Friday , April 26 2024

Tag Archives: Action

Men In Black II

On our vacation we watched a fair number of movies at night on actual TV, not something we’d normally do what with commercials, clumsy editing and the like, but doing weird things is what vacations are all about, baby. So anyway, we watched Men in Black and our almost 4-year-old …

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Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee died 30 years ago tomorrow at 32. I remember vividly watching Fists of Fury and The Chinese Connection, dubbed into English, at the old Warners movie theater in San Pedro in ’72 before we moved to Ohio. I thought he was magical, immortal, the coolest – he made …

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We Three Kings in Iraq Are…

In today’s NY Times, David Edelstein acclaims Three Kings a great movie, and unambiguously anti-war: I agree with the former point. Obviously, the director David O. Russell meant it to be anti-war, but I came away from the film sickened not by the Gulf War – though I am disgusted …

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