The Tragedy of Macbeth, posted on January 20, 2022
One Night in Miami, posted on January 21, 2021
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, posted on
December 7, 2017
12 Years a Slave, posted on November 14, 2013
Vice, posted on January 10, 2019
Baby Driver, posed on July 6, 2017
BlacKkKlansman, posted on August 16, 2018
Black Mass, posted on October 3, 2015
Black Panther, posted on February 22, 2018
Black Souls, posted on April 23, 2015
Call Me by Your Name, posted on January 4, 2018
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, posted on October 15, 2020
The Death of Stalin, posted on March 21, 2018
Detainment, posted on February 21, 2019
Detroit, posted on August 9, 2017
The Devil All the Time, posted on September 24, 2020
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, posted on August 27, 2015
Dolores, posted on September 6, 2017
Don't Look Up, posted on January 13, 2022
First Reformed, posted on June 21, 2018
The Invisibles, posted on April 17, 2019
Marguerite, posted on April 7, 2016
Marriage Story, posted on December 11, 2019
Marshall, posted on October 19, 2017
The Mauritanian, posted on March 11, 2021
The Neighbors' Window, posted on February 12, 2020
On the Basis of Sex, posted on January 10, 2019
The Post, posted on January 18, 2018
The Salt of the Earth, posted on April 2, 2015
Saturday Night, posted on December 18, 2024
Seberg, posted on June 4, 2020
Selma, posted on January 15, 2015
Tick, Tick ... BOOM!, posted on November 25, 2021
Uncut Gems, posted on January 2, 2020
Woman in Gold, posted on April 15, 2015
(there’s a lot to like here but something worth noting just isn’t fully right)
Aladdin [2019], posted on May 29, 2019
All the Money in the World, posted on January 11, 2018
All the Old Knives, posted on April 21, 2022
Ant-Man, posted on September 3, 2015
Champions, posted on May 10, 2023
Chef, posted on May 29, 2014
Cherry, posted on March 25, 2021
Cloud Atlas, posted on November 3, 2012
Concussion, posted on January 7, 2016
Dalíland, posted on August 31, 2023
The Favourite, posted on December 12, 2018
First Cow, posted on July 23, 2020
House of Gucci, posted on February 10, 2022
Human Capital, posted on January 15, 2015
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, posted on November 26, 2013
Incredibles 2, posted on June 21, 2018
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, posted on July 19, 2023
Ingrid Goes West, posted on August 30, 2017
Inherent Vice, posted on January 22, 2015
Inside, posted on September 27, 2023
Mary Poppins Returns, posted on January 2, 2019
Mary Queen of Scots, posted on January 2, 2019
Master Gardener, posted on June 28, 2023
Mission: Impossible—Fallout, posted on August 2, 2018
Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, posted on August 6, 2015
Operation Finale, posted on September 6, 2018
Our Kind of Traitor, posted on July 7, 2016
Out of the Furnace, posted on December 17, 2013
Sing, posted on March 2, 2017
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, posted on January 2, 2020
The Stones & Brian Jones, posted on November 23, 2023
Stowaway, posted on April 29, 2021
Suburbicon, posted on November 1, 2017
Tel Aviv on Fire, posted on September 4, 2019
10 Cloverfield Lane, posted on March 16, 2016
The Tender Bar, posted on January 13, 2022
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael, posted on December 17, 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing, posted on October 6, 2022
About Time, posted on November 26,2013
Allied, posted on December 1, 2016
American Made, posted on October 4, 2017
An American Pickle, posted on August 13, 2020
Am I OK?, posted on August 20, 2024
24, 2014
Animal Behavior, posted on February 21, 2019
Anna Karenina, posted on December 14, 2012
Avant Que de Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything),
posted on February 6, 2014
Beautiful Creatures, posted on March 7, 2013
Ben-Hur [2016], posted on August 26, 2016
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, posted on June 4, 2012
Bohemian Rhapsody, posted on November 7, 2018
The Book Thief, posted on December 17, 2013
Born in China, posted on May 4, 2017
The Bourne Legacy, posted on August 15, 2012
Burial, posted on September 8, 2022
Captain Marvel, posted on March 14, 2019
Carrie [2013], posted on October 31, 2013
The Comedian, posed on February 2, 2017
Coming 2 America, posted on March 11, 2021
The Company You Keep, posted on May 11, 2013
Concrete Cowboy, posted on April 8, 2021
Creed III, posted on April 13, 2023
Deadpool 2, posted on May 31, 2018
Dependent's Day, posted on January 26, 2017
The Dig, posted on February 4, 2021
Disobedience, posted on June 14, 2018
