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‘The Passenger’
will please refrain

March 10, 2023 by Dave Knadler 2 Comments

I’m always conflicted before starting a Cormac McCarthy book. Although he’s one of America’s best writers, his world view tends toward bleakness and nihilism – to an extent that can be off-putting even for a natural-born pessimist like myself. Let’s just say his books have never left me whistling the theme from “Andy Griffith.” […]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, Writing

Floaters in the stream

March 6, 2023 by Dave Knadler 2 Comments

Because everything else in the news is pissing me off, I’ll post these drive-by reviews of some shows I’ve been streaming lately:  “Smile” (Amazon Prime). I love a good horror movie. The key word being “good.” “Smile” is not good. It is actually quite bad, but just short of bad enough to be enjoyed […]

Filed Under: Movies, tv

A is for ‘Artificial’

February 18, 2023 by Dave Knadler

You’ve probably heard about the New York Times reporter who was creeped out by his conversation with Microsoft’s new chatbot.  The reporter kept pressing questions to which there was no factual answer, and the chatbot eventually started returning responses that, if uttered by a person, would seem kind of ominous. That includes professing love […]

Filed Under: american life, internet, luddite rants, Movies, social media

The cold, hard West

January 26, 2023 by Dave Knadler

annie proulx short stories in "Fine Just the Way It Is"

Who’s the most famous writer you’ve never read? I can think of a few offhand, but now I can cross one off the list: Annie Proulx. A good friend sent me a book of her short stories the other day: “Fine Just the Way it Is.”  I’m about halfway through it. I love that […]

Filed Under: Books, montana, Movies, short stories, writers, Writing

One enchanted evening

January 9, 2023 by Dave Knadler

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

We watched “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” last night, thus ending my 57-year streak of not watching it. When someone else grabs the remote, you sometimes end up viewing stuff you might not choose alone. Here’s the IMDb synopsis: “A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel […]

Filed Under: drinking, Movies

Joan of dark

July 10, 2017 by Dave Knadler

joan crawford in sudden fear film noir

Film noir of the week is “Sudden Fear,” starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. You weren’t aware of Film Noir of the Week? Yeah, that’s something I just came up with. I fully expect to forget about it over the next few days. Anyway, “Sudden Fear” is a perfectly respectable noir, made in 1951 […]

Filed Under: film noir, Movies

Nope. Definitely not a masterpiece.

September 13, 2016 by Dave Knadler

Thirty six years after it was made, the wife and I realized we had never actually watched “Heaven’s Gate,” the 1980 Michael Cimino film that pretty much burned everything it ever touched except, somehow, Christopher Walken’s career. The movie is now viewable on Netflix. I thought, well, it has a solid cast and that […]

Filed Under: Movies, westerns

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