with The Gentlemen melded with Kingsmen and frosted with Zero Dark Thirty. Rarely does a spy-caper provide so much style. Death monologues become poetry. Killing is art.

I loved most of it. I hated parts of it.

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Posted by on Dec 5, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

Conclave (Movie Review)

 

 

MOVIE REVIEW: CONCLAVE (2024)

“There is one sin which I have come to fear above all else ….. certainty.

It is the great enemy of unity. Certainty the deadly enemy of tolerance.”

— Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (played by actor Ralph Feinnes) in the movie, “Conclave”

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