Movies, Mom & Me

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  Commentary:  Under construction.
    Yes, yes, yes! I love this movie! I have for well over a decade. Surprise, surprise, so did Mom! I think she liked it because it was so kinetic and colorful. As well, as I recall, except without direct quotes (it's been a long time since she and I saw it), she loved the individuality of the characters, their daring, and their moxy; that's a word she would have used, although I don't remember her using it, specifically, after watching this film. I also remember that whenever we watched it, during the final credits roll, she would sit back with a wide, satisfied grin and say, "I like that one! We should get it." We never did, but, at that time, during her last 11 years, it was somewhere on TV whenever either of us thought of it. Not so, of course, now. But, I was reminded of it last night when I suddenly thought of Nicolas Cage movies. So, it's on its way to me, right now.
    I often think of Mom hovering around me, watching particular movies with me when I play them. If I'm right that she does that, she'll definitely be here this week when this movie arrives and I slap it in the player.
    More later, likely.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Nicolas Cage	Cameron Poe	John Cusack	U.S. Marshal Vincent Larkin	John Malkovich	Cyrus Grissom	Steve Buscemi	Garland Greene
  Ving Rhames	Nathaniel Jones	Colm Meaney	Agt Duncan Malloy	Mykelti Williamson	Michael Cameron	Rachel Ticotin	Guard Sally Bishop
  Actor NameMonica Potter	Role NamePatricia Poe	Dave Chappelle	Joseph Parker	M. C. Gainey	Earl Williams	John Roselius	Dep. Marshal Skip Devers
  Renoly Santiago	Ramon Martinez	Danny Trejo	John Baca	Jesse Borrego	Francisco Cindino	Nick Chinlund	William Bedford

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1997
    Directed by Simon West.

Labels: action4, jesse-borrego, nicolas-cage, steve-buscemi, thriller4

# posted by gail @ 22:41    0 comments    email......this post

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  Commentary:  I worried, when I first bought this series (for, I must say, much, much, much less than it retails for now) that my memory of it might be disappointed. Didn't happen. It's my kind of war video, more character driven than action driven, surprising, moody, realistic (for the most part; sometimes, especially in the first season, it panders a little too much to the audience). I'm not at all sorry it's now a part of my permanent collection of video material. I read, somewhere, a long time ago, that it was the first war series/movie that was done from the women's point of view. Maybe that's why I like it, but I don't think of it that way.
    My copy of this series is not the boxed set spoken of in the link connected to the title. When I bought the series, the seasons were still being distributed as separate entities. Thus, my "set" includes only 18 of the 21 discs this review touts. It includes all the series episodes, just not quite as much special feature material, which is fine with me. When my mother was alive, it was a bit irksome that there were no subtitles. However, I have no problem with that. Perhaps I will when I get older??? Perhaps, as well, I will want to replace my discs with the set. We'll see.
  Update 6/2/2022:  This post was originally published on 8/14/16 but disappeared from public view. I am now reinstating it.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Dana Delany	1st Lt./Cpt. Colleen McMurphy	Nan Woods	Cherry White	Michael Boatman	SP4 Samuel Beckett	Marg Helgenberger	Karen Charlene "K.C." Koloski
  Robert Picardo	Cpt. Dick Richard	Tim Ryan	Cpt. Bartholomew Austen	Concetta Tomei	Mjr. Lila Garreau	Brian Wimmer	Cpl. Boonwell Lanier
  Jeff Kober	Stf. Sgt. Evan Winslow	Chloe Webb	Laurette Barber	Megan Gallagher	Airman Wayloo Marie Holmes	Troy Evans	Mst. Sgt. Bob Pepper

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the series.
    Release Date: 1988-1991
    Directed by several people, a few more women than usual, and some women who were regulars.

Labels: drama5, female-director1, historical2, jesse-borrego, military, period2, political2, TV1, violence2, war1

