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Always something for ALL variety of genres, tastes and eras.The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.comBlogger822125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-71004603546689477532024-03-23T13:48:00.000-07:002024-03-23T13:48:56.490-07:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": BEAT DOWN!! on 3/23/24***<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTT0Bt4Dp37n6WHmdokTdExZiKzVjdhGo8X2qwOIi4so_JqwTSTb6urm1K041HkIns5oFRF-wUoH8fx7SRmyNVr-QzSWAXGjLAqgvT8cbTGanIX6Iv3Jwa85E3MrMIHXx02rB9lZg4OQxZykjy4l8043KSht2OsL3Q85iv98gCLFn2CRkKM0CxQCM2NE/w400-h225/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Bangers; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Beat it!! </i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Paytone One;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"WHIPLASH</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTmpDghBtg8" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #e06666; color: #cc0000; font-family: Righteous; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", goes off about the greatness in "WHIPLASH"!! 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"'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": NOT SORRY! on 3/17/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw7VAF4dIdQsXVGmU3Y18nh-nMFM1fcBVIy_Z9UWSiFvcn6dOl4A8s8TWICWlH-lgiiXTDUziLWXZDo_q-HH_oOqIIu9kkgVAmJ-W7YTGWqkIGq7GtkzAF1u4i4_xFKtt3LlH1_7vlgvJAQNpZYSZO0p79Dy_awn_7tDHMensofXP0Zs2qLtLXBHyUDyI/s320/giphy.gif" width="320" /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #01ffff; font-family: Caveat Brush; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>NO REGRETS for recommending...</i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Henny Penny;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"SORRY TO BOTHER YOU</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_fvltcSvE" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: Bubblegum Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #04ff00;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", says see "SORRY TO BOTHER YOU"!! 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"BETRAYED": UNCONSCIONABLE on 3/16/24***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <u><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">“<span><b>Betrayed”,
“</b></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span><b>Den
Største Forbrytelsen”,</b></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">
(2020): The </span>Darkest<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> of Days</span></b></span></span></span></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jSPfhwlUI40" width="320" youtube-src-id="jSPfhwlUI40"></iframe></div><p></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Betrayed” draws from the true story of the Norwegian boxer
Charles Braude and his family, who were persecuted, arrested and
murdered by the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nazis</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">during
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">World
War II. Appallingly, the entire process was carried out with the
full participation of the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Norwegian
government and the state police, who joined in cold collaboration
with Adolf Hitler to help exact a madman’s barbaric plan to
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">exterminate
all Jews in Europe</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">“<span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Betrayed”
opens as an engaging look into the close-knit Norwegian Braude family
as they actually lived, worked and loved in pre-World War II Oslo.
The film soon shifts to a story altogether different. And absolutely
terrifying.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
real-life nightmare begins with an unexpected knock at the apartment
door of young newlywed couple Charles and Ragnhild Braude. The two
visitors are Norwegian state police officers. With cold detachment,
they bluntly inform this husband of still mere hours that he is being
arrested, though a charge is never stated. As Charles, a promising
boxer on the rise, is whisked away he tells his frantic wife not to
worry. Ragnhild knows better. And so do we.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="259" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjnsCb2MUCabb_nH53XM0ENCkhZXhkuh4tyYulgihzIT46z-YazLf8LN952SMpE7rpKA6sJWnB_BdVqFYQcWFiqOomaxpNTQZ5KXVsCKebY4pGl4osP0eR9r_h9WjDFUAdqXnnlOU7EV-sShZtkJ33eKmhqCSTPul1Q9sXzr1HTYPCU1UKg-xw6XVqAY/w270-h400/Betrayed_film.jpg" width="270" /></div>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span>What
follows is the evil that men do unto men. And women. And even
children. In graphic detail. It is shocking. Beyond sickening. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">And
it is all true.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span>For
Charles “crime” was being Jewish. And for that he, and his
entire family, will be humiliated, tortured and, finally,
slaughtered. </span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There
is a scene midway through “Betrayed” in which Charles (a
brilliant and emotionally gripping performance by ”Kon-Tiki” star
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">J</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">akob
Hoff Oftebro)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
is hurled into a pig sty by a sadistic concentration camp officer.
What we watch (if at all, as this reviewer had to turn away from the
screen several times) is utterly spirit extinguishing. Almost as
tough to take is the well-intentioned attempt afterwards by Charles’s
father and his two brothers to bring a smile to his badly battered
face. Charles manages a laugh. But his eyes can not mask
unspeakable pain. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">The
final moments of “Betrayed” chill to the core. This is agonizing
to witness. And grim beyond description.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">And
while deeply disturbing, these scenes drive home an unconditional and
enduring message to all Norwegians. To the expanse of humankind.
