The Single Dumbest Thing Yet Written In Tribute to Alan Rickman

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

Look. I am second to no one on my love for the  screen work of the late Alan Rickman. I saw Die Hard in preview, before anybody knew it would become a classic of its kind and a model for many inferior films, including its own sequels, that came after it. I knew he was a star the second […]

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Enough With the Fershlugginer Chocolate Cake, Already

Posted on October 22nd, 2015 by Adam-Troy Castro

Look, I’m going to explain this in terms you might be able to understand. I like chocolate cake just fine. I think chocolate cake is one of the things that makes life worth living. As a fat guy, I not only return to chocolate cake more often than is healthy for me, but can actually […]

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Twenty-Two Musketeers [Part Two]: Wherefore art Thou, ‘Definitive’?

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

All for one and one for all. First Commentary (continued) by Adam-Troy Castro The Three Musketeers (1935). Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Written by Rowland V. Lee and Dudley Nichols, from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Starring Walter Abel, Ian Keith, others. 97 minutes ** The Three Musketeers aka The Singing Musketeer (1939). Directed by […]

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