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Classic Television Thursday #007 – Columbo: Murder Under Glass
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Oct 2, 2014
Last week I mentioned that I had run across The Chevy Mystery Show while looking for an episode of Columbo to feature in this space. (The first television portrayal of the famous detective took place on that show.) This week, we get to the rumpled detective himself, as portrayed most famously by Pet read more
Top 250 Tuesday – #195 Eraserhead (1977)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 30, 2014
Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #195 on the list, David Lynch‘s Erasehead. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I’ll be read more
Top 250 Tuesday – #195 Eraserhead (1977)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 30, 2014
Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #195 on the list, David Lynch‘s Erasehead. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I’ll be read more
Knock Knock, Knock, Dook, Dook, Dook – Here’s The New Trailer For The Babadook (2014)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 29, 2014
The Babadook is getting some of the same strong early buzz that The Conjuring (which, despite it’s flaws I wound up liking quite a bit) did before it came out, and if it actually lives up to the unsettling tone set by this trailer, then we just might have a winner here. Of course, one might w read more
Knock Knock, Knock, Dook, Dook, Dook – Here’s The New Trailer For The Babadook (2014)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 29, 2014
The Babadook is getting some of the same strong early buzz that The Conjuring (which, despite it’s flaws I wound up liking quite a bit) did before it came out, and if it actually lives up to the unsettling tone set by this trailer, then we just might have a winner here. Of course, one might w read more
Saturday Morning Cartoons #006 – Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (1975 – 1982)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 27, 2014
Okay, yeah, I get it. Obesity is a nation-wide problem and not something to be laughed at. (Hey, this is coming from a guy who has lost, and kept off, somewhere between 80-100 pounds in the past few years and is still working on losing more. I know it’s a problem.) That, of course, is why Fat read more
Saturday Morning Cartoons #006 – Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (1975 – 1982)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 27, 2014
Okay, yeah, I get it. Obesity is a nation-wide problem and not something to be laughed at. (Hey, this is coming from a guy who has lost, and kept off, somewhere between 80-100 pounds in the past few years and is still working on losing more. I know it’s a problem.) That, of course, is why Fat read more
Classic Television Thursday #006 – The Chevy Mystery Show: The Suicide Club (1960)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 25, 2014
Ah, the wonders of the interwebs rabbit hole. Just the other day I was relatively bored and decided to check out an episode of the venerable detective series Columbo. Noticing a discrepancy between the episode numbers as they appeared on Netflix and on a YouTube posting, (I was looking on YouTube be read more
Classic Television Thursday #006 – The Chevy Mystery Show: The Suicide Club (1960)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 25, 2014
Ah, the wonders of the interwebs rabbit hole. Just the other day I was relatively bored and decided to check out an episode of the venerable detective series Columbo. Noticing a discrepancy between the episode numbers as they appeared on Netflix and on a YouTube posting, (I was looking on YouTube be read more
Blue Can Also Be Very Cold – Blue Is The Warmest Colour (2013)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 24, 2014
***Spoiler Warning: Let me just go ahead and state that I will at least in some ways be discussing the ending of this film here, because it is that ending that shapes a large part of my reaction to it, though at the same time, a large part of the film is more about the experience of seeing it, than read more
Blue Can Also Be Very Cold – Blue Is The Warmest Colour (2013)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 24, 2014
***Spoiler Warning: Let me just go ahead and state that I will at least in some ways be discussing the ending of this film here, because it is that ending that shapes a large part of my reaction to it, though at the same time, a large part of the film is more about the experience of seeing it, than read more
Top 250 Tuesday – #008 Man With A Movie Camera (1929) and #011 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 23, 2014
Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s a double feature, with #008 on the list, Dziga Vertov‘s Man With a Movie Camera and #011, Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin. For a longer introduction to this series an read more
Top 250 Tuesday – #008 Man With A Movie Camera (1929) and #011 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 23, 2014
Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s a double feature, with #008 on the list, Dziga Vertov‘s Man With a Movie Camera and #011, Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin. For a longer introduction to this series an read more
Banned Books Week DurnMoose Style – Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 22, 2014
This week (Sept 21-27) has been designated – by those who decide these things – as Banned Book Week, a time to raise awareness of the sometimes ridiculous and always offensive censorship and/or challenges to certain books, usually not because they pose any real threat, but because there read more
Banned Books Week DurnMoose Style – Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 22, 2014
This week (Sept 21-27) has been designated – by those who decide these things – as Banned Book Week, a time to raise awareness of the sometimes ridiculous and always offensive censorship and/or challenges to certain books, usually not because they pose any real threat, but because there read more
Saturday Morning Cartoons #005 – Felix The Cat: Woos Whoopie
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 20, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ruff and Reddy, a cartoon series that I remember first seeing on weekday mornings when I was a wee lad. Another of my favorite characters from that same time period was Felix the Cat. The Felix that I remember from that time and still love with a fog of nostalgia read more
Saturday Morning Cartoons #005 – Felix The Cat: Woos Whoopie
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 20, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ruff and Reddy, a cartoon series that I remember first seeing on weekday mornings when I was a wee lad. Another of my favorite characters from that same time period was Felix the Cat. The Felix that I remember from that time and still love with a fog of nostalgia read more
“I’m Talking About…” Shaft’s Upcoming New Comic Book
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 19, 2014
It’s true, almost 45 years after his initial appearance on silver screens, the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks will be getting his own comic book. Courtesy of publisher Dynamite Entertainment, writer David F. Walker and artist Bilquis Evely, the first issue of Sh read more
“I’m Talking About…” Shaft’s Upcoming New Comic Book
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 19, 2014
It’s true, almost 45 years after his initial appearance on silver screens, the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks will be getting his own comic book. Courtesy of publisher Dynamite Entertainment, writer David F. Walker and artist Bilquis Evely, the first issue of Sh read more
Classic Television Thursday #005 – The Green Hornet: The Hornet and The Firefly (1966)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Sep 18, 2014
Since I posted an some episodes of The Lone Ranger television show earlier this week in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the show’s star, Clayton Moore, I thought that for today’s feature I’d give you an episode of the Ranger’s descendant’s show, The read more