And for all time eternal.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Never
again.</span></p><p class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Paytone One";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What lurks under(her)foot?</span></span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Paytone One";"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Find out in...</span></span></span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";">"The Flower Lady"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #741b47; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! 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"THE BURNING SEA": GAS GREED on 3/16/24***<p align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">“<span><b>The
<span style="color: red;">Burning</span> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sea</span>” (“</b></span></span><strong><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span lang="en-US">Nordsjøen</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span><b>”),
(2022): The Price of Oil</b></span></span></span></span></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yu-Pxb4xAmc" width="320" youtube-src-id="yu-Pxb4xAmc"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>In the</span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
North Atlantic off the Norwegian coast an oil drilling platform has
gone down in spectacular fashion. As researchers scramble to
determine what happened, they soon realize that this is only the
beginning of something much more grave.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It
has been written before on this film review blog that Norwegians love
their disaster flicks. But this tenet probably stands in need of a
little tweak. For a more apt assertion may be that Norwegians love
flicks in which the disasters are wreaked by Mother Nature. And
those in positions of authority, too often blinded by power and
fortune, are rendered helpless.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>Such
is the case in the Norway-made action adventure thriller “The
Burning Sea” (“</span></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nordsjøen</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>”).
Sofia (</span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5056301/?ref_=tt_cl_t_1"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>Kristine
Kujath Thorp</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
is an expert in underwater video gathering. Her single-dad boyfriend
Stian (</span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>Henrik
Bjelland)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
works on one of a slew of the offshore oil rigs in the North Atlantic
Ocean. Practically in the blink of an eye this young couple are
thrust at breakneck speed into calamitous upheaval. Suddenly, and
quite mysteriously (natural or man-made causes?), a drilling platform
tumbles into the bitter cold waters of the vast sea. And Sofia and
Stian are fated to figure prominently in the terrifying bedlam that
ensues. More prominently than they could ever know.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbxmEJbXnQw4HGajPAacfSHiZ-LwGfmPvI1id2QTozER9ObbeO0LqcxUNjwAW_DU4vh9H2cvfc151yuF8Lk1JH7M9ArYYVqovJ0kJmdpbNHTn_SPMplPOY7owAmlJIfIhcbhoL9U30NsVn7g0xA0VaRUbSIKwG7xub2uRTtA86dOvytDFxdtsdyuP4AQ/s320/p21354962_v_h9_ae.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Director
John Andreas Andersen has mined such fertile catastrophic ground
before. His 2018’s “The Quake” brings earth-shattering
pandemonium to Oslo. Once Andersen stomps on the accelerator pedal
in “The Burning Sea”, he does not relent until this spectacular
story’s emotionally gripping final scenes.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>And
here’s another theme yours truly has observed having watched his
fair share of Norwegian cinematic productions. Female characters are
consistently portrayed as tough, resilient and no-nonsense </span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>dårlige
</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>rumper</span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>.
These ain’t no “downstream dolls”, pal. Thorp’s Sofia
carries this torch of regard and respect high here, with action hero
pride and the heart of a lioness.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
does Sofia save the day? And the entirety of the western coastline
of Norge along with it?</span></span></p><p class="western" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here’s
a most enthusiastic recommendation to “take the plunge” and find
out for yourselves!</span></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Paytone One";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What lurks under(her)foot?</span></span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Paytone One";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Find out in...</span></span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";">"The Flower Lady"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #cc0000; font-family: Playball; font-size: x-large;"><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! (youtube.com)</i></span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-38043268788228718602024-03-09T16:26:00.000-08:002024-03-09T16:27:24.215-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "FOUR FALLS OF BUFFALO" added to "JOCK DOC" on 3/9/24***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Four Falls of </span><span style="color: red;">Buffalo</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">” (2015): Never Surrender</span></u></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eIE9SAE28fY" width="320" youtube-src-id="eIE9SAE28fY"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">
The NFL’s Buffalo Bills lost a staggering four straight Super Bowl
title games in the 1990s.
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Brutal, right?
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And yet, here is the reverberant takeaway from the consistently
compelling documentary “Four Falls of Buffalo”.
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As it is on the field of football, so it is across the landscape of
life. We’re gonna lose.</span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">
It is we who decide if that makes us losers.</span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">
And no one else.</span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">
Ask any Bill. Or omni-optimistic citizen of Bills Nation.
