Can we talk about how nice is Jeff Bridges' singing voice, even after all these years?

Then (The Last Unicorn, 1982): High, sweet tenor, very untrained and a little tonally unsteady, but I think lovely, nonetheless:

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Now (Crazy Heart, 2009): Morphed into a Springsteen-esque plaintive yowl, but still a nice, warm, husky tenor (though sometimes he ( Read more... )

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I was definitely just socked in the gut with this one. I'm feeling very guilty over the fact that I must have watched this film over and over again, until the point when my family wanted to just strangle me and put themselves out of their own misery.

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This next one I also watched, pretty much until the tape broke. But it holds up much more to the ( Read more... )

Hi. Do you know who Richard Brooks is off the top of your head? I do. He's one of my favorite American directors. I'd like to introduce you to him. Ready? Watch these, if for some reason you haven't already:

~ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Elizabeth Taylor. Paul Newman. Lots of sweat and alcohol and guilt and repressed emotions, just the way Tennessee ( Read more... )

In an interview about his Lemony Snicket soundtrack:

(Talking about kids liking the Gothic Archies songs)
Reporter: I'm sure they're going to love the music as well.
Merritt: They better.
Reporter: They better, or else.
Merritt: Exactly.
Reporter: Something dark could happen to them.
(beat)
Merritt: Something dark will happen to them anyway.

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I read many a spectacular book this past year. In looking on my Goodreads site, which I love because it allows me to make nerdy lists and categories for the various things I peruse throughout the year, from 12-page comics to 1200 page doorstops, here are the novels/graphic novels that I rated the highest (4 or 5 stars), in no particular order. I ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning and felt as if someone had turned my body to stone. And it wasn't unpleasant. It was that weighty lethargy that comes from a good night's sleep. Unfortunately, I don't think my body had finished sleeping yet, so it was nigh on impossible to rouse myself from the cocoony warmth of my deliriously comfortable bed. I ended up ( Read more... )

I'm usually, at least once a day, gripped by some remembered line from one of Richard Adams' books (I had been thinking of "Shardik" a lot recently, because reading a Stephen King novel always does that to me, and also recently reading Dan Timmons's "The Terror", about a God-like, vicious Polar Bear). Today it was "Plague Dogs", being that I had a ( Read more... )

Two years ago I listed my top 10 Christmas movies of all time. I think I still pretty much agree with my choices. Actually, I'm sure I do. Though the one film I can't really believe I left off is that classic Muppet staple, "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas". I would include this excellent Christmas special along with The '66 Grinch and "The ( Read more... )

I'm sad that the Buffy animated series never got off the ground. Maybe now that Twilight and Trueblood and Vampire Diaries are all ridiculously popular, they could find some network willing to buy it?! I vote for Cartoon Network ( Read more... )