"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words... Continue Reading →
Book Review – The Great Movies
The Great Movies by Roger Ebert - The first of a series of books by my all time favorite movie critic. Before he died he added two more to the series. Ebert offers relatively brief (couple pages each) commentaries on movies that he thinks belong in the top tier of films. He admits right off... Continue Reading →
Movie Review – Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby - (1938) - A quiet archaeologist (Cary Grant) runs into a flighty heiress (Katherine Hepburn) who upsets his life in general and brings a leopard named "Baby" into his life. Along the way he discovers that the young woman is also the niece of a woman that is considering donating a million... Continue Reading →
The End of Film, Big Data and Super Media
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words... Continue Reading →
Best of the Web – Videos For Your Soul
Videos For Your Soul.com - This is actually a project by a friend of mine (Randall Curtis - The Holy Geek. I'm pretty sure you're going to run into him again later in this series). It began as a spiritual practice during Lent. He gathered together some of the best and most inspiring videos on... Continue Reading →
Movie Review – Children of Men
Children of Men (2006) - In a dystopian future (only a little more than a decade from now) humanity is faced with total collapse after every woman becomes infertile. The sudden appearance of a pregnant woman pits different political factions against one another while one man tries to get her to sanctuary. I'm always amazed... Continue Reading →
RIP Pete Seeger, The Sherman Thing, Award Failure
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words... Continue Reading →
Movie Review – The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch - (1969) - The days of the "Old West" are coming to an end as World War I approaches. A gang of aging outlaws goes for one final score as they are pursued by bounty hunters sent by the railroad company. This is another movie around which legend gathers. John Wayne claimed... Continue Reading →
Tracking the Top 100
This is the American Film Institute’s 2007 list of the top 100 American movies; I’ve put the ones I’ve seen in bold. I've included only those movies that I've seen the whole way through. I had checked it a couple years ago and had scored about 60% of them. Just updated it and now I'm... Continue Reading →
From My Shelves – The Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers - It was sometime in either very late high school or early college that I got into the Marx Brothers. You'll find no less than 12 titles on my shelves (listed at the end). If memory serves a friend in high school (who bore a more than passing resemblance to Groucho when... Continue Reading →