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- "The Godfather" on AMC. I'm booked for the next 4 hours. "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me."6:40 AM Nov 8th from web
- First thing I watched on my new (and needless) flat screen: "Snow White." Second: the World Series. I may be Grumpy, but I swing both ways.7:59 PM Nov 4th from web
- Cool detail in "The Shinng" (on TCM): Each of Jack's "All work and no play..." pages are individually typed and formatted. That took work!1:55 AM Nov 1st from web
- I loved "The Men Who Stare at Goats," the psychic-warfare comedy by my USC frat brother Grant Heslov. Clooney as usual, is outta sight.2:40 PM Oct 29th from web
- The sublime "An Education" is set in Twickenham, the London 'burb where my own education was set to happen- 'til I was beset by money woes.10:18 AM Oct 27th from web
- To housebreak our feral cat, Ringo, I play her my DVD of "Morgan," the madcap '66 Britcom about the king of the urban jungle. She submits.11:16 PM Oct 25th from web
- Staring hungrily into a box of St. Louis filmfest disks. Docs about Wavy Gravy, Pavlov's Dog, web surveillance, film critics and (!) Branson12:01 PM Oct 25th from web
- Heartbreak at the pet store on Adoption Day. Nobody wants an old dog if you can't teach it new tricks. Sorry, Daisy.6:56 PM Oct 24th from web
- Think anything is sweeter than imbibing "Strange Brew," the Bob & Doug McKenzie movie with evil brewer Max Von Sydow? Take off, ya hoser.10:24 PM Oct 23rd from web
- I don't follow a lot of "celebrity" tweets, but this one from Penn Jillette tied me in a knot I can't untangle.1:45 AM Oct 22nd from web
- John C. Reilly is a gem as a tap-dancing vampire in the otherwise-unpolished "Cirque du Freak."11:25 PM Oct 20th from web
- All the hype was about "Where the Wild Things Are," which aspires to art, but this Boomer preferred "Astro Boy," which delivers zippy fun.11:34 PM Oct 17th from web
- Just saw two films about pioneering women in love triangles: "Coco Before Chanel" and "Amelia." What's next, "The Eleanor Roosevelt Story"?4:57 PM Oct 15th from web
- I'll say this about "Where the Wild Things Are": If you loved the book, you'll like the movie. (FYI: I bought it from Scholastic in '64.)2:52 AM Oct 13th from web
- Finale of "The Great Escape" on Ch. 9: Steve McQueen fails to jump the border fence, then pats his downed bike like it's a valiant horse.11:46 PM Oct 10th from web
- IFC is running a marathon of "Prisoner" episodes starting at 7 pm Central. Beware the blob, number 6.12:21 PM Oct 9th from web
- I love Natalie Wood and became chummy with Elliott Gould, yet I've never seen "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" (now on TCM). Sleep? Later.12:43 AM Oct 8th from web
- Watching Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn at Cannes in jet-set comedy "There's a Girl in My Soiup" (on TCM), I smile to think I've been there.12:18 AM Oct 8th from web
- Wilco was AOK at Farm Aid today, Lithe, loose and localized ("Casino Queen," "Heavy-Metal Drummer.") Worth the $9 beers, lack of farm info?1:05 AM Oct 5th from web
- Incredible doc, "The Monks: Transatlantic Feedback," about U.S. soldiers playing anti-war noise in Germany in 1966, on Sundance. Who knew?2:52 AM Oct 3rd from web
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- Name Joe Williams
- Location St. Louis, Mo., USA
- Web http://www.stltod...
- Bio Film critic, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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