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The Golden Age of Disingenuous Chicanery

10 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Isn't that something?  Middle of a drought and thewater commissioner drowns.  Only in L.A."Chinatown   In the spring of 2005, I lived in a defunct motel in Malibu for 2 weeks, free of charge.  It wasn't a motel in the traditional sense, but rather a...

CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THIS YEAR’S #CBFF2025 SELECTED FILM

5 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments SmileToBeFree

  Well done to every one who have being selected for this year’s Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin 2025   It has been another amazing year with the quality of the film being of an incredible standard and so we have made...

Death is Not a Part of Life

10 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"We were searching for a place of refuge for our love,but instead, the road led us to the land of the dead."The Color of Pomegranates   The Color of Pomegranates is a Soviet-Armenian art film made by Sergei Parajanov in 1969.  It tells the story of t...

Dust on a Rainbow

24 Jul 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Beware the average man, the average womanbeware their love, their love is averageseeks average... But there is genius in their hatred"Charles Bukowski   I've met at least 100 master chess players in my life who are forced by circumstance to play Tid...

The Black Phone Movie Review

4 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments logen9f

  The Black Phone is a movie based on Joe Hill's (Stephen King's son) short story. It's a horror/thriller movie set in the 1970s much like other movies based on novels by his dad, Stephen King. Summary The movie's main character played by M...

Slippers on the Ground (a call to arms & legs)

1 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

This is not a call to arms.  It's a call to arms and legs.  We need slippers on the ground to finance the financing of American Migrant, a Rock & Roll road musical across Mexico starring myself and Denver Williams.  Subscribe to me on Subscribestar f...

ANOTHER CHANCE TO SEE CBFF2024 SHORT COMEDY: I Have Heard You Calling in the Night

23 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments SmileToBeFree

  CBFF2024 SHORT COMEDY: I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Paul Bertellotti   CBFF2025 is fast approaching as we continuing our build up to the opening of Carmarthen Bay Film Festival CBFF - Gŵyl Ffilm Bae Caerfyrddin, we are featuring and sh...

A Traditional Awakening

15 Aug 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do."Rumble Fish   The Pablo Smog Foundation is a fish tank posing as a think tank in the pet shop of the world.  The main o...

Mulan (2020) Disney Plus - Review

25 Oct 2024 1 minute read 2 comments logen9f

I finally watched the live action Mulan (2020) on Disney Plus. I liked the live actions remakes like Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin that came out so I had high expectations of this one. Also, Mulan (1998) was one of my favorite Disney movies. image...

Birds of Paradise

31 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I met a piano on the subway today.  He was singing a low and mournful tune.  He was obviously crazy, and the other passengers gave him a wide berth.  The sad piano sat amongst his shopping bags, alone in the corner of the subway car, and ranted and r...