Let’s hear it for stop-motion animation. Knowing that each moment captured on film is a decision mulled over and made 30 times per second lets you know you have entered the vision of an artist.
Tag Archives: Michael Cecconi
Shaken & Stirred: MAMMA MIA and the Te-A – Please, No More
Mamma Mia.
Haters be hating.
I hope there isn’t a statute of limitations on movie critique.
I hope that there isn’t a special place in hell for those who lambast an entire cast filled with revered actors.
I hope I never need to make a Long Island Iced Tea again.
I hope no one ever orders a Long Island Iced Tea again.
I hope.
Shaken & Stirred: A Drink With David Cronenberg in the Lion’s Den
Director David Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller pose with a mugwump. Naked Lunch, 1991
by Michael Cecconi
How many drops make an ocean?
How many pixels until the picture becomes clear?
How many licks to the middle of a Tootsie Roll Pop? Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: Colonial Cosmo— and THEY LIVE
Happy Halloween 2015! Now just put these glasses on. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: Colorado Bulldog – and IT FOLLOWS
Sinatra Special: Eat, Drink, Singing, Acting
This week enjoy some pasta and have a Jack Daniels with Francis Albert Sinatra, and watch his Academy-Award-winning short film The House I Live In in celebration of his 100th birthday and this weekend’s Ring-a-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra at San Francisco’s Vogue Theater.
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Frank Sinatra. The Chairman. Frank & Ava & Mia & Barbara. Jack Daniel’s. Old No. 7. Jack & Ginger & Coke & Rocks & Lemonade.
Who made the 20th century? On the booze front you have the shadow of Prohibition looming, the rise of vodka, the rise and fall and rise again of proper cocktails, and through it all you have Jack Daniel’s. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: Bib EX MACHINA
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) and Nathan (Oscar Isaac) in Ex Machina. Credit: Universal Studios.
How badly do you want a drink? If it is just to get drunk then grab a fifth of vodka on your way home and knock yourself out. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: CINDERELLA—50 Shades of Blue
I love to fly. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: A Drink Called Smoke & Flowers & a Movie Called FURY ROAD
Shaken & Stirred: Strawberry Margarita, the Red and the Black, Spring’s Arrow—and PREDESTINATION
Here there be spoilers.
If we start talking about time travel—jotting little notes on cocktail napkins and trying to visualize what must be a clusterfuck of a temporal highway interchange—then we’ll never get anything done. Continue reading
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