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 September 30, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #195 on the list,  David Lynch‘s Erasehead. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 30, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #195 on the list,  David Lynch‘s Erasehead. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 29, 2014

The Babadook is getting some of the same strong early buzz that The Conjuring (which, despite it’s flaws I wound up liking quite a bit) did before it came out, and if it actually lives up to the unsettling tone set by this trailer, then we just might have a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 29, 2014

The Babadook is getting some of the same strong early buzz that The Conjuring (which, despite it’s flaws I wound up liking quite a bit) did before it came out, and if it actually lives up to the unsettling tone set by this trailer, then we just might have a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 27, 2014

Okay, yeah, I get it. Obesity is a nation-wide problem and not something to be laughed at. (Hey, this is coming from a guy who has lost, and kept off, somewhere between 80-100 pounds in the past few years and is still working on losing more. I know it’s a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 27, 2014

Okay, yeah, I get it. Obesity is a nation-wide problem and not something to be laughed at. (Hey, this is coming from a guy who has lost, and kept off, somewhere between 80-100 pounds in the past few years and is still working on losing more. I know it’s a...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 25, 2014

Ah, the wonders of the interwebs rabbit hole. Just the other day I was relatively bored and decided to check out an episode of the venerable detective series Columbo. Noticing a discrepancy between the episode numbers as they appeared on Netflix and on a YouTube posting, (I was looking on...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 25, 2014

Ah, the wonders of the interwebs rabbit hole. Just the other day I was relatively bored and decided to check out an episode of the venerable detective series Columbo. Noticing a discrepancy between the episode numbers as they appeared on Netflix and on a YouTube posting, (I was looking on...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 24, 2014

***Spoiler Warning: Let me just go ahead and state that I will at least in some ways be discussing the ending of this film here, because it is that ending that shapes a large part of my reaction to it, though at the same time, a large part of the...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 24, 2014

***Spoiler Warning: Let me just go ahead and state that I will at least in some ways be discussing the ending of this film here, because it is that ending that shapes a large part of my reaction to it, though at the same time, a large part of the...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 23, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s a double feature, with #008 on the list,  Dziga Vertov‘s Man With a Movie Camera and #011, Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin. For a longer introduction to this series an   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 23, 2014

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s a double feature, with #008 on the list,  Dziga Vertov‘s Man With a Movie Camera and #011, Sergei Eisenstein‘s Battleship Potemkin. For a longer introduction to this series an   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 22, 2014

This week (Sept 21-27) has been designated – by those who decide these things – as Banned Book Week, a time to raise awareness of the sometimes ridiculous and always offensive censorship and/or challenges to certain books, usually not because they pose any real threat, but because there   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 22, 2014

This week (Sept 21-27) has been designated – by those who decide these things – as Banned Book Week, a time to raise awareness of the sometimes ridiculous and always offensive censorship and/or challenges to certain books, usually not because they pose any real threat, but because there   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 20, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ruff and Reddy, a cartoon series that I remember first seeing on weekday mornings when I was a wee lad. Another of my favorite characters from that same time period was Felix the Cat. The Felix that I remember from that time...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 20, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ruff and Reddy, a cartoon series that I remember first seeing on weekday mornings when I was a wee lad. Another of my favorite characters from that same time period was Felix the Cat. The Felix that I remember from that time...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 19, 2014

It’s true, almost 45 years after his initial appearance on silver screens, the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks will be getting his own comic book. Courtesy of publisher Dynamite Entertainment, writer David F. Walker and artist Bilquis Evely, the first issue of Sh   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 19, 2014

It’s true, almost 45 years after his initial appearance on silver screens, the black private dick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks will be getting his own comic book. Courtesy of publisher Dynamite Entertainment, writer David F. Walker and artist Bilquis Evely, the first issue of Sh   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on September 18, 2014

Since I posted an some episodes of The Lone Ranger television show earlier this week in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the show’s star, Clayton Moore, I thought that for today’s feature I’d give you an episode of the Ranger’s descendant’s show, The   read more