Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Understanding The Lord of the Rings

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Ambush by Justin Gerard. Right now (with a brief diversion into REH for his 120th) it's all Lord of the Rings, all the time. Last weeken...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Tom Barber memoir, LOTR 25th, and more

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A self-portrait from Tom's wild days in the west... Tom Barber’s Artists, Outlaws & Old Timers My friend Tom Barber has a memoir on ...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Silver Key: 2025 in review

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T-800s like it here... but people too. Traffic to the blog EXPLODED in 2025. Unfortunately some of it appears to be robots, likely using my ...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Create for the sake of creating, algorithm be damned; plus 3 cool things

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Some of the YouTube creators I follow have all voiced a similar lament in the past few weeks. Views are plunging. Old video types they used ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The Call of Halloween

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Carved Sunday, ready to light up the night... Halloween always has been and still remains my favorite holiday. Christmas gives it a hell of ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Of Black Sabbath (film) and Ace Frehley

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With the Halloween season upon us I had the urge last night to settle in and watch some horror. I spent the better part of 10 minutes scroll...
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Thursday, October 2, 2025

A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap

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Tap crossed that line... which way? There is a picture of me going to see KISS on their hotly anticipated, sold out 1996 reunion tour. In it...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Top 5 horror movie babes of the 70s and 80s

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I'm howling... I was born in 1973 and by the mid-80s developed a taste for horror films. It was a time when werewolves and slashers were...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

Disconnect

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“Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.” “I've been to a town Del.” --Jeremiah Johnson Technology has ta...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

A sorely needed, swordly-and-sorcerous week off

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It's 5 o'clock somewhere ... My grandfather had fabulous foresight. After WW2 he and his buddy bought a piece of property in the lak...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

The day Hannah met Sam Gamgee (and called to tell me)

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My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English  soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far sup...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Death gives meaning to life

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Roy Batty is pissed. He is the peak of what a replicant can be. Brilliant and reflective. Handsome and powerful, a physical specimen. But de...
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Monday, February 3, 2025

Knightriders, a review

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(Warning: Spoilers) Utopias cannot survive contact with the world of commerce. It’s a message delivered in brutal fashion in the catastrophi...
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Silver Key: 2024 in review

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Life is pretty good these days, both personally and creatively. Even though I slowed down a bit on the blog, I’m making an impact. Life is i...
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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Some interpretations of the ambiguous ending of The Green Knight (2021)

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If you haven’t seen The Green Knight , and don’t wish to be spoiled, stop here before you enter the Green Chapel and its perils. Thou hast b...
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