JACK REACHER

A surprisingly good cop movie...Much different than expected...Less explosions than usual...Law & Order did the plot but still holds you...Tom lookin' good...

DJANGO UNCHAINED

Django unedited...4hrs. too long...Too over the top...Do one or the other? Slavery ,irony, Tom foolery, gore...Sergio Leone is safe...

ARGO

Argo spelled backwards is boring...I know it's real...but felt like a poor knock off of Wag The Dog...

I LONG FOR THE ISLAND

East of -- The Rockaways -- Where I spent my -- Early and middle -- Days -- This amazing thing -- Called Sandy -- Came ashore -- And took -- My town -- Away -- All those summers -- Turned to gray -- And sewage now -- The canals -- And the bays -- My own -- Springsteen -- As I await -- The return to -- Glory Days...

SLICK

Bro -- Louis Farakan -- No Afro...

LEGIONS

The Roman General -- Status Quo -- Pin the Conquered -- On his cloak...

NOTOWN

City of skulls -- Detroit -- Looks out at -- All of us  -- Empty sockets  -- From a pile of -- Rust...

HITCHCOCK

O.K. but thin...More Psycho and less family Hitch...More Anthony Perkins...Bird droppings on him at the end instead...

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

Boring me heavily...Almost amateurish...Cliche attempting and refusing to stop...Too much empty-disconnected yakking...Awful, unattached soundtrack...A glimpse of Sam Shepard? Why...Why all of it...

MOVIES 2012

So far...Best of...Farewell My Queen...Beasts Of The Southern Wild...The Watch...Lincoln...The Master... In that order...

CHRISTMAS POEMS

JINGLE BELLE/An Emily Dickinson -- Christmas -- Silent -- Snow White -- Only -- The Bells of -- Amherst...   JINGLE ANKLE BELLS/There's a Christmas tale -- That I will share -- Santa's pipe -- Carved by a -- Cheyenne -- Smoke signals -- Peace on earth -- The only one -- We have...

JOHN KERRY

nnI'd vote no for him as Secretary of Defense...I'm a Purple Heart Viet Vet...I always thought Kerry's Nam was amazing and sorry I missed Viet Vets Against...I'm no Swift Boater and most likely have little in common politically but...Until their coming out against Kerry for President I had no idea that he did three Purple Hearts, one Bronze and one Silver Star in a span of only four months in country...That's impossible...Reading Kerry's battle accounts I did more on one patrol out of 13 months worth the Kerry ever encountered...I knew guys who were awarded the Silver Star...You'd cry tears of blood if I told you...Kerry deserves our scorn

MORE PETRAEUS

Does he get a ribbon for waking up in the morning? Check out US Grant...Nothing but bad-ass...And he added 30,000 more American fodder to Afghanistan...

LINCOLN

Excellent but for the over-fed,contrived beginning...If you're going to make up a scene about the Gettysburg Address why not have Lincoln deliver it? DD Lewis was Shakespeare meets Will Rogers...

PETRAEUS

Can you blame the General...Have you seen Ms Broadwell...

JUNGLE BOOK

Florida's Panther -- Has heard your -- Concern -- Determined to -- Remain -- After all -- The River of Grass -- Is called the -- Foreverglades...

DOUBLES

You remind me of -- Sara Errani - A pro tennis -- Of Italy -- Lovely in action -- With a strength  -- And a sexiness  -- In her body...

THE YOU'RE IT GIRL

You look like -- A Greenwich Village -- Version of -- Zooey Deschanel -- A compliment -- I hopefully -- Assure you...

HYMALAYA

The Snow Leopard -- A glimpse -- Of the myth -- In the mist -- But up in -- The Hindu Kush -- Is where -- Such a truth -- Does -- Exist...

FLETCHER SIMPSON

Staten Island --Frickin' Paradise -- Just ask the -- Frickin' residents...

SKYFALL

Went to see Bond and Bourne broke out...Should have been 00Dench...Too serious...Javier's Silva runs out...As Dr. Evil's son Scott says..."I'll go and get a gun and shoot him..."  Baddy-Beautiful chick rubbed out too soon...

WHITE WATER RAFTING

Ohio -- Huck & Jim -- I voted...

SACRAMENTO KINGS

They won't win 25...

SANDY

I'm out here in California but born & raised on Long Island...My heart goes home to all those against the hurricane...

SEVEN PSYCOPATHS

Could have been something but it seemed to be force feeding...Here & there a laugh but the actors seemed bothered by the whole business...And what's with the Vietnam business...Thrown in old business...

TRENCH MOUTH

These debates -- Worn out -- Horses & bayonets...

THE MASTER

Wasn't going to bother but a hot dead day and I can go for free ( a perk in my history ) so...Turns out it was rather remarkable, unusual...Sort of a crazy Tree Of Life without the dinosaurs and the other nonsense...Good to look at...Stunning,unusual performances by Phoenix, Hoffman and Amy Adams...