Dough, posted on May 5, 2016
Downhill, posted on February 19, 2020
Downton Abbey, posted on September 25, 2019
Dual, posted on May 26, 2022
East Side Sushi, posted on October 3, 2015
Echo in the Canyon, posted on March 19, 2020
The Edge of Seventeen, posted on December 1, 2016
Elvis & Nixon, posted on April 21, 2016
Ender's Game, posted on November 7, 2013
Jupiter Ascending, posted on February 12, 2015
Late Night, posted on June 20, 2019
Learning to Drive, posted on September 17, 2015
Monkey Kingdom, posted on May 7, 2015
My Cousin Rachel, posted on June 22, 2017
Selah and the Spades, posted on April 23, 2020
Shadows, posted on June 30, 2022
This Is the End, posted on June 20, 2013
This Is Where I Leave You, posted on September 25, 2014
Thor: The Dark World, posted on November 14, 2013
True Story, posted on April 23, 2015
Tully, posted on May 10, 2018
22 Jump Street, posted on June 19, 2014
Two Days, One Night, posted on February 5, 2015
2 Guns, posted on August 8, 2013
Rock of Ages, posted on June 29, 2012
Warhorse, posted on January 10, 2012
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If we did talk, though, you’d easily see how my early-70s-age informs my references, Musical Metaphors, etc. in these reviews because I’m clearly a guy of the later 20th century, not so much the contemporary world. I’ve come to accept my ongoing situation, though, realizing we all (if fate allows) keep getting older, we just have to embrace it, as Joni Mitchell did so well in "The Circle Game," offering sage advice even when she was quite young herself.
By the way, if you’re ever at The Hotel California knock on my door—but you know what the check-out policy is so be prepared to stay for awhile (quite an eternal while, in fact, but maybe while there you’ll get a chance to meet Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, RIP). Ken
P.S. Just to show that I haven’t fully flushed Texas out of my system here’s an alternative destination for you, Home in a Texas Bar, with Gary P. Nunn and Jerry Jeff Walker (although, as you know, with bar songs there are plenty about people broken down by various tragic circumstances, with maybe the best of the bunch—calls itself “perfect”—being "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" written by Steve Goodman, sung by David Allen Coe). But wherever the rest of my body may be my heart’s always with my longtime-companion/lover/
wife, Nina Kindblad, so here’s our favorite shared song—Neil Young’s "Harvest Moon"—from the performance we saw at the Desert Trip concerts in Indio, CA on October 15, 2016 (as a full moon was rising over the venue) because “I’m still in love with you,” my dearest, a never-changing-reality even as the moon waxes/wanes over the months/years to come. But, just as we can be raunchy at times (in private of course) Neil and his backing band, Promise of the Real, on that same night also did a lengthy, fantastic version of "Cowgirl in the Sand" (19:06) which I’d also like to commit to this blog’s always-ending-tunes; I never get tired of listening to it, then and now (one of my idle dreams is to play guitar even half this well). But, while I’m at it, I’ll also include another of my top favorites, from the night before at Desert Trip, the Rolling Stones’ "Gimme Shelter" (Wow!), a song “just a shot away” in my memory (along with my memory of their great drummer, Charlie Watts, RIP). To finish this cluster of all-time-great-songs I’d like to have played at my wake (as far away from now as possible) here’s one Dylan didn’t play at Desert Trip but it’s great, much beloved by me and Nina: "Visions of Johanna." However, if the day does come when Nina has to recall these above thoughts (beginning with “If we did talk”) and this music after my demise I might as well make this into an arbitrary-Top 10 of songs that mattered to me by adding The Beatles’ "A Day in the Life,"
because that chaotic-orchestral-finale sounds like what the death experience may be like, and the Beach Boys’ "Fun Fun Fun," because these memories may have gotten morbid so I’d like to sign off with something more upbeat to remember me, the Galveston non-surfer-boy.
However, before I go (whether it’s just until next week or more permanently), let’s round these songs out to an even dozen with 2 more dedicated to Nina, the most wonderful woman ever for me. I’ll start with Dylan’s "Lay, Lady, Lay" (maybe a bit personal, but we had a strong connection right from the start) and finish with the most appropriate tune of all, The Beatles again, "In My Life," because whatever I might encounter in my Earth-time, “I love you more.”
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