# posted by gail @ 12:58    0 comments    email......this post

• Who's watched:  M & G, ad infinitum
• Mentions:  *1* *2* *3* *4* *5* *6* *7*
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  Commentary:  For the most complete coverage of this series in our lives, best for you to click into the first Mention, above. Otherwise, suffice it to say that, as of this date, I still haven't been able to watch any of the episodes of this series (as I haven't since my mother's death), but refuse to pass these DVDs on to someone else.
    * As usual, while there are many directors throughout the seasons, female directors are merely scattered throughout. In fact, the first season had no female directors. I guess that figures, since it's a series underhandedly about the Abrahamic God.
    P. S.: I recall that there are at at least a couple of Christmas stories in this set ... I just don't know which episodes they are.
  Update 2/10/18:  True, not your classic super-hero series but, don't you agree, the angels act miraculously and certainly have what humans would consider super-powers. And, they help people and, in a few episodes, do battle with Satan, their nemesis. What could be more super-heroic than that?!?
  Update 5/24/22:  Yet another post published on 4/09/09 that "disappeared" and I had to recapture.
  Update 11/24/22:  In case you're curious, the Touched by an Angel episode in which Kirk Douglas acted was season 6-episode 18, "Bar Mitzvah".
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Roma Downey	Monica	Della Reese	Tess	John Dye	Andrew	Valerie Bertinelli	Gloria
  Alexis Cruz	Rafael	Charles Rocket	Adam	Paul Winfield	Sam	Cloris Leachman	Ruth

  
    Ossie Davis appeared as Erasmus Jones in "Touched by an Angel" Season 3/Episodes 11 "Promised Land" & 12 "The Homecoming"; "Touched by an Angel" Season 4 Episode 1 "The Road Home Part 1"; Season 5 Episode 2 "Saving Grace Part 1"
    Ossie Davis appeared as Gabe in "Touched by an Angel" Season 6 Episode 10 "The Christmas Gift"
    Ossie Davis appeared as Gabriel in "Touched by an Angel" Season 9 Episode 9 "Remembering Me Part 2"
    Piper Laurie appeared in Touched by an Angel, Season 4/Episode 12, "Venice"
    John de Lancie appeared in Touched by an Angel, Season 4/Episode 5, "Jones vs. God"
    Nancy Allen appeared in Touched by an Angel, Season 1/Episode 7, "An Unexpected Snow"
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1994-2003
    Directed by: See * note above.

Labels: Christmas, edward-james-olmos, enrique-castillo, fantasy2, female-director3, jesse-borrego, john-de-lancie, kirk-douglas, mom-favorite1, nancy-allen, ossie-davis, piper-laurie, spiritual1, william-devane

# posted by gail @ 11:30    0 comments    email......this post

• Who's watched: M & G
• Mentions: None
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  Commentary: My devotion to this movie is one of my dirty little movie secrets. I am so devoted to it that I prefer to refer to it by its original name, above, rather than it's retooled title "Bound by Honor". That's how it was billed when I originally saw it in the theater. My devotion to it is why my mother has seen it. Aside from owning the dvd, whenever it appears on network or cable, abridged or unabridged, if we're watching TV we're watching this movie. My mother tolerates it, watches it from the corner of her eye, occasionally comments on The Day of the Dead scenes (which she loves) and patiently waits for it to be over.
  Update 11/17/2021:  This post was originally published February 6, 2005. It was one of the accidental deletions that occurred, which is covered in this post.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Damian Chapa	Miko Velka	Jesse Borrego	Cruz Candelaria	Benjamin Bratt	Paco Aguilar	Enrique Castillo	Montana Seguera
  Delroy Lindo	Bonafide	Victor Rivers	Magic	Tom Towles	Red Ryder	Carlos Carrasco	Popeye
  Lanny Flaherty	Big Al	Billy Bob Thornton	Lightning	Danny Trejo	Geronimo	Theodore Wilson	Wallace

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1993
    Directed by Taylor Hackford.

Labels: delroy-lindo, dramaD, enrique-castillo, gang-movie, jesse-borrego, me-favorite4, revenge2, taylor-hackford, violence3

# posted by gail @ 18:35    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Colin Farrell	Cpt. John Smith	Q'orianka Kilcher	Pocahontas	Christopher Plummer	Cpt. Christopher Newport	Christian Bale	John Rolfe
  August Schellenberg	Chief Powhatan	Wes Studi	Opechancanough	David Thewlis	Edward Wingfield	Yorick van Wageningen	Samuel Argall
  Irene Bedard	Pocahontas' Mother	John Savage	Thomas Savage	Ben Chaplin	Robinson	Jonathan Pryce	King James VI & I
  Ben Mendelsohn	Ben	Raoul Trujillo	Tomocomo	Brían F. O'Byrne	Lewes	Alexandra W. B. Malick	Queen Anne
  Myrton Running Wolf	Tockwhogh	Will Wallace	William Sentry	Rulan Tangen	Two Moons	Jesse Borrego	Pepaschicher

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 2005
    Directed by Terrence Malick.

Labels: §3, ben-mendelsohn, christian-bale, christopher-plummer, Criterion3, jesse-borrego, jonathan-pryce, period6, wes-studi

# posted by gail @ 14:38    0 comments    email......this post