The day before yesterday’s date, July 2, 2025, will be a footnote in history if, God willing, we have a history. On this day, hip hop impresario Sean Diddy Combs skated on the most serious charges in his human trafficking and sex racketeering trial. Mr. Combs was swatted with a conviction of transporting a person […]
Fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine… She had always thought her mother’s vanity was cherry. So when she passed, Lonna bought a stool for it. Naturally, she paid for solid cherry. Come to find out, the wood was a less expensive poplar painted with a cherry finish. Sixty-four, sixty–five, sixty-six… Then she had to find another poplar one […]
The Coen brothers are quite enamored with the droll Texan archetype. West Texan archetype to be exact. Case in point…pretty much the whole cast of No Country for Old Men (2007). I could go on with these quotes ad nauseum. I’m sure you could too. But this post isn’t about No Country for Old Men. […]
He downshifted and whipped into the oncoming traffic lane. Head to head with the Honda, he released the throttle and put pedal to medal. There would be no questioning if he got pulled over. Maybe a gentle scolding, but that would be that. He bisected the solid yellow line a good distance ahead of the […]
It was one of the weird things he thought about when he used to stay in high end hotels…had there ever been clothes in the dresser? …or chest of drawers as some called it. Like so many other things, it had to be quantified before he guessed. Was he staying in a standard room? If […]
He reached out the window of the Mercury Montego and hung up the pay phone. Big rain splotches darkened the sleeve of his Coastal Mist windbreaker, though he didn’t have to reach far. It was one of four payphones in town, all at Circle K’s, that you could roll right up to and not even […]
Titles are important. Take the action/thriller Snakes on a Plane. Screenwriter David Dalessandro shopped his screenplay Venom for five years before a big production house took a serious look. But it wasn’t until more seasoned writers Sebastian Gutierrez and John Heffernan renamed it that the ball really got rolling. Here’s what Samuel L. Jackson said […]
I want to invite you guys to listen to a new episode from my podcast, I Heard It In A Movie. In this episode you will hear commentary about and needle drops from the movies: The Big Lebowski I, Tonya Mean Streets The Silence of the Lambs Lady Bird and more… Hope you enjoy–and thanks […]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ngduv-182b495 Commentary About and Needle Drops From Movies The Big Lebowski Lady Bird Mean Streets I, Tonya The Silence of the Lambs And More…
All Things Thriller 