Monday, March 24, 2025

THE ANGRY/DEPRESSIVE DOUBLE FEATURES OF ROBIN WILLIAM'S LAST TWO FILMS........BOTH DONE WITH 'A MONKEY ON HIS BACK'.....


Humor is often the mask of Anger......situation and romantic comedies have never been appealing to me....Nevertheless, I watched two of Robin Williams' last films recently.... The Angriest Man In Brooklyn and Boulevard.....both films were depressingly sad....Perhaps they reveal the Person behind the Persona....the tragic face behind the mask of comedy......I thought of Lenny Bruce, Phil Hartman, Feddie Prinze, and dozens of others, who only 'seemed' happy when there was an audience, laughing and applauding them.....There's that 'instant rictus' facile smile...quick to surface and quick to fade when the cameras exit....replaced by Hamlet's 'worry face' covering their anger, covering their hopelessness ........









Thursday, February 27, 2025

THE BIRTH OF TELETUBBIES.......PARENTED BY GEORGE PAL AND ROBERT HEINLEIN




Last night, I noticed the 1950 George Pal Sci-Fi Flick, DESTINATION MOON.......and tuned in for the last half hour of the movie.....just because 4 time Hugo Award Winner, Robert Heinlein, had written the screenplay.........Not having seen the film in such a long while, I couldn't 'not see' the Teletubbies.....Pay it Forward to caped superpowerheros, now/always playing at your local Malls.....Incidentally, it is rumored that Winky Dink was the 'real' father of Tinky Winky.....although Tinky may have been created by a tiny tear in a plastic screen that separated a glass cathode-ray tube from a suspiciously penis-like purple wax crayon.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

A wholesome human trafficking musical - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

THE SHORT HOP, SKIP & A JUMP..... FROM WILLIAM WELLMAN'S "THE PURCHASE PRICE", then.... "WESTWARD THE WOMEN" to STANLEY DONEN'S "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS'....... STORE-BOUGHT LADIES, CAPTURED BRIDES AND EASTERN FINERIES....SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED TO 'THE REAL MEN' OF THE AMERICAN WEST.... FROM PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD CONNIVANCES TO THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN.......

Friday, January 31, 2025

Thursday, January 16, 2025

THE SHORT HOP, SKIP & A JUMP..... FROM WILLIAM WELLMAN'S "THE PURCHASE PRICE", then.... "WESTWARD THE WOMEN" to STANLEY DONEN'S "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS'.......


 STORE-BOUGHT LADIES, CAPTURED BRIDES AND EASTERN FINERIES....SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED TO 'THE REAL MEN' OF THE AMERICAN WEST.... FROM PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD  CONNIVANCES TO THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN.......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMSxShz8UA

Sunday, January 5, 2025




"I watched Wade Watts and his High Five both defeat plausibility and engender complicit deniability, as comics-reading/virtual gaming fantacizers, incapsulated in CGI-actuated-retro-nostalgia, fill their goggles and headsets with Alter-World displacements of the exigencies of Dulldrum and its replacements of excitement, super-powers and the considerable unthinking rewards of Deus Ex Machina,,,,,,,,,The escapist fare looked great!.... It IS all about the surfactants, isn't it.......with the catalyst of unquestioning adolescence, buying this all up...then rushing out to Circuit City for the latest escape mechanism.... Now....clean up all this crap and do your trig homework or move out and get a job wrangling your plastic trash into the garbage pickup truck.....and McDonald's needs drive-through window order takers, you know!...."

Sincerely, your parents, King Kong and Godzilla, recently wed.. to legitimize their many offspring...[recently, in a lake of molten discarded electronic circuit boards and batteries, as The Iron Giant melts like The Terminator, and the enormous gorilla with lifelike fur dissolves in evanescent, liquid Imagination.....]

it's about the disconnect between hemispheres, perhaps, that produces the illusion that Fantasy is already Reality, with the metaphorical assumption that Reality is, perhaps, a Fantasy to begin with.......99.9999999999% of everything is just Nothingness floated on Waves of Probabilities........

https://veristes.blogspot.com/.../unzipping-brain-to...

Thursday, January 2, 2025

A SUMMER'S TALE (Conte d'été) by Eric Rohmer--Official US trailer

Melvil Poupaud was the Timothee Chalamet of that Era........I'm surprised that there's not a recent remake of the film, with Chalamet ...as Gaspard....