by Dave | Jan 9, 2016 | Wicked Witches |
Evelyn Poole: Hello, Dolly! Evelyn Poole (aka, “Madame Kali” — sorry if that’s a spoiler for folks who’ve not yet watched the series), played by Helen McCrory, is the particularly nasty leader of a coven of witches in PENNY DREADFUL...
by Dave | Jan 8, 2016 | Wicked Witches |
Glinda: Living in a Bubble Okay, so we’ve been sharing some various literally evil wicked witches, so I figured we had to give a good (?) witch a shout-out, and I had to go with Glinda the Good Witch of the North (Billie Burke) from THE WIZARD OF OZ. She’s...
by Dave | Jan 7, 2016 | Wicked Witches |
Minnie Castevet: The Neighbor from Hell Who doesn’t know ROSEMARY’S BABY by now, right? It’s based on the book by Ira Levin, and one of the best characters in that classic horror movie was Minnie Castevet (Ruth Gordon). Gordon’s portrayal of...
by Dave | Jan 6, 2016 | Wicked Witches |
Lady Van Tassel: Determined to Get Ahead Tim Burton’s SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) is a fun, Halloween-heavy horror-thriller romp that happens to feature a particularly villainous witch in the personage of the Lady Van Tassel (Miranda Richardson). I can’t imagine...
by Dave | Jan 5, 2016 | Wicked Witches |
Circe: Guaranteed to Put You Through Some Changes Circe is one of our favorite witches of mythology. What’s not to love? Daughter of Helios, god of the sun and possibly even daughter of Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, herself (we’ll get to Hecate later)....
by Dave | Jan 4, 2016 | Wicked Witches |
Endora: The Curse of the Magical Mother-in-Law From 1960s campy, witchy sitcom, BEWITCHED, Endora, played to the hilt by Agnes Moorehead, played Samantha’s mother and the perennial antagonist of her husband, Darrin. She makes no bones about her disapproval of...
by Dave | Dec 29, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
I really, really wanted to like THE HATEFUL EIGHT. I’m a fan of various Tarantino works, despite his various nervous tics as a director. I absolutely love DJANGO UNCHAINED — I think that’s his masterpiece. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is a great time, and I even...
by Dave | Dec 27, 2015 | Sidenotes |
The trends of the 1970s get more crystallized by 1972, with Gilbert O’ Sullivan’s lovelorn “Alone Again (Naturally)” representing, along with Al Green’s soulful “Let’s Stay Together.” The Hollies bring some old-school...
by Dave | Dec 21, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
I finally got around to catching the Wachowskis grandiose bomb of a movie, Jupiter Ascending. After blowing it off in the theaters (along with most of the world), and wanting to watch something OTHER than the new Star Wars movie, I picked up Jupiter Ascending,...
by Dave | Dec 18, 2015 | Sidenotes |
Now we’re moving into the 1970s proper after the gateway of 1970, where the long shadow of the 1960s still carries on, but you can see some of the patterns that would dominate the decade emerging in the music. You’ve got Rod “the Mod” Stewart...
by Dave | Dec 14, 2015 | Sidenotes |
Playing with the 70s theme of BLOOD, SWEAT & FEARS, we’ll post a few songs by year, starting with 1970, just for a workable soundtrack for any would-be contributors. I picked ones across the spectrum, from Rock and Pop tunes to others evocative of the time....
by Dave | Dec 11, 2015 | Movie Reviews |
I finally got around to catching INTERSTELLAR after having avoiding it when it was released. I can’t exactly say why I avoided it, since I usually flock to any decent-looking Science Fiction when I see it, but some combination of the Christopher Nolan-level of...
