The Arts – JustMeMike's New Blog[March 14th - Breaking News] – First and earlier today there was news that all production on the HBO Series had been halted due to an injury to a 3rd horse requiring euthanasia. Then there was further news – The series has been cancelled. I’m not sure if this means we won’t see the final [...]
Tragedy visits a Chicago family in the form of an auto accident which takes the life of a wife and mother. To get past the grief and to make a new start, the father, Joe (no last names are offered), played by Colin Firth, decides to accept an offer of a job as a visiting [...]
“What we got here is… failure to communicate.” That famous quote is from the iconic 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, which starred Paul Newman and garnered an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for George Kennedy. Neither of those men spoke that line above. But that line perfectly describes the story we watch in the 2009 [...]
It was months back, but I recall that my brother was quite enthused about Clint Eastwood‘s (at the time) forthcoming feature film Hereafter. The subject matter, Death, and/or Life After Death (LAD), and how living people come to terms with it, just wasn’t on my calendar for a nice winter movie, even though winter is [...]
Nobody’s getting younger, ya know? Of course you know. The mirror tells us this is so every day, even if we don’t always acknowledge the fact. I watched Kill the Irishman yesterday. This was a gangster flick set in the late 60′s and 70′s; the tale of a Cleveland hoodlum named Danny Greene. The film [...]
Lets see… Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Besson, Clair Denis, Jean-Francoise Richet, and Eric Rohmer. That’s about all the French film directors I can name. Yesterday, at the Sarasota Film Festival, I watched Eric Rohmer’s Summer which is also known as Le Rayon Vert or The Green Ray. First of all, this film was brought to the cinematic [...]
