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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Posted on May 27, 2017 by tcwells14

Updated to remove spoiler warnings. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will make a lot of money but would have made more with a coherent story. The film’s  promise is lost amid various conflicting competing plot lines. It has all … Continue reading →

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Forget lovingly handmade gifts – Amazon wins

Posted on April 25, 2017 by tcwells14

This is not a nastygram towards Amazon.com or the USPS. Not at all. It’s is a realization. Only big business can afford to mail stuff, so buy from them. I just spent $20 to send a package across the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Utamaro-A glimpse into Japan’s sexual ‘floating world’ of yesteryear

Posted on April 8, 2017 by tcwells14

Thank goodness for sex, otherwise humanity would miss so out on so much great art. A one-of-a-kind exhibit, Inventing Utamaro, opens at the Arthur M. Sackler museum in Washington D.C. April 9th. Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro’s large painting, Moon at Shinagawa, owned by … Continue reading →

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Intense and Powerful – ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’

Posted on April 1, 2017 by tcwells14

The Zookeeper’s Wife isn’t an easy movie to enjoy, but it’s so worthwhile to see. SPOILERS Continue reading →

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Why all the kudos for ‘Logan?’

Posted on March 22, 2017 by tcwells14

The first time I saw Logan, I was appalled by the violence and turned off by the story. I decided to give it another chance, see it a second time to see if I had the same reaction. So several … Continue reading →

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April 1917 the U.S. enters WWI

Posted on March 3, 2017 by tcwells14

2017  is a commerative year. A century ago the U.S. entered “The War To End All Wars” on April 6, 1917. A hundred years later it’s a mostly forgotten war. While the United States World War One Centennial Commission was established … Continue reading →

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Like journalists, illustrators like Rockwell and Nast speak to the masses

Posted on October 27, 2016 by tcwells14

Great artists don’t reproduce history, they interpret it. Earlier this week I went out to Stockbridge, Massachusetts to the museum dedicated to illustrator, Norman Rockwell. I’ve said since my art school days that the major diff. between a fine artist and … Continue reading →

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The Rat Patrol (another classic of 1966)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by tcwells14

50 years ago, 1966, was a good year for television. We’ve already had numerous documentaries on Star Trek which led to movies, series, spin-offs. Mission Impossible (hello, Tom Cruise!) also premiered which has also had an afterlife, The Monkees made young fans (me) … Continue reading →

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Fans will love ‘Will’ and ‘Jane’ in DC Folger’s Austen/Shakespeare exhibit

Posted on August 10, 2016 by tcwells14

He has a bobble head, and she’s on a gin bottle but they’re just examples of the continuing popularity of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. The exhibit, “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, … Continue reading →

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Is the new “Ghostbusters” so special?

Posted on July 27, 2016 by tcwells14

So many of my friends are over-the-stars about the new all-woman Ghostbusters that I decided to see it a second time to see if my first reaction was wrong. They sing it’s importance in the fight for female equality. I just thought … Continue reading →

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