August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at Belasco Theatre

by Sam Juliano
When the curtain rises on August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Seth is complaining to his wife Bertha about Bynum, a tenant in their Pittsburgh boardinghouse who kills pigeons for his African rituals.  Seth and Bertha also commiserate about Seth’s night position at the steel mill, and his third job as a tinsmith, [...]

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TV classics – State of Play

 
by Allan Fish
(UK 2003 350m) DVD2 
A missing silver briefcase
p  Hilary Bevan Jones  d  David Yates  w  Paul Abbott  ph  Chris Seager  ed  Mark Day  m  Nicholas Hooper  art  Donal Woods
David Morrissey (Stephen Collins), John Simm (Cal McCaffrey), Kelly MacDonald (Della Smith), Bill Nighy (Cameron Foster), Polly Walker (Anne Collins), Amelia Bullmore (Helen Preger), James McAvoy [...]

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Film Noir Alert!! R. D. Finch Reviews “The Dark Corner,” “Born To Kill,” “Bob Le Flambeur” and “Breathless” at Movie Projector

Film Noir fans at Wonders in the Dark are urged to check out R. D. Finch’s round-up of four noir or neo-noir films at his Movie Projector site.  Mr. Finch has again done a fantastic job in taking an in-depth look at the components of these seminal, and he makes a strong case for them [...]

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TV classics – Red Riding Trilogy

 
by Allan Fish
(UK 2009 306m) DVD2
Aka. 1974, 1980 & 1983
Twinkle, twinkle, little star…
p  Wendy Brazington, Anita Overland  d  Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker  w  Tony Grisoni  novels  David Peace  ph  Rob Hardy  m  Adrian Johnston, Barrington Pheloung  art  Christina Casali
Andrew Garfield (Eddie Dunford), Warren Clarke (Bill Molloy), David Morrissey (Maurice Jobson), Sean Bean (John [...]

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For Fumiko, Noriko, and Kyoko

by Tony d’Ambra
A loving daughter’s gaze
Another day lost in time
forever gone and ever-present
The departing train leaves a dissolving black cloud
Both gone
The mother and the sister she never had
On forged rails of steel that offer no return
the other daughter gifted by fate
holds the mother’s watch
In anguished reminiscence the time-piece ticks away in eternity
as she smiles the [...]

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Jon Lanthier’s Guess the Picture

Jon takes up the baton with this one, answers on a comment as usual…

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TV classics – Funland

 
by Allan Fish
(UK 2005 358m) DVD1/2
Looking for Ambrose Chapel
p  Sanne Wohlenberg  d  Dearbhla Walsh, Susan Tully, Brian Kirk  w  Simon Ashdown, Jeremy Dyson  ph  Lukas Strebel  ed  Emer Reynolds, Tony Cranstoun
Kris Marshall (Dudley Sutton), Ian Puleston Davies (Shirley Woolf), Daniel Mays (Carter Krantz), Roy Barraclough (Onan Van Kneck), Judy Parfitt (Mercy Woolf), Frances Barber (Connie), [...]

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Spectacularly-Successful 1950’s Movie Poll Ends Sunday, March 29th at 11:00 P.M.

by Sam Juliano
     The six week duration of the 1950’s film poll will be ended at 11:00 P.M. on Sunday evening, March 29th.  About 35 ballots have been submitted under the “Movies of the 50’s” link under the site’s header, making it the most successful of any decade poll thus far.  The reviews the poll [...]

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TV classics – Blackpool

 
by Allan Fish
The first in a selection of modern TV classics which will run until the 60s countdown begins…
(UK 2004 352m) DVD2
The Las Vegas of the North
p  Kate Lewis  d  Coky Giedroyc, Julie Anne Robinson  w  Peter Bowker  ph  Lukas Strebel  ed  Anthony Combes, David Rees  m  Robert Lane  art  Grenville Horner
David Morrissey (Ripley Holden), [...]

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Alexander Coleman’s Guess the Picture

For correctly guessing the first one set by Tony, Alexander gets lumbered with the choice for today’s question, and in true cryptic fashion, it’s a real (expletive deleted).
 
 

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