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copyright Sony Classics I found myself suddenly capable of emitting deadly lasers from my eyes on the way home from the Paris Theatre after having viewed The Illusionist. I believe the incident to be purely coincidental… …but I did certainly find Sylvain’s Chomet‘s new aimated film a fine, fine time… While his previous film, The […]

So I happened into the Shops at Columbus Circle the other day and just so happened upon a very welcome exhibition, Salvador Dali “The Vision of a Genius”, a scattering of surrealist sculptures and sketches that while not as dynamic as his paintings, still sufficiently stimulates the senses while shopping. Dali’s art, of course, orgasms […]

Image copyright BBC And so, I have now viewed the entirety of the new Masterpiece Anthology series Sherlock, the modern updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Having enjoyed all three stories several times, my strongest complaint is that there are only three of them and shall not be more […]

Upon the highway of my Netflix queue, hot new releases have come and gone, but the Burt Reynolds classic The Cannonball Run – the crown of a genre to which I am currently drawn – still sits there, mocking me with an expected availability of “A Very Long Wait“. It stands to reason that there […]