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I grew up watching the original Mission Impossible on television. I used to love it! The great theme song by Lalo Schifrin, Peter Graves’ stoic Jim Phelps, the masks, the twists, the women! I had such a crush on Lynda Day George and Lesley Ann Warren. When they did a big screen version in 1995 […]

The first Sicario (2015) was a dark and gloomy drama about a naive FBI agent (Emily Blunt) who gets schooled on the realities of the drug war on the US-Mexico border. It was beautifully shot of Roger Deakins, well written by Taylor Sheridan (Hell Or High Water) and directed by Denis Vilenueve (Blade Runner 2). […]

The Ocean films were stylish and suave and good fun. The new all female version delivers the same goods! Sandra Bullock is just as enigmatic as Cooney. Cate Blanchett doesn’t get too much to do but it’s obvious that she and Bullock’s character are sometimes lovers which is an interesting twist. Director Gary Ross does […]

“Is this now?” Bernard WTF??!! Westward capped off a challenging and confusing season with the most challenging and confusing season finale of any series since the original Twin Peaks. I had two friends over to watch with me and as the episode ended one was silent with a bemused look on her face and the […]

“Then one day it was there: a stain I didn’t see before.” William What I’ve noticed this season is how different the directing styles of this year’s episodes have been from last seasons. Almost every episode has had it’s own feel and pace. This one is no different. WILLIAM “I’m not a host pretending to […]

“I have a good feeling about this!” Han Solo I’m a big Star Wars fan! I went to see the first one the first week it came out when I was just a wee lad. Every Star Wars film release has always been an event. In recent years, however, Marvel has inundated the market with […]

I watched films Paul Schrader either wrote or directed or both before I knew who Paul Schrader was and definitely before i was old enough to be seeing those films. Again I credit The Z Channel for both the shaping of my film education and warping of my soul. He wrote Taxi Driver (1976) and […]

“Death is a passage from this brutal world. You don’t deserve the exit” Akecheta to William This was a powerful episode. It was also very different from what has come before, most notably, due to most of the episode being in the Lakota Indian language and subtitles. “Kiksuya’ means ‘remember’ in Lakota and wifehood that […]