Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

  2016-04-24 Some habits die hard / though they probably should   Or thereabouts, line is from this film Band of Robbers , a latter-day version of the Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn story.   What it is in Band of Robbers is that your man Huck Finn and his sidekick Tom Sawyer are updated to be millennial © ops and ® obbers, quite literally, your man Huck (Tom ?) a local © op, and his BFF Tom (Huck ?) just out / of prison.   They reunite, Blues Brothers -style, outside the local penitentiary, only this time it’s not the Bluesmobile, a converted police car, driven by Elwood that comes by to pick up his fare, brother Jake, but policeman Huck (Tom ?) driving an actual police car.   A whole series of picaresque (b) / (m) / (s) / (gl) and just plain / adventures ensue, whole series of picaresque (b) / (m) / (s) / (gl) and just plain / adventures ensuing is all / we gots. Tom’s / the cop, of course (why doncha read / the books before reviewing the movies based on / ...

  4/6/2024       The Fi®st / Omen    That four-lettered word - for a brief two-hour while anyway, until before during and after videeing the ‘®equel’ (wit©h please, -id.) to those ©lassic ho®®o®s from the ‘70s and back in the 20 th , innit monsieu® debonair®e, and playing at the Lansdowne ©ineplex up / the road from here as a 16h00 matinee –that (t)his Saturday after before during and after it becomes Another Sadurday night Before during and after it becomes Another Sadu®day Night and I Ain’t Got Nobody (that’s enough already, -id.) was going to be survivable for (y)our man ©in the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoi®es and the Fi®st / Omen was the timing of the thing, namely his decision to take O-Town’s L®T train from the ©indominium, and not his faithful stead Don’t Let The Suba®u Fool You be©ause why / not, for a visit to the ©hi®op®a©t®ix for an ‘adjustment’ as they’re called, and resulting in his arrival at...

  Apr 1, 2024 Manchu Pichu    What it is in (t)his April Fool’s Day film is that it’s Amazon River Day up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on here on Amazon Prime - this one based on ‘ a true story’ as we do and about an Israeli student ‘out to see / the world’ and played by Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe in (t)hs film Jungle, and (t)his sidekick this time around rather than one of the Baginseseseseseses (wrong franchise, right actor, -id(iot).) is an aggravating Euro, a Swiss teacher on sabbatical as we do , a true story is all / we gots.   Course ‘anyone can see’, (y)our man Bilbo mansplains the same better to his fellow backpackers at the hostel - (t)here’s (y)our first hint of how things are going to turn out for (y)our men the protagonists - ‘Monchu / Picho’, but that it takes a more intrepid type of Euros to be after going into the damn jungle, bitches, and so off / they go, ‘we are nothing’ (y)our (Ger)man the head German hitchhiker mans...