NORTH STAR

Wanted a poem -- For -- Anne Baxter -- Can't say -- Exactly why -- I guess -- Of course -- I've always been -- In love -- With her -- Sophie -- With Larry Darrell -- And now again -- Mouche -- Five Graves To Cairo -- And of -- All things -- Frank Lloyd's -- Gandaughter...

DEBATES

Obama-Romney -- Was Obama on opium? As soon as he lead with wedding anniversary I was done -- My vote remains but get a clue...Biden-Ryan -- Biden a buffoon...But my vote remains...

OCTOBER

The Fall Classic -- Isn't baseball...

CRYSTAL BRIDGES

Crystal Bridges Museum...Bentonville,Arkansas...Alice Walton of the Wal-Mart Walton's...The building itself is concrete cold with something like an armadillo's hide...But the collection, to use that term,will blow your mind...All American...And it would be...The list of the starting players too long to list...Peale, Benton,Sargent,Warhol,Pollock,Rockwell and you pick one you might want to include...Not too much and more than enough...

KATE TOPLESS

Thank goodness it isn't Prince Charles wife...

ARBITRAGE

Nice...No big deal.. Law & Orderish...Gere lookin' good...Exciting twists...Susan Sarandon could use some sleep...

MUSLIM ARABS

How to light the darkness? "And I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba..." Darkness wins...

US OPEN TENNIS

Andy Murray...Like rooting for the wolfman...Serena Williams...Like rooting for Darth Vader...

COSMOPOLIS

Heart Of Darkness in a stretch limo...Robert Pattinson almost still a Twilight...Vampires of Wall St Kind of boring...

SHARAPOVA-RADWANSKA

Lady and the tramp ( in a good way )...

September -- Closer now -- To the earth's -- Real -- grandeur..

TORA TORA

Hurricane comin' -- Like a monster movie -- Military trucks -- Scientists -- Start to -- Scramblin'...

WOMEN'S TENNIS U.S. OPEN

Why don't the ladies play best 3 of 5 sets? Equal pay for equal work? Absolutely no drama, especially in those early round 6-0-6-0 matches...

FAREWELL MY QUEEN

Was it that gorgeous woman from Midnight In Paris as the Queen's reader? So sensual she is worth it all on her own...But what a film..Perhaps a bit too gentle on Louis and the Mrs. but what a way to see the coming storm...Creepy sad...Maybe too much on my mind about a lot written about Pauline Kael recently...Her take on M.A.S.H. and McCabe & Mrs. Miller...You're there in a real place made a fantasy setting? That's close enough...

IMPOSTER

Sorry I saw it..Somewhat sick with an awful twist with awful people...

NEIL YOUNG JOURNEY'S

Melancholy,Somber...Vanity project...But Neil's soul forever...

GOD & SPORTS

My breaking point came long ago but finally some young lady playing for the women's amateur golf title saying she owed it all to god,and thanking him..."First I want to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ..." Such shamelessness,such arrogance that such a narrow minded belief finds its way into a meaningless sports event...Can you imagine if some athlete thanked Allah or Buddha?

The Campaign

Junk...Not funny...An utter failure...Real meets unreal...

OLYMPICS

Anybody but Bob Costas...Would have liked to see some sailing..Male divers makes you wish you were,well,you know...Viva Mexico...Closing ceremony...Enough is too much...

OLYMPICS

English gentleman announcer for womens soccer absolutely impeccable...as he might say of a player's performance...Croatia & Serbia against each other in anything could be big,bigger than...Platform diving is jumping off a building...Women,women,more women athletes...Can't quite describe the start to four man kayaking...bug like...

OLYMPICS

Horse stuff too rich for my blood--blame Romney...Greco-Roman--I'm afraid of all of them..."Hava Nagila" awesome...Track & Field like a bunch of strangers...something not Wheaties box about it all...China,when free,will dip in metals as Soviets to Russia has...

OLYMPICS

King Michael with a little help from his friends...Ryan Lochte wll never be Phelps...Weight lifters,their multi language encouragement from the wings...Are the female gymn,pixies humans? Handball odd but awesome,same with field hockey...Water polo is wrestling trying not to drown...Archery looks like Robin Hood meets Tool Time...Blind from too much volleyball...

CALM HORSE

A white buffalo -- In Connecticut -- Oh say -- I can see -- A blessed -- Continent...

THE WATCH

A great American movie...Howlingly funny...A suburbs movie Spielberg couldn't make...Vince Vaughn on fire...An American classic...

