Bibliography due for Sept 13th
Bennetts, Leslie. “’The Untouchables’: De Palma’s Departure.” The New York Times, June 6, 1987,...
View ArticleA Movie is Chosen
In late breaking news, UMW Senior Sara Gross, an American Studies major, finally chose a movie on which to base her HIST329 semester project. Gross initially indicated a desire to analyze the 1992...
View ArticleThe Patriot tweets (except on a blog)
Susan: I shake my head at you and your inability to make a rocking chair Because anyone can run into a burning building, get exactly what they need and not get stopped by a hot spot. Totally normal...
View ArticleTweets from Amistad
Any scene is more dramatic in the rain… Let me sneak by your dinner party unnoticed…on a ship…full of captured African people….. JQA…my hero…catching a cat nap but still paying attention Someone is...
View ArticleThoughts on Amistad
Just nitpicking, but Cinque certainly did seem to know an awful lot about celestial navigation. Enough to attack the Spaniards and turn the ship east in the middle of the night… That was one snazzy...
View ArticleConcert and a Movie (Glory) Tonight – 9/28
I know it’s a week early and SUPER short notice – but Andrew McKnight – a great folk musician, is playing a concert TONIGHT at the Shenandoah Museum in Winchester before the screening of next week’s...
View ArticleOh Fiddle dee dee!
There is a quitting time for working in the fields? Rhett Butler—best timing ever! Let me save my parrot as I flee Atlanta! Rhett…why did you have to break my heart and join the army? At the most...
View ArticleGlory, Hallelujah!
I did have a battle today, that wasn’t bull****. It was against the Southern secessionists. Now, I’m not Southern, I don’t plan on being Southern, so who gives a crap if they’re secessionist? They...
View ArticleOh my darling Clementine
So first off, this movie is based on a screenplay, which is based on an account, which is based on a “biography.” This film is closer to Kevin Bacon than it is to Wyatt Earp. Secondly, clothes, really,...
View ArticleThoughts on “Best Years”
Honestly, this movie was too serious and well-handled for me to consider snarking through. The only thing I noticed that was weird, but irrelevant, was that Homer’s ribbons weren’t right. He had all of...
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