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The Beatles: Get Back, a review by Antares

The Beatles: Get Back (2021) 60/100"White Album", amply illustrates what the world lost when the four went their separate ways after Abbey Road. The real beneficiary of the breakup was George, who was always my favorite Beatle, as he went into the studio and recorded , the album that released Harrison from the chains of bondage that the Lennon-McCartney partnership had forged. Neither John Lennon, nor Paul McCartney ever released an album post-breakup that reached anywhere near the strata of this seminal work from the "get back Jojo...Go home!". There's a moment early in the first episode where Lennon hasn't arrived at Twickenham and Paul is just piddling around on his bass and you see the framework for the song being hatched in Paul's brain. Throughout the first and second episodes, you see Lennon & McCartney adding new lines to the song. There's no malevolence towards Ono in this part of their creative process for the song. The things Lennon conjured up in his head for that interview never happened and probably was due to his discouragement at how his career was turning at that point. I've never blamed Ono for breaking up the Beatles. I think the Lennon we all saw in the mid to late seventies was her doing, but not when he was still in the band. In fact, I've seen other video of Linda Eastman adding her two cents in where it wasn't probably needed. She could be seen as "Yoko"ing Paul with her opinions too. The Beatles broke up because George was tired of only getting his allotted two songs on an album. There's another moment in the documentary where he bemoans the fact to John that he has enough songs to fulfill his part of the next 10 Beatles albums. You can sense his frustration at this fact and the result would be "All Things Must Pass". And he's right, the first two albums in that three album release are all quality songs that would have made his statement prophetic.

(From The Beatles: Get Back (2021) on December 28th, 2021)

Arachnophobia, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Arachnophobia
Year: 1990
Director: Frank Marshall
Rating: PG-13
Length: 109 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Jeff Daniels
Harley Jane Kozak
John Goodman
Julian Sands
Stuart Pankin
Brian McNamara

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
This is an enjoyable movie... but one I can only watch but so often... because of my own bad case of arachnophobia. Watching this movie (or any involving spiders) makes my skin crawl.  This movie has a couple faces I am familiar with. First we see Julian Sands... who I know from the first couple Warlock movies. Then for comic relief we have John Goodman who was Dan on Roseanne. I wouldn't say this is the best horror movie I ever seen... probably not even the best movie about spiders. But I do enjoy it... I would say it is an above average movie.



(From The Movies From Within My Lifetime on April 4th, 2011)

The X-Files Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

17. E.B.E.
Original Air Date: February 18, 1994
Scully and Mulder discover evidence of a government cover-up after they learn of an unidentified flying object that was shot down in Iraq had been secretly transported to the United States.

Guest Stars:
Jerry Hardin as Deep Throat
Allan Lysell as Chief Rivers
Peter LaCroix as Ranheim
Bruce Harwood as Byers
Dean Haglund as Langly
Tom Braidwood as Frohike


My Thoughts:
This is a good, interesting episode. And it is the first time we meet The Lone Gunmen.  I don't normally care for the episodes involving aliens as much... but this one was done well.

My Rating:

(From The X-Files Marathon on April 8th, 2010)