About Piddleville
I can’t claim to be a film critic, historian or even much of a reviewer. I just like movies. What I do on Piddleville with my “reviews” is try to determine why I like or dislike the various movies that I see...
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Brave Cowboys, Beautiful Princesses, Noble Horses
I discovered I had a broken link and my review of 2004’s Hidalgo wasn’t available so yesterday I fixed it and in the process reread it and rediscovered Roger Ebert’s review of it, which I think nails it (far better than I did). In fact, his conclusion is a very succinct…
Say goodbye to Roger Ebert gone
For me, Mr. Ebert was a writer who happened to also be a great film critic. And he did what the best writers do: produce. A lot! I also loved how he was engaged with technology for all the right reasons: to create, to communicate, to connect. I’m not certain,…
Yes it was bad and the problem is the Academy
A remarkable human accomplishment was recently achieved. In a field of very tough competition, last night’s Oscar ceremony (to inappropriately use a word) was the easy winner of most tedious, worst conceived and executed, and just plain bad shows. My roommate went to bed halfway through the opening monologue (another…