Friday, 31 July 2020

Is this the last summer?

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I only ask because everything associated with summer is gone. I remember a summer four years ago in Vancouver, by a pool, with friends; we w...
Thursday, 30 July 2020

To call it the end of reason

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 is too dramatic; let’s just call it — ‘Sky doesn’t want to write essays anymore.’ This means I am announcing my abhorrence for a certain st...
Sunday, 19 July 2020

PLAGUE DIARY 122: SKY WRITES REVIEWS OF OLD BAD HOLLYWOOD MOVIES TO KEEP HIM SANE DURING THIS TIME OF HORRIFIC INSANITY

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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
 The first of the Philip Marlowe movies — with the oddly cast Dick Powell (usually a musical comedy star) as the le...
Saturday, 18 July 2020

PLAGUE DIARY 121: SKY WRITES REVIEWS OF OLD BAD HOLLYWOOD MOVIES TO KEEP HIM SANE DURING THIS TIME OF HORRIFIC INSANITY

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Mark of the Vampire (1935)  It’s a very strange thing. It’s necessary to give it all away, or else what else would there to be to talk abo...
Friday, 17 July 2020

PLAGUE DIARY 120: SKY WRITES REVIEWS OF OLD BAD HOLLYWOOD MOVIES TO KEEP HIM SANE DURING THIS TIME OF HORRIFIC INSANITY

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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) It took an Andy Hardy movie. I don’t know if I’ve ever really watched one from beginning to end. I spok...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

PLAGUE DIARY 119: SKY WRITES REVIEWS OF OLD BAD HOLLYWOOD MOVIES TO KEEP HIM SANE DURING THIS TIME OF HORRIFIC INSANITY

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Marty (1955) I remember this movie as the touching tale of a lonely, ordinary guy — the brutally realistic story of a man who is — well Mar...
Wednesday, 15 July 2020

PLAGUE DIARY 118: SKY WRITES REVIEWS OF OLD BAD HOLLYWOOD MOVIES TO KEEP HIM SANE DURING THIS TIME OF HORRIFIC INSANITY

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Point Blank (1967)  I wasn’t prepared for this one. It’s an art film masquerading as film noir (shot in Technicolor). I was distracted by o...