Wes Anderson’s movie, Moonrise Kingdom features a number of books that one of the lead characters has in their possession. None of the titles actually that exist. A further book is introduced that is also made up, but has achieved a level of internet fame, with a modest cottage industry producing items that feature its …
“Dignity, always dignity”
James Garner’s Support Your Local Sheriff is as good a comedy western as you would ever find. It’s not a spoof or a send-up like Blazing Saddles. More a wry subversion. The story is passably western. As I’ve mentioned before, Garner’s Jason McCullough gets diverted on his travels to Australia and becomes the titular sheriff …
My copy of Angels With Dirty Faces arrived today. It was irresistibly priced on Amazon. James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, and Humphrey Bogart. If the name seems vaguely familiar it may be because the title was homaged by the movie Home Alone as it’s gangster movie within a movie called Angels With Filthy Souls (“Merry Christmas …
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