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  • Movies at the Del

    Movies at the Del

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    I grew up in a small beach town that has one significant landmark: a 19th century resort hotel. When the Hotel Del Coronado opened in 1888 it was the largest resort hotel in the world. Presidents, kings, and Hollywood royalty have stayed there. Prince Edward allegedly met Wallis Simpson there. The hotel has a ghost:…

  • Alien

    Alien

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    Before Alien, science fiction space movies had a certain look — all shiny and pristine. Think of the corridors of the Starship Enterprise. The future is clean and bright, apparently. But would it really look like that? I doubt it. Alien was the first movie set on a spaceship that looked lived in. The Nostromo…

  • Alternate Cuts, Part 1

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    Note: this was originally going to be a one-off but I got so deep in the weeds on the three movies below that the post got too long. I’m going to save the rest for a later post. The home video age is the era in which multiple different cuts of movies became an increasingly…

  • Jaws

    Jaws

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    Jaws is a landmark film for several reasons. It was the first summer blockbuster and changed the way movies are released from that moment forward. It launched the career of Steven Spielberg who had only directed one feature film up to that point. Spielberg was not the studio’s first choice. He was only 26 when…

  • Newbie’s Guide to HK Cinema, Part II

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    As mentioned in my last post, I contributed content to a friend’s website in the early aughts. Ken specifically asked for a newcomer’s guide to Hong Kong cinema and split what I gave him into two parts. If you missed Part I, here it is. At some future date, I may revisit this topic. There…

  • Newbie’s Guide to HK Cinema, Part I

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    keeba
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    I looked up my friend Ken’s site (AngelicVoices.com) on the wayback machine and found some old stuff I posted there, circa 2002. My primary movie obsession back then was Hong Kong cinema so Ken asked me to write a guide for newbies with recommendations. Note that this is a snapshot from 2002. Back then it…

  • The Four Feathers (2002)

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    I love a good adventure.  There’s something about British soldiers in their spiffy red coats off fighting the barbarian hordes… or at least there used to be, before political correctness made these stories difficult to pull off.  The golden age of this kind of filmmaking was back in the 40s and 50s, when people still…

  • History

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    Back in the late 90s I built my first website. It was very primitive—just text and links and no CSS. I called it ‘The Vault of Keeba’. It was mostly a collection of capsule reviews of obscure movies, with occasional full page reviews of movies in theaters. I still have the files for that website.…

  • Groundhog Day

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    In my last post I mentioned Groundhog Day as a theme for a binge list. What I meant by that is a list of episodes from varying tv shows that feature the “Groundhog Day” trope: a character or characters in the show get stuck in a time loop, like Bill Murray in the 1993 movie…