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For they will confirm this enduring life lesson learned better than
most anybody ever could.</span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Paytone One; font-size: x-large;">What lurks underfoot?</span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";">"The Flower Lady"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Courgette; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-54985933896720447072024-02-26T12:23:00.000-08:002024-03-17T11:51:12.918-07:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": "REC"ED! on 2/26/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="320" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-Ae2vR7qjsUy63fI5ir5Unn9Ly2epdzaYssgCnUEzvnVaUQuY1gSBamsduzrgP1zbnxsBeTW6ToyRxoiP9EsEF0gk9k45hDYoHYBmAgky72eAiyJ6v0nMeIDl83a_rRWgbdd0f9JYpHagwkhvRsIuNDG5uuj5YzMVP5aamYViOSDlbEbzBPa-NwdcaU/s1600/47a69dfb4daee23991a6ca84bb23fdc2de47524c_00.gif" width="320" /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Paytone One; font-size: x-large;">They'll reach out & <span style="color: #ff00fe;">snatch </span>ya!!</span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Merienda One";"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span>"</span>[REC]</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71NWpmEt3w&t=5s" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: red; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Permanent Marker; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", vaunts the visceral viral virus that ravages all in "REC"!! (youtube.com)</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0YkE_FmAbg2aVBHX14qsrLKgg00fP7vSqLaalFSn8to3yO27YRxnOKwC0BT7-JAUmBj9E3wJw0c5abYqPyLvh4F_oRIqb3_dwDqV-PeizGtLFLolFQn8SvEO5XOpbN9l5jWVkK6gLw3IJXJXx122SxTpd5-p6hV87gMUyOIlmJg3vW9PZj_qZ60LS92k" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-4972015020802543482024-02-24T17:45:00.000-08:002024-02-24T17:45:13.119-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": "SPEED" Kills! on 2/24/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIYyG4ePkC8MSMqfHVK5PJlXkHnzudlBtHPkVYTj_92dRma1Z5CmHOLzPHVrtHV_tDENi0Zq2WLC0V5f876cVpZfj_3Hqn58Aggan6BkaV78dt7giF2ETLezvBG9ddgYtW6RtV6riniB8lO56pVSowrmWqerz2x2cBOFXXS82F0EJTK-1QylixfssIjUc/w400-h210/download.jpg" width="400" /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Paytone One; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Bus Route </span><span style="color: #990000;">BUSTED!!</span></span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Merienda One;"><i><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"Speed</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span></i></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XjX3Wtnv4c&t=5s" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: Bangers; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: black;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", invites you along for the high-octane thrill ride "SPEED"!! (youtube.com)</i></b></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0YkE_FmAbg2aVBHX14qsrLKgg00fP7vSqLaalFSn8to3yO27YRxnOKwC0BT7-JAUmBj9E3wJw0c5abYqPyLvh4F_oRIqb3_dwDqV-PeizGtLFLolFQn8SvEO5XOpbN9l5jWVkK6gLw3IJXJXx122SxTpd5-p6hV87gMUyOIlmJg3vW9PZj_qZ60LS92k" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-64609351076117664282024-02-23T19:47:00.000-08:002024-02-23T19:47:32.797-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": DUMBFEST! on 2/23/24***<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="510" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB1SC1WgE99AVESmyLaDRzBIkojg7uECWOn7FghyphenhyphenhLU_WJeCok57CL_65ANQwQjzhPbKq-kaDSe_V6U2BNL667bbwC7GfZH0sXFhLvXHRZXnMgRRr398iC42HUJsuQzPZcT-Ii9r8oNMcSVmmtczRIqSuLBZ-HBXyddSmkTDiz38UlM1rFGI1h9W3FIhA/w400-h261/107052814838.jpg" width="400" /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Henny Penny;">Run & Hide from this Rubbish!!</span></span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"MADISON COUNTY</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ZR13HbsXQ&t=14s" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #93c47d; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC" maintains "MADISON COUNTY" crushes Brain Cells!! 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"'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": GRRRL POWER! on 2/19/24***<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5EMQ70_3mnupsf2GXvoZL2R3xRuB4nZZStDng0Eka0FE9Gi8cS6btPD4blNQYLlzj_eTL_QAiRQHBGc_AnD5mPS5uVQqs4yzT9b7qoKItrRek5MgVd7xHnUHoIN1VKd0bL-GwOri1Ykq2jq1V0q-dsC0tnEVDTF5CwOB5feoAZ2igf0qIf6kwrZvDw_c/w400-h225/t97zd0r3-720.jpg" width="400" /> </div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Paytone One; font-size: x-large;">Whoop Ass Women!!