Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur

Deciphering the Code of Cinema From the Center of Los Feliz by Peter Avellino

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Intolerant Graffiti

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THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE gets brought out for another viewing every New Year’s Eve and while other considerably better films such as THE APART...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

How Hard You Can Get Hit

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It’s now a year since the release of ROCKY BALBOA, the final chapter in the Rocky franchise. I saw the film at a screening several weeks bef...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

I Need The Blood

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Sometimes I feel myself becoming less interested in writing about new films at the time of release. Not because of any negative reactions, b...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Made For Each Other

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It may be one of the best DVD extras ever: the Deleted and Alternate Scenes section of the new, bursting-at-the-seams box set of BLADE RUNNE...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Life's Too Short For Someday

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The fact that the Christmastime setting during a portion of ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE is fairly incidental to the plot doesn’t affect ...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Cocktails and Weapons

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A few scenes into CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR a character mentions Scarsdale and it was enough to throw me out of the movie for a minute or so. As ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

More Times Than She's Had Hot Meals

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“This is one hell of a way to spend Christmas.” --opening line from LAST ACTION HERO, possibly written by Shane Black I stumbled onto a se...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Power Making A Woman Masculine

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December 17th marks the 25th anniversary of the release of TOOTSIE. To put that into appropriate perspective, it means that the film is now ...
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Do Not Stand Up

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I’ve always been a little fascinated by the slight differences in the Universal logo which was used during the 70s and the 80s, the one wher...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

All Through The Night

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Maybe THE OMEGA MAN is a tough movie to defend, but sometimes I still imagine driving around town while an 8 track of the Theme from A SUMME...
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Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellino
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I'm a writer. I live in Los Feliz. Sometimes I go to the movies. There's more to tell, but not just now.
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