The Last Son

A bloody Isaac

Look at the long list of executive producers attached to The Last Son and you’ve got to wonder if they aren’t at least partly responsible for the film’s uncertainty about what it is. Even the title is in dispute – The Last Son of Isaac LeMay is an alternative. It’s got good bones, though, a lean story about Isaac LeMay, an old western hand who, believing himself afflicted by a Cheyenne curse that that one of his own children will kill him, sets off to kill them all before they can kill him. Since Isaac has distributed his seed liberally among the working girls of the Old West, this is some task. (How … Read more

Boogie Nights

Mark Wahlberg and Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights

A movie for every day of the year – a good one 30 December Jeff Lynne born, 1947 On this day in 1947, Jeffrey Lynne was born in Birmingham, UK. Jeff was an early starter and by the age of 16 had formed a band in Birmingham, called first The Hellcats, then The Handicaps, and finally The Andicaps. By 18 he had learnt the rudiments of the studio recording process after buying a Bang & Olufsen BeoCord 2000 reel to reel tape machine, and joined a band called The Nightriders, who changed their name to The Idle Race. In 1970 he joined The Move, at the invitation of former Nightriders/Idle Race member Roy … Read more

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