Brutal. Pitiless. Cruel. Unforgiving. Violent. Savage. Tender. Enchanting. Mesmerizing. Lush. Hopeful. These are just some of the emotions and impressions watching this film triggered. Being a huge Nicolas Roeg fan (Performance, Don’t Look Now, Fahrenheit 451) in all his kaleidoscopic contributions to cinema (director, cinematographer) I’m practically flagellating myself that …
Two recent viewings reminded me I have so much left to discover of classic British cinema, particularly in crime capers: Perfect Friday and The Walking Stick. A nation that produced the theatrical gold standard in William Shakespeare could not fail to produce an endlessly rich and rewarding body of celluloid …
Another episode of that nagging little voice telling me we’re on a slippery slope to a new witchhunt-Red Scare-age of conformity where the ones who stand out from the crowd will be forced to comply, and if they don’t, shunned, banished, persecuted and eventually slain to rid the world of …
Under lockdown I’ve been listening to a lot more of my collection (mp3, CD, LP, streaming) than I have in years. This exercise has compelled me to look back at the earliest formations of my musical tastes, the snatches of song and note from my Fifties-Sixties childhood that would be …
From an RBN host and critical care ICU nurse who also works in ER: N-95 masks have a pore size of 300 nanometers, the coronavirus is between 50-200 nanometers The wild west desperado bandanas seen in public everywhere are 2000 times more porous than the N-95 masks The bandanas give …
Infants slowly expiring in their cribs, surrounded by siblings and parents already dead of the disease, who could no longer care for them but whose corpses had not yet been collected by a city task force overwhelmed with the death toll; adults in rude good health, dying within hours of …
Going out in public with or without a face diaper during government-imposed politically motivated lockdown can be a dangerous act. It feels like everyone out there is on prescription anti-anxiety and anti-depression medication, and the drugs are no longer effective. Everyone, whether compliant or not, is on high alert, on …
I turned 65 last fall. In September I got a persistent dry cough that I took with me on a Mediterranean cruise in Oct. On my return the persistent cough and congestion annoyed me enough that I saw my GP, who said it was viral and couldn’t be treated with …
Mirage (Original Title: Durante La Tormenta)~ A nagging little voice keeps telling me the best films aren’t coming out of Californica anymore, they’re coming from the Old World, like this Spanish import. I’m starting to listen to that voice. To sit entranced for over 2 hours with a subtitled foreign …
A lesson from this lockdown, and from all state-sponsored and -enforced restrictions on free interaction and commerce between individuals: these are opportunities for crooks, charlatans and hackers to make big inroads into the lives of ordinary people. With government, lockdowns are just another chance to expand its power and control …