OLYMPICS

Just The Clash & Kinks for the opening ceremony would have been fine...Bikini clad Argentine beach volleyballers the highlight so far...Fencing very odd...Skeet shooting gold medal for U.S.? I guess...What a thrill for her,whoever she is...U.S. men's basketball is embarrassing..too much, starting with Dream Team...Give college kids a chance...Bob Costas stop dying your hair...More Stephanie & Chris,the ladies with beautiful tan Brian...All female swimmers look like the same woman...Michael Phelps diminished...No chance...Back to the bong..

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Wonderful...Some Homer, some Tennessee Williams, some Katrina, some Jungle Book,some rasta, some voodoo,some Porgy & Bess...

DARK KNIGHT RISES

Too much chat and not enough bat...Shut up Alfred...Couldn't understand Bane..Gary Oldman & Marion C wasted.. Got better as it went...But went on too too...Not enough Anne Hathaway flesh...The actor with three names was too not enough...Things blow up...Colorado??? Too many guns is too much...

LONDON BLITZ

With -- Ralph Lauren -- On their -- Chest -- With -- Chinese slaves -- At the -- Stitch -- In march -- Our Olympians -- A 1936...

BLACK & WHITE BEARD

These -- Cayman Islands -- Set sail -- Raise the -- Jolly Roger -- Run out -- The guns -- These -- Very solvent -- Tortugas...

BASEBALL ALL STAR GAME

Those god awful uniforms. Can't watch if they're not in their own uniforms...

SAVAGES

Excellent.. Close to brilliant...Blake Lively like an Athena to Southern Cali...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN/VAMPIRE HUNTER

I wasn't going to go anywhere near it ( Poor Abe ) but a hot day, needing air conditioning, and the other choice being Ted, I gave it a shot. Not so awful, somewhat inventive with an always cool Domninic Cooper. I was just back from a load of Civil War in Virginia, so...

WHITE LIGHTNING

Mirror mirror -- On the women's -- Wimbledon wall -- The fairest -- Of them all -- Yaraslova Shevodova -- Of Kazikstan -- Like a Woody Allen -- Line -- I could hardly keep -- My eye -- On the ball...

WINNING STREAK

I hope -- That you are -- An actress -- Your good looks -- And sensuality -- Much success and sequels...

UNDONE

Women -- Married -- To men -- Like fences -- Can -- Cheat -- The meadow -- Lie -- The nature -- Such -- Wild flowers -- Put to -- Pasture...

OH,YOU SHOULD HAVE

Flowers -- Of -- Chocolate -- The ultimate -- Compliment...

SOCCER

Spain Over Germany...

TO ROME WITH LOVE

An irritating mess...with Woody Allen leading the way...Like a film making fun of a Woody Allen movie...Insipid dialogue that makes you cringe...

James Franco's Rebel ( James Dean )

A grotesque mistake...A disgrace to the memory of James Dean...Ugly, bloody, stupid, amateurish, cruel, angry, irritating...

MOONRISE KINGDOM

Too cute by half...Felt like a Adam's Family episode...Trying a bit too hard... Harvey Keitel embarrassing.. Why the big stars with so little to do....

DOWN ON THE BY YOU

Your -- Jambalaya -- Like a food -- In Creole -- Saying -- Hallelujah...

US OPEN GOLF

Off to the Open at the "O" Club and you're not...

Prometheous

A big pile of senseless goo...

Sea Of Bees

Local little singer/songwriter who's been getting a lot of local pub. Campus cafe talent, almost not worthy of any comment...Lead in was by somebody called Little Wings? No comment applies...

Snow White & Huntsman

Eh, not much...Kristen Stewart not sexy/trampy enough...

IMMACULATE PERCEPTION

I returned -- To write you -- A poem -- How your -- Tattoos -- Look like -- A stained glass -- Window -- Of a -- Side room -- In the chapel -- Of your -- Beauty...

UPSTARE-DOWNSTARE

Someone must -- Compliment you -- On your -- Painted toe nails -- Like a woman's -- Museum -- Adding -- A new -- Wing...

CALL OF THE WHY NOTILD

Your dark -- Bra straps -- Like the strings -- Of a Lyre -- The island of -- Siren -- And I am -- Homer -- Cutting loose -- Poetic...

YOU &

Could she be -- Greek -- Italian -- Gypsy -- Or Persian -- She seems -- All the one -- From a distance -- Ahh -- The closer -- Pleasure -- To ask -- Her...

GO LADY GO

Danica Patrick -- Oh, man -- Getting caught -- In her -- Traffic ...

Bernie

Boring...More like skit than a flick...

Dark Shadows

Excellent..Johnny Depp somehow losing himself in it...no pirate this...A bit blown up at the end...But excellent...

Avengers

Why,why do I do it? When will I ever learn? I feel stupid,used,humiliated...Watched Bridge On The River Kwai..We'll never see its like again against this replicated junk..Even the New Yorker review gets in on it...