</span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Abril Fatface;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Annihilation</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTDglrey8Ro" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Marcellus; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: black;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", lauds these Ladies of the Sci-Fi Drama "ANNIHILATION"!! - YouTube</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0YkE_FmAbg2aVBHX14qsrLKgg00fP7vSqLaalFSn8to3yO27YRxnOKwC0BT7-JAUmBj9E3wJw0c5abYqPyLvh4F_oRIqb3_dwDqV-PeizGtLFLolFQn8SvEO5XOpbN9l5jWVkK6gLw3IJXJXx122SxTpd5-p6hV87gMUyOIlmJg3vW9PZj_qZ60LS92k" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-40099006719334505452024-02-18T13:31:00.000-08:002024-02-18T13:31:26.238-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": RANK RABBITS! on 2/18/24***<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="864" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1W-vQWkVrtwbdVXSk_OqQbSigRrceWhGbs9eIZUQU4tQLJ2GdOpPy6_FrcKxO8Dgt_1J6bp5i7H71tetlcJbRR0Ejm5uoVRqpiZLeX5cwZ6u5UxM_58Nw-9bjzPYAOc4MJdpkTK46ra-czdRT5JH6Eebc8QUEOUBvX0cMYF2T1daWqgaW0VXLKx3atJU/w400-h266/MV5BOTk2MTM2MTY5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDQwNDM0OQ@@._V1_.jpg" width="400" /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Creepster; font-size: x-large;">Brutal Bunnies!!</span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Henny Penny;">"YOU'RE NEXT"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ZTSqGjsik&t=7s" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #e69138; font-family: Comic Neue; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", unveils Unwelcome House (Invasion) Guests in "YOU'RE NEXT"!! - YouTube</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-27321135216253501322024-02-17T12:52:00.000-08:002024-02-17T12:52:31.226-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": MAD "MA"MA! on 2/17/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1293" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpDc5vls05Z0QwO068OsELiOn0xAX9QNE9Clx7Ya7F6AHOXQUtqNPBXj2lo3VssitG3dz5jg1QhULGYogLbTfh38jDAdbqg2iZHKLQo862bcmk1nMHjCDWu4rsvOGI5Wlj4sUw4FyngvPK4CRXN7EWz9mjf5SBLCmRbe8Id0FzMNgnD9fjbnE5Xemhmc/s320/MV5BMTA2MjA3ODU0NjBeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDE3NTQxNDcz._V1_.jpg" width="202" /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Henny Penny; font-size: x-large;">MENTAL MOTHER!!</span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah;">"MA"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIN6YzF2R6Y" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ff00fe; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", mulls over a Mother gone MAD in "MA"!! 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"'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": BLOOD & GUTS GAME! on 2/10/24***<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="960" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhyoiDu0M642kCEtonxM81l___rWfHpKzSROCGrXlAbMy7ZR8K2qLh70BIIIMTnSlzfbOZvL_QAxXJzaP1MPy89LSrflbbzOZfKJwRITBTSUMrKoTevrYWnre66UVvAQITYzQUoeOARF6AioESRvTdJp5huarx5c0Pwe94j9oSAl9TKMZR_5l26220TI/w400-h272/iii.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="article-content entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px auto 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Creepster; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Gross </span><span style="color: #0c343d;">Game Show!!</span></i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";">"13 SINS"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-2XcZE4tZI" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #4c1130; color: red; font-family: Fjalla One; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", throws down that "13 SINS" ain't Playin'!! 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"RETRO TIME TRIPPIN'": "JACOB'S LADDER" added on 2/6/24***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: right;"> </span><b style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Yanone Kaffeesatz; font-size: x-large;">"Jacob's Ladder" (2019): Worthy effort falls short of The Original</span></u></b></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/roQEWwh56T4/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/roQEWwh56T4?feature=player_embedded&wmode=opaque" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;" width="320"></iframe><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">If you've seen the 1990 release of "Jacob's Ladder" then you, like me, are bound to find this 2019 remake pales in comparison. <br /><br />It's not that "JL2" is a bad movie. It's actually pretty good. And Michael Ealy ("Barbershop") does a more than admirable job in the lead role here as a deeply emotionally scarred war vet. It's just that this iteration lacks the gritty immediacy and mind-bending disorientation of the Tim Robbins-centric original. <br /><br />And after it's over, your head isn't gonna feel nearly as fucked.</span></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Marcellus;">What's she got to hide?</span></span></i></b></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";"><span style="color: #741b47;">"The Flower Lady"</span></span></b></span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" style="color: #f37a86; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Playball; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! 