Sometime in New York City is tough to get through but starts well

In Bruges was ace but what about another two films by the McDonagh brothers and with the incomparable Brendan Gleeson in them:

The Guard
Calvary

Others of mine are:
Snowpiercer
Before Midnight (the best […]

Has definitely been posted here before but the comedian Steve Hughes is good on this

I love that piece. Elicits the same feeling as the sequence in Keith Jarret’s Kolm concert from around 7 minutes in. Both seem to acknowledge through grunts and sighs that they are in heaven.

“I think Michelle may have sealed it for Hilary Clinton here”

I wish you were right. Michael Moore has an alternative depressing view although he has not always been right:

I think we all know this is actually the ball of the century

Gooch, who has never been noted for his wicked humour, said about that ball at the time, “If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him”

Excellent call on Napoleon Wilson in AOP13. He is a veritable smorgasbord of lines.

“Can’t argue with a confident man” or “In my situation, days are like women – each one’s so damn precious, but they all end […]

Well why not just one more while we are still here.

Nils Frahm is amazing. Have a listen to the extraordinary For–Peter–Toilet Brushes–More as well from the same album Spaces. It ends with a Keith Jarre […]

That piano has certainly been given a good good going over. It looks older than him.

Two from me.

First is another piano piece. I caught this flicking through the channels in the early 1990s after a few sherbets. The tune appeared in an obscure Manga/live action film called Angels Never Sleep. […]

The Trinity Tiddlers

Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh
Jacko
Badger (bought it at the first Ypres)
Bumfluff (copped a packet at Galipoli with the Aussies)
Sticky (out for a duck)
The Gubber […]

See above. I go with Night Moves for Hackman and Sorcerer takes care of Friedkin. So no Exorcist. I can live with that.

Leaving Las Vegas for me. Not too many in it, best Cage performance and has the added bonus of Elisabeth Shue.

I’ll see your Wages of Fear and raise you Sorcerer…

How about swapping Network for The Hospital (much less well known but just as biting)? That takes care of George C Scott and also has Diana Rigg in her pomp (ooo errr..).

Television – Marquee Moon & Adventure

Three films from the 70s for me…all of them deeply cynical about the state of the US then post Watergate. The US probably need more like them now.

Night Moves
The Parallax View
Network

Night Moves is […]

This is Marina Hyde’s take from the Grauniad:

All we need now is Mourinho at Man Utd and Simeone at Chelsea. That should provide a bit of spice for next season.