FOOD COURT

Delicatessen -- King of -- All New York -- Restaurants...A.Bourdain

A FAREWELL TO AH,COME ON

Spinach -- In -- Lasagna -- Ain't that just like -- The Italians -- To surrender...

Save Him

Back,back,back -- Mariano -- On the -- Warning track...

LIGHT OF LIFE

Mother's Day -- Should Be -- Some -- Most northern -- Zone -- Where the sun -- Never sets -- Until the -- Aurora Borealis -- Like the -- Bouquet -- Of the -- Gods

Albert Pujols

Be careful what you wish for...

ALLY-OOPS

I hope -- You won't -- Hold It -- Against me -- The compliment -- I paid you -- By my invitation -- To the -- Oscars -- I'm just now -- An innocent -- By-stander -- Customer...

Henry Fonda

Motorcycle Diaries -- James Dean -- Easy Rider...

May

Without -- All the -- Sunshine -- Hay...

Civil Service

Trayvon Martin -- Standing Yer Ground -- Like Little Round Top

CROP CIRCLES

All these -- Restaurants -- Like we've got -- Nothing better -- To do with -- Ourselves...

Cabin In The Woods

Ugh.Ugly,sophmoric Hunger Games knock-off...

April

You're -- So damn -- Beautiful...

Secret Service

Prostitutes -- And the Service -- Flounders -- Of course -- Not quite like -- Kennedy & Lincoln...

Levon Helm

The voice of America -- Is gone -- The night -- All America -- Mourned...

Pulitzer

No Pulitzer for fiction? Maybe that's a sign of our times?

Earth Day

The earth -- Stood still -- For a day -- To asses -- How serious -- Attention to her -- Was being paid -- Somewhat satisfied -- At least -- She thought -- There's the still the Tower Cafe...

The Kings Of Sacramento

Leave ...and take your 20 win seasons with you...

The Raid -- Redemption

Wham-bam thank you man for making it...A great film...Blood & guts to watch it...

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

TVish...Ewan McGregor coming off the wonderful Beginners falls flat & false in this somewhat make-believe...The Sheik is cool...Kristen Scott Thomas is pleasantly pushy...Emily Blunt has a look don't she...
Chick flick...Terrible term but appropriate...

Eleanor

Like an -- Aquitaine -- An Ivanhoe -- A Roosevelt -- On long boats -- On Excalibur lakes -- Of the Norse-- Your daughter -- These names -- Of them all

MLB Pick

Detroit in a walk...

NBA Pick

San Antonio Spurs...Too efficient for everybody else...

Hunger Games

The hunt a total cop out...The rest just nonsense...

John Carter

Not worth a word...

Shakespeare & Juliet

Approaching -- A young -- Lady -- There's absolutely -- No reason -- Not to...

Looking Glass

A book -- As brick -- A Kindle -- As window...

Oscars

Went down to L.A.again for the Oscar weekend. Saw a pile of stars at the Independent Spirit Awards: Colin Farrell,Lou Diamond Philips, Ben Kingsley,Michelle Williams, Benjamin Bratt,Jonah Hill,and many more at the casual affair,as close up and as personal as it can get...Saw Dustin Hoffman on his way to temple in the Fairfax district...Oscars, a total failure as usual...Pulling for Moneyball but everything seemed pre-determined...

Jeremy Lin

What more to say than many many more in the Lin column? Sorry...

149Too

Santa Ana -- Had Mayans -- At the -- Alamo -- Remember -- The conquistadors...

Face The Nation

I asked a Cherokee -- For change of a -- Twenty -- And he looked -- At me -- Like I was -- Andrew Jackson...

SAG Awards

Artist great of course but, again, Brad Pitt & Moneyball you was robbed...

Heart Land

Roses are red -- Wings of Cupid are white -- And Violets are blue -- Now that's a flag -- Love can -- Salute...

Carnage

Jodie Foster is more uptight than in Panic Room...Unreal people...John C. Rielly a dope, Kate Winslet unknown...Christoph Waltz a cliche...Forced and staged...Couldn't last ten minutes as reality...

Golden Globes

Brad Pitt & Moneyball -- You was robbed...Michelle Williams as Marilyn a comedy? Please...The rest was pointless...Except Ms Jolie of course! Another life form from us...Enough of Ms Streep? God bless her...Best movies of 2011 -- Incendies,Jane Eyre,Moneyball,Week With Marilyn,The Guard , Midnight In Paris,The Artist,Ghost Protocol IMAX...

Tinker Tailor Etc.

I don't get it...The woman in Turkey at the start seems to have the name of the mole...Why didn't Smiley just ask Ricky...?

Mission Impossible -- Ghost Protocol

Un-fuckin'-believeable in IMax...Better than 3D by far. Awesomeness...

War Horse

War Horse crap...Germans speaking English with German accents...French too...No way...Cliched & poor acting until you choke on it...