Nine on the Ninth – 2012 Best, Worst and Everything Else… part 1…

Boy&Horse takes a not so quick look back at the films of 2012. In Part 1, he looks at films he wanted to see, but couldn’t; didn’t want to see, and didn’t; and saw, but wished he hadn’t. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Charles Durning

I was devestated to hear about the passing of Charles Durning, right after the death of Jack Klugman and after seeing The Muppet Movie again on Christmas Eve. The first film I can remember seeing Durning in was The Best Little Whore House in Texas, and then The Sting. He was a treasure, and was …

Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Jack Klugman

Almost anyone that remembers Jack Klugman does so from Quincy or the Odd Couple. For me, it will always be The Twilight Zone, and especially In Praise of Pip. There was no finer episode of television than that, and it was specifically the pathos and emotion of Klugman that made that work so well. I …