What is it with the Kiwis and kids’ names?   I have previously discussed this at: http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/search?q=talula   The Sydn...

Terminator 2:   Judgment Day (1981) Comment: The best part of this movie is the opening sequence (see the link below)), although the Sara...

    Never follow somebody else’s path; it doesn’t work the same way twice for anyone. . . the path follows you and rolls up behind you as yo...

RED (2010) Comment: A short while back I mentioned that I like chick flicks.   That may make me a SNAG, although I believe that that conce...

The above statue of Marilyn Monroe in her famous billowing skirt pose from the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch has been unveiled in Chica...

Ronin (1998) Comment: Robert De Niro + a tight script + one of the best car chases in film + a lot of action = a very watchable movie.   ...

  “What I can't understand is why a fellow would want to get out of jail to get married, which is like a life sentence anyway.” -   ...

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Comment: One of the best court room dramas that you will ever see, plus a killer ending, well worth wat...

The Breakfast Club (1985) Comment: Yep, I know that this is a teen chick flick and that there are all sorts of reasons not to like it, bu...

Pyrmont Bridge, Sydney about 1904  (Photo also used in last week's post.  Click on photo to enlarge). The following article is lengthy ...

(The following includes swearing). A teacher addresses her primary school class:   “Class, the lesson now is spelling.   I would like each...

Labyrinth   (1986) Comments: A box office flop, returning only $12m on its $25m production costs, and a so-so movie as far as the critics ...

"Use what talent you possess.  The world would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -  Henry van Dyke ...

How Green Was My Valley   (1941) Comments:   What a year for best Movie nominations:   Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion, Sergea...

Thanks to social media, we are no longer obliged to disguise our voyeuristic impulses. Voyeurism has been culturally legitimized. We can t...

Hoosiers (1986) Comment: If this movie doesn’t have you out of your seat and cheering at the end, then you must be made of stone.   Not on...

Enemy Mine (1985) Comment: This movie was a financial disaster for 20 th Century Fox and was panned by the critics.   Nonetheless I like...

From Wikipedia: News of the World: The News of the World was a national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom by News Grou...

12 Monkeys (1995) Comment: Despite the problem of  what is known as the Grandfather Paradox - that if a person travelled back in time and...

Pyrmont Bridge c 1904 (Click on the images to enlarge) Until the advent of the motor vehicle, the principal means of transportation, whe...

High Noon (1952) Comment: Not only a good western and a good film generally, although it remains hated by rednecks even today, it is also...