Back home and back to our Saturday pizza and bad movie. We gave the usual monster movies a break and watched the classic The Philadelphia Story, a movie neither of us could remember seeing before. Plot: C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) is packing the car with his worldly goods. Tracy—Mrs. C. K. Dexter HavenContinue reading “Review of “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)”
Author Archives: 9siduri
Mother’s Day: a Rant
Last night, I dreamed several of my closest friends died. I’m at the point in life where I attend memorials with increasing frequency and weddings hardly at all, but the dream was not about that. It was about a Mother’s Day visit with family. We are not close. There are no bad feelings that I’mContinue reading “Mother’s Day: a Rant”
Review of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” (2018)
We watched an oddball film for our Saturday pizza and bad movie night, a sad movie that dealt with dreams, fantasy v. reality, guilt, and a bit of insanity. Plot: The movie opens the line: And now… after more than 25 years of making… and unmaking. The viewer first sees a storybook of Don QuixoteContinue reading “Review of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” (2018)”
Review of “Argylle” (2024)
This was a break from our usual Saturday night pizza and bad movie. It was an amalgam of Romancing the Stone, The Kingsman, a little bit (perhaps unintentionally) of Get Smart, and a dash of The Sopranos. Plot: Dressed in a dark green Nehru jacket, suave Agent Aubrey Argylle (Henry Cavill) approaches several elegantly dressedContinue reading “Review of “Argylle” (2024)”
Review of “Three Amigos!” (1986)
Our latest Saturday night pizza and bad movie was one my dearly beloved had seen, but I hadn’t. It was a silly flick with a silly premise. Plot: I’ll preface this by saying that my Spanish is shaky on a good day, so those who speak it better than I do (and there are many),Continue reading “Review of “Three Amigos!” (1986)”
Stories Published
I had two pieces of flash fiction published recently. They are really, really short. The first is called “The Photographer’s Lament.” It appeared April 1 in an online magazine called Spank the Carp. The second is called “I Dare You.” It appeared April 4 in an online magazine called Bright Flash Literary Review. I’m jazzed.Continue reading “Stories Published”
Review of “The Shadow” (1994)
For our Saturday pizza and bad movie, we watched a relatively recent flick, one the dearly beloved liked back in the day but I’d never heard of. Plot: Between the two world wars, Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) makes a living as a drug lord in Tibet. Maybe he lost his way looking for Shangri-La? HeContinue reading “Review of “The Shadow” (1994)”
Review of “The Comedy of Terrors” (1963)
Our Saturday pizza and bad movie night featured a flick we’d seen before, a spoof on horror flicks. It plays with tropes familiar in both horror and comedy. Plot: Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) and his assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) run a funeral business in late 19th century New England, cutting corners by reusing theContinue reading “Review of “The Comedy of Terrors” (1963)”
Review of “Five Million Years to Earth” (1967)
This was a bit different for our Saturday night pizza and bad movie, a flick my dearly beloved and I had seen on TV some time ago. We both remembered it in black and white because of the sets our families had back in the day. I must have been a munchkin, but I rememberContinue reading “Review of “Five Million Years to Earth” (1967)”
Review of “The Invisible Man’s Revenge” (1944)
Our latest Saturday pizza and bad movie offering has a put-upon dog for a hero. That journalist guy wasn’t half-bad, but the dog got the job done, even after humans hadn’t been all that good to him. Plot:Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) returns to London by cutting himself out of a cargo bale dropped off onContinue reading “Review of “The Invisible Man’s Revenge” (1944)”
Reviews of Old and New Stories. Mostly Old 