Other Recent Stuff...
 My First Viewing
Experience: Everyone remembers seeing "Raiders Of The Lost Ark"
for the first time, especially Kira Schiavone who just saw it - and the two
sequels - this weekend. - "I’m
told that Indiana Jones is a retro classic. Since I spend time on a
retro forum, my having not seen it was always met with a certain
amount of incredulity. Action movies really aren’t my cup of tea to
begin with, but when I discovered that they were showing the entire
trilogy on successive nights, I decided to watch at least the first
one to see what it was like. I found that it was hyped up as a lot
more than it is. It is a fairly standard action film, distinguished
from the rest by the setting, Indy’s strange ability to morph from
professor to action hero in a few seconds, and the supernatural
things he gets involved with, but overall relatively ordinary."
Read More...
 "Is This Not The Perfect Sunday?"
A new rant by Eric Renderking Fisk, published June 15th, 2008. "All
my life, for as long as I can remember, I've had this ideal. There's
this picture in my head of what a perfect weekend morning would be,
an uncluttered, uncomplicated time alone with my family. This
weekend I think we really achieved that goal, where the reality of
the "here and now" matched with the romanticized version in my head.
The question is this: how did this happen? How did we obtain this
domestic nirvana? It's because something was missing... it's absence
was wonderful and joyous.
Let me explain..."
 The
Uninvited is the perfect example of what Independent films get
right and what Hollywood gets wrong. The script - written by Fred
Robey and Jonathan Pokays - focus is on both the character's
development and on the action. Once you see The Uninvited you'll be
kicking yourself for all the times you've ever wanted to make a
fan-film.
 Flicks
To Hold You Over:
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. "Well, here
it is... the movie many of us have waited a long time for... the
third and maybe last sequel of "Raiders Of The Lost Ark." The actual
movie that the title of this column here and on The Indy Experience
has referred to: "The Flicks To Hold You Over..." all the others
reviews were for movies to "hold you over" until this was finally
made and released. It's a surreal feeling, I'm actually writing the
review to this film that makes me feel as if this part of our
journey together is at an end."
Read The Rest Of The Review...
 "Come
See The Paradise" - It's hard to look at this film and still feel like
an enthusiastic cheerleader for The Golden Era, hoping to revive the
style and the substance of those decades and hope that Big Band
Swing and fedora's come back into the main stream. At the same time,
this motion picture is both stark and beautiful in the way it
demonstrates that in the dark times good people can over come
hardships and obstacles.
Flicks
from The Archive:
Across The Pacific: "At least two of Bogart's movie fit in this
Category of an American man fighting against a clandestine
organization. "All through the Night" and the subject of this
review: "Across the Pacific" is both two excellent movies he made
under his contract with Warner Brothers during that era. "Across the
Pacific" isn't as tongue and cheek as "All Through The Night", but
reflects much of the adventure that may have inspired another
franchise many of us are interested in."
"Romancing The Stone" "Out of all the movies made to cash
in on the Indiana Jones phenomenon after "Raiders of the Lost Ark,"
there’s really only one that wasn’t awful and quite memorable.
...It’s kind of funny, seeing how “Romancing The Stone” was homage
to Raiders of the Lost Ark, while Raiders was homage to Republic
serials and other films such as David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia”
and John Huston’s “Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
"The Omen"
- Mr. Donner was able to craft a vary human tale
from this dark subject matter, and almost 30 years later “The Omen”
is still one of the most intense motion pictures of its Genre.
"The
Wrath Of Khan" - Both
Wrath of Khan and Raiders of the Lost Ark
represent a better time for Paramount, a brief hey-day that would later
prove to be one of the most successful periods of the Studio’s history.
"The Pianist"
- There are strong and powerful scenes and exchanges between Szpilman and the German officer that Illustrate
the good a man can do when powered by guilt and shame and perhaps in
a search for redemption..."
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Experience. "If you have the chance
go to "Walking With Dinosaurs: The Experience," then absolutely go and
be prepared - the pictures I took and posted here just don't do this
event justice. Review by Eric "Renderking" Fisk.
Pizza Haven: Here I'm going to lay out my argument why you should
almost always frequent your friendly neighborhood pizza joint. Not only
because you should support non-corporately owned business and support
your neighbors who own local restaurants, but because they're simply
better most of the time." Review by Eric "Renderking" Fisk.
"Panama Tom" Willey brings us back to Peru and shares with us a story
of forgiveness, healing and over-coming a question of faith...
"The Long Road Home"
April 22nd, 2008: Eric Renderking Fisk has been working on this
rant about how we need to do more to help each other out in The Retroverse
and what we need to do to prevent the tragedy that occurs to many different
people when one person takes their own life.
"Celebrities Of Suicide."
Doug Palumbo visit to
Camptown
Hats.
 Brian
Elistar Scott explains the importance of the
Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope
Remembering Charlton Heston by Gregg Argonaut.
World Peace - The Ideal Utopia or The Great Satan? - Nathan Lambhead
discusses the biblical realities of world peace and it's improbabilities.
New Rant By Eric 'Renderking' Fisk:
"What's a Parent's 'Worst Nightmare'?" One of the things they don't
tell you before you become a parent is that you'll be plagued with strange
dreams about your children for a very long time... much the same way
they don't tell you before you graduate from high school that you'll
still have nightmares about showing up for class unprepared. - Since
becoming a parent, I've had the occasional dream or nightmare about
some danger that threatens my boys..."
 Austin
Phillips (Zoo Station):
Did the Writers’ Strike Really Affect Us? What was really gained
anything during the Writers Strike that just ended? Who are the winners,
and who are the losers?
Jose Brown AKA Whorf23:
"A Word on Lynching and Black Attitudes in The American South."
The Fedora Chronicles Motor Club:
James' DeLorean:
"To me the DeLorean in a very unique vehicle, what other car
is made of stainless steel and was originally going to have a warranty
on it for 25 years? John DeLorean had a wonderful vision, it’s just
sad that it ended so soon."
"Saturday Night Retro: Portsmouth, New Hampshire" A few local members
of Retro-Based websites head out for a night of drinking beer and good
conversation. Find your smiles, and bring your cocktail umbrellas.
Diary Of A Mafia Moll - Doug Palumbo presents the diary of a real-life
wife of a Mafia henchman.
Vintage Threads: "Lids, Hats, Caps, whatever you want to call 'em..."
Daryl “Kentucky Blues” Manley
explains to us the difference between a hat and a cap, and what makes
a good fedora...
"Why Are Victims Our Only War Heroes?"
By Captain Roger Lee Crossland, U.S. Naval
Reserve. "For some today, the only image they know is of U.S.
servicemen and women as victims. That is not right. It cannot continue.
Worse still, we risk having our children’s perception become that signing
up to serve is signing up to become a victim..."
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August
26th, 2008 -
June
22nd, 2008
Living
Hollywood - By Austin Phillips:
