#FF — The Wrong Shoes

PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot It was so simple to don scrubs, ID, and mask. No one glanced her way on the graveyard shift as she wheeled the newborn pod from the nursery, into the elevator, and abandoned it; then carried her precious cargo out of the hospital’s delivery dock doors. Baby June, being the…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #32 April 7, 2020

Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! I watched some really good ones this week! How come your family, no matter how long you’ve been away, still knows how to push your buttons? Because they installed them. – Jack Taylor Jack Taylor (2010) Irish series S1 (3 90-min episodes) WAS on netflix Starring: Iain…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #31 March 30, 2020

Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! This past week has been focused more on Netflix series and one Netflix/DVD.com disc. Since the supply of DVDs borrowed from the library has shriveled up it has filled in. Next week may see me watching some of my old DVDs and writing reviews on them. We’ll…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #22 January 28, 2020

  The Bad Sleep Well (1960) (60 years old now!) Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Kô Nishimura, Takeshi Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi Director: Akira Kurosawa Synopsis: Even though 60 years old now, the plot is just as fresh today as it was then. It’s a story…

Movies, Movies, Movies! #14 – December 3, 2019

A Touch of Sin (2013) Starring: Wu Jiang, Lanshan Luo, Baoqiang Wang, Jia-yi Zhang, Tao Zhao, Li Meng Director: Zhang Ke Jia Synopsis: Four powerful, unflinching vignettes that each, in their own way, showing a human being pushed past their point of endurance. Exploitation and corruption are a continuing thread that run through each. Excellent…

Let there be light

It was a blessed day as the sun has been shining since this morning and still is.  After having a fun lunch with one of my friends, we hit a game store a couple of doors down.  After getting the download from the clerk that I then texted my sons about, I got this game,…

The Memory of Roma: A Netflix Original Film — 25YL

Netflix is a winner in my book when they premiered this for subscribers.  In the past it would have meant a trip to the theater to see it on the front end.  I saw “Roma” a couple of weeks ago.  It is a work of art in so many ways and deserves every award out…