Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 22, 2014

Hot on the heels of the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, here’s a new poster, too: No, I don’t find any of this exciting at all. (Yeah, right…)   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 22, 2014

Hot on the heels of the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, here’s a new poster, too: No, I don’t find any of this exciting at all. (Yeah, right…)   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 22, 2014

Supposedly this trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron wasn’t going to premiere until next week’s Agents of Shield, but here it is, and yep, it’s official. Marvel says to blame Hydra, but personally from the looks of things, I’d say blame Tony. Whatever the reason, I’d go   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 20, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #015 on the list,  Yasujirō Ozu‘s Late Spring. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 20, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #015 on the list,  Yasujirō Ozu‘s Late Spring. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 18, 2014

If the Internet had been around in 1965, I suspect that rather than talking about a show “jumping the shark“, we would instead be talking about it “Gazooing”. The Great Gazoo first appeared approximately halfway through the Flintstones TV show’s final season of it&#8217   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 18, 2014

If the Internet had been around in 1965, I suspect that rather than talking about a show “jumping the shark“, we would instead be talking about it “Gazooing”. The Great Gazoo first appeared approximately halfway through the Flintstones TV show’s final season of it&#8217   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 14, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #015 on the list,  Yasujirō Ozu‘s Late Spring. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 14, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #015 on the list,  Yasujirō Ozu‘s Late Spring. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 11, 2014

I’m (really this time) not going to say a lot today about Woody Woodpecker. Personally, I always found him more than a little annoying. On the other hand, I know a lot of people love(d) him. Here;s about 45 minutes worth of Woody cartoons. I’ll let you judge for yourselves...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 11, 2014

I’m (really this time) not going to say a lot today about Woody Woodpecker. Personally, I always found him more than a little annoying. On the other hand, I know a lot of people love(d) him. Here;s about 45 minutes worth of Woody cartoons. I’ll let you judge for yourselves...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 9, 2014

What you see above is the opening of the format that I remember for Disney’s weekly showcase. Yeah, we’re once again tripping back to that mythical pre-cable time, a time when The Disney Channel would have been… well, I started to say it would have been but a gleam in...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 9, 2014

What you see above is the opening of the format that I remember for Disney’s weekly showcase. Yeah, we’re once again tripping back to that mythical pre-cable time, a time when The Disney Channel would have been… well, I started to say it would have been but a gleam in...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 4, 2014

Sigh… I suppose it could be considered somewhat ironic that just a few weeks after I started this series the concept of the Saturday Morning Cartoon has been declared officially dead. Of course, as far as the three “major” networks that I grew up watching these cartoons on, the Sat   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 4, 2014

Sigh… I suppose it could be considered somewhat ironic that just a few weeks after I started this series the concept of the Saturday Morning Cartoon has been declared officially dead. Of course, as far as the three “major” networks that I grew up watching these cartoons on, the Sat   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 3, 2014

It;s been a big week for trailers as the studios begin to hit high gear pimping their fall/winter releases. Rather than individual posts for each of these, I thought I’d just do a quick round-up with short comments on some of the ones that have hot my desk recently: First...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 3, 2014

It;s been a big week for trailers as the studios begin to hit high gear pimping their fall/winter releases. Rather than individual posts for each of these, I thought I’d just do a quick round-up with short comments on some of the ones that have hit my desk recently: First...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 2, 2014

To say that the Stuart Gordon movie Re-Animator is one of my all-time favorite “guilty pleasure” movies would be putting it mildly. Taking as it’s basis (very loosely indeed) the original story by H. P. Lovecraft, the movie goes so far over the top that by it’s end you can...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 2, 2014

Last week I mentioned that I had run across The Chevy Mystery Show while looking for an episode of Columbo to feature in this space. (The first television portrayal of the famous detective took place on that show.) This week, we get to the rumpled detective himself, as portrayed most...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 2, 2014

To say that the Stuart Gordon movie Re-Animator is one of my all-time favorite “guilty pleasure” movies would be putting it mildly. Taking as it’s basis (very loosely indeed) the original story by H. P. Lovecraft, the movie goes so far over the top that by it’s end you can...   read more