Spitball Army

watched Oct 13, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.4 [DVD, Netflix] The sea will swallow you whole, says this bleak, grey and miserable little movie, which uses a plaintive and bare minor-key piano & violin score to drive the figurative point home. https://boxd.it/kOtdN

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watched Oct 13, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 4.4 [blu-ray, Netflix] This one was a motley motley, with overall good intentions, and sweet with no ambitious message. Which is to say that it seemed to me like a generally inoffensive TV pilot that never made it to its first season, and was remembered by no one. […]

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watched Oct 11, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 4.9 [on-demand, TCM] Entertaining, and not as bad as the cheap production value would lead you to believe. This Dracula is a charming social phobic, an Eastern European version of Fernando Lamas, who’s not so afraid of fur balls that he won’t suck the life out of […]

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Drive-By Truckers “Three Dimes Down” Elvis Costello “Peace in Our Time (demo)” The New Pornographers “Marching Orders” Todd Rundgren “Couldn’t I Just Tell You” Patty Griffin “Making Pies (live)” Grace Jones “Nipple to the Bottle (12″ version)” The Eternals “Babalu’s Wedding Day” Rufus Wainwright “Respectable Dive” Joni Mitchell “Conversation” The Honey Cone “Stick-Up” Earth, Wind […]

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watched Oct 10, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.9 [blu-ray] So, when the boy turns into a bear (which is not much of a spoiler), the aspect ratio of the movie switches from windowboxed 1.75:1 (or thereabouts) to a panoramic 2.35:1…signifying what, exactly? The entry into a fantastical world, like the black-and-white to color […]

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watched Oct 10, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 3.1 [DVD, library] It’s hard to believe that I’ve gone 44 years without seeing this, especially since the original stage concept recording was a much beloved LP in our house while I was growing up – my sister had the sheet music and played it more often […]

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watched Oct 10, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 8.9 [theater] Viewed in 2D. The visuals and sound were phenomenal, and kudos to the writing team for creating a unique story that branched out of the original with ease. The only weak link was Jared Leto’s character, who teetered on the edge of megalomaniacal stereotype […]

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watched Oct 10, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 8.1 [DVD, Netflix] A black & white cold-war nuclear bomb scenario from the early 1960s: unlike DR. STRANGELOVE, there is not an ounce of humor, but like that other film, there IS fighting in the war room. “The producers of this film wish to stress that it is […]

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The Who “Tommy Can You Hear Me?” Bob Dylan “Foot of Pride (live)” Steve Winwood “Higher Love” Lewis Taylor “Back Together” The Flamingos “Hey Now!” Cilla Black “You’re My World” PF Sloan “Halloween Mary” Roger Waters “Deja Vu” Randy Newman “Suzanne” The Damnwells “Lost” The Youngbloods “Grizzly Bear” Bob Dylan “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (live, […]

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watched Oct 09, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.8 [on-demand] BEATRIZ boasts a magnificent fake-out ending that had me cheering, and I felt dirty and nasty for doing so. But the film’s true ending is a total downer that I interpreted as an allegory for the current hopelessness of the lower and immigrant classes […]

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