Blown away by BIRDMAN…
Blown away by BIRDMAN and the talented Michael Keaton…what an actor!
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VOTING SEASON HERE AGAIN
Where has the year gone? It is voting season again and the serious Movie watching starts. The distributors usually save many of their films till this time of the year for release, hoping for Oscar nominations, from the Voters. I watched THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING , the Stephen Hawking story, or at least the first…
BACK IN THE US AGAIN
Just got back to the USA again after an eventful and very interesting trip to to the UK. Things are changing rapidly in the country, people are moving out of the capital, London, because property prices have risen so much that many cannot afford not to sell and move to the country or smaller cities.…
BACK ACROSS THE POND AGAIN
I am off back to London this week. I have been invited to appear and sign pictures at Hammer Films 80th anniversary at Westminster Hall. I am looking forward to it, sounds like fun and I hope to see a few old faces, hopefully there will be plenty of us still left……a few have left us,…
LIVING IN THE PRESENT
Heard Michael Keaton on the radio this morning talking about his latest film BIRDMAN. I haven’t seen it yet, but I have always admired him, he is an imaginative and daring actor. Daring is something I always found a bit difficult, but the freer you are, the better you are. Keaton was talking about living…
A Movie Above the Rest
I just saw GONE GIRL having read the book. I am a fan of all the principals involved: Ben Affleck, David Fincher and Rosamund Pike and hats off to Kim Dickens as the senior Detective. This is a grown up film for grown up people and how we have mired ourself in a world…
TV NOW AND THEN
Back from LA and a profitable and very hot trip. Temperatures into the 100’s glad I was by the sea. Met some very good and helpful casting people. Had a good walk by my loved Pacific Ocean and got a good dose of sea air. Miss the sea, wherever I am. I have been trying…
Women’s Lib and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hello everyone…my video blogging is improving slowly!!! Here’s another one:
THE CLOUD AND THE NAKED BODY
There has been a great kerfuffle later over Actresses’ nude pictures being hacked from Apple’s ICloud. To repeat myself, if you don’t want hackers/people to find photographs of you in the nude, don’t have them taken in the first place! I am a big fan of Apple, I am not a big fan of the…
Chatting about Ambrose Bierce
Now that I have started video blogging in earnest, promoting newchillingtales.com and my films therein, it’s a real journey of discovery….does the video work, does it sound right, I am improvising, no scripts to read from…haven’t figured that one out yet. Working out the light, the background etc. On the advice of Jake Kuwana the…