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New season of Midsomer Murders now live

New season of Midsomer Murders now live

Hi everyone,

Midsomer Murders is a long running English murder mystery series. The series is set in fictional Midsomer county, a picturesque, quintessentially rural English place. The one issue with the place seems to be a murder rate approximately similar to Fallujah, Iraq (kidding but barely). Every episode features at least one body as the guest of honor and most have 3 or more, all murdered…

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The new Magnificent 7 film

The new Magnificent 7 film

I just saw the new Magnificent 7 film. Overall it wasn’t too bad, typical summer blockbuster fare. Like most remakes/reboots, whatever the studios want to call them nowadays, it’s bigger and louder than the original. The cast is likeable and once the 7 are assembled, the film picks up pace a bit, albeit somewhat unevenly. The story’s villain changes from a bandit criminal gang in the 1960…

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100 posts

WordPress just informed me that I’ve hit 100 posts. When I started this blog, it was purely as a hobby and a way to share my love of cinema with the world. I wasn’t even sure it would last 15 posts, let alone 100.

Here’s to another 100 and hopefully more after that.

Robert Odierna 2016

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Terry Jones

Sad to hear that comedian Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia.

Jones is most famous for his work as part of the Monty Python comedy group. Along with Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam were the core members of the group. Jones was heavily involved in the writing of the show and was a major element in it’s success.

The blow is harder with the recent death of Gene…

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Longmire season 5

Longmire season 5 just went live on Netflix.

If you’re already a fan, the season so far is the same quality as previous seasons.

If you haven’t seen the series, Longmire is a hybrid show. A modern police drama set in rural Wyoming, it also incorporates elements from classic westerns. The main character is a walking anachronism, an old west style sheriff trying to navigate a modern world of…

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Links

Hi everyone,

Here is a link to a website devoted to an often forgotten aspect of the very visual film medium: Sound. Virtually everything you hear in a modern film from dialog to background speech (walla) to foley (mostly footsteps) is either artificially added or post processed in a hundred specialized ways. It’s a testament to the skill of these artists that films sound as good as they do.

It…

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Link: Marvel movie soundtracks

Link: Marvel movie soundtracks

Found this interesting little article on collider yesterday. It asks the question, can you remember any part of a recent Marvel superhero film score? I thought about it and they’re right, I can’t. I certainly remember the soundtracks of the recent Batman films. Honestly most of what I remember from the last one I saw, one of the Avengers I think, was a lot of painfully loud SFX blasting through…

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Sinners in Paradise

Opening Statement

A group of castaways marooned on a remote island!

Review

The film opens with a group of people booking passage to China. We quickly see the major characters and their personalities. The nurse fleeing a bad marriage, a pair of munitions salesmen form rival firms, a pompous senator, a spoiled heiress and a pair of underworld characters.

The seaplane they are traveling in soon…

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