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"RETRO Wut the HELL??!!": "THE ISLAND" added on 2/6/24***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><u><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Norican;">"The Island"</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia;"> (2011): Detachment from the Mainland and the Land of The Cogent</span></u></b></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L3m23cERFTc/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L3m23cERFTc?feature=player_embedded&wmode=opaque" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;" width="320"></iframe><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;">So "The Island". Heeeere we go. <i>Deep breath</i>...the kid will now give it his best shot...</span><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;">A young Parisian couple go on vacation. The workaholic guy, disillusioned with a life others have fashioned as ideal, balks at first. But, alas, the free-spirited lass coaxes him into the trip. And, boy, what a <i>total</i> trip it shall be. They wind up at an island resort off the coast of Bulgaria. Things seem to be going swimmingly (including making whoopee in the waves). Ah, but not so fast, my friend. Soon the guy, abandoned as a child, begins to believe that his mom is occupying the adjacent room. Next he's detecting dead dudes in stormy waters along with other vile visions. Dreams? Hmmm. Could be. One thing we come to find not conjured is the gent's girlfriend is with child. His kid. He then counter informs her that we have officially arrived at splitsville. She leaves, devastated. He stays delirious. More super strange stuff goes down. Eventually he returns to his Bulgarian hometown of Sofia. Here he literally walks in off the street and becomes a houseguest on the county's version of the TV reality show "Big Brother". Okay, now I'm making stuff up, right?. You would think. But nope, it only <i>seems</i> that way.</span><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOYCHUjNxG_hpxBhyzpJ6obEj4cVmc1GV_LBtzVdKnm11n0BcNLscuh8xY2kFaG7jzzVLPcB3xRqGXjnq61ZVkQmpvorDJqdf951AjN41z7A8GF57DGhoW5c9iF7sFkKcGCWsPeb1qRH1_sJqSVPTWFNHfjJgV59xuAhibMmcpbxUmKA4lSPJ8252Cdg/s320/MV5BMjU5OTU4Nzc4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjM4NzMxNw@@._V1_.jpg" width="236" /></div></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;">At this point, rather than spill the spoiler beans, may I be so bold as to suggest you partake in this bizarro banquet yourself? If you can find it, that is. (I discovered the flick on filmdoo.com).</span><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span><br /><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Then you decide if I'm on my own island when I offer that this whole convoluted chronicle is just flat-out steeped in batshit crazy.</span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Quintessential;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">What lies beneath??!!</span></i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";"><span style="color: #741b47;">"The Flower Lady"</span></span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Playball; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-15833693029307402042024-02-04T17:32:00.000-08:002024-02-04T17:32:03.107-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "RETRO MIND-SCREWING HORROR": "AFTER MIDNIGHT" added on 2/4/24***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b style="background-color: white;"><u><span style="font-family: Abril Fatface;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"After </span>Midnight<span style="color: #20124d;">" (2020): Not to be taken literally......</span><i style="color: #20124d;">weeeeell</i></span></u></b></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><i><br /></i></u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-J4liEMvRU/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r-J4liEMvRU?feature=player_embedded&wmode=opaque" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: times;"><i><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">*Originally posted on 7/21/20</span></u></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: times;"><i><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">The new and super strange horror drama "After Midnight" seems to suggest many subtexts. I'm going with the five steps of wine tasting correlation with the five stages of grief this emotionally torn up guy is going through.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Or maybe it is what he thinks it is.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Nahh. I'm stickin' with the grief thing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Quintessential;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">What lies beneath??!!</span></i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";"><span style="color: #741b47;">"The Flower Lady"</span></span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Playball; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! (youtube.com)</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-15410862727804982572024-02-04T12:08:00.000-08:002024-02-04T12:08:25.132-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": SHORT STORY SHOCKER!! on 2/4/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="736" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pTkYIqyPhmXwqbx_2RBbUMb_17XvcL2XMjpAkdObgLj3RF7TGFIjprqeF0zwe5SXaDH6brwqldxnTrZjFNb6V42-YrQc_3nBgFUkmsDvjLWaEKL-F47oSGpn7H9txtL1MaigrezfwSUh3FA51xZb9GqXvDXAD0fQ_jtK1lbBXnnivb0LrGWsTs2Y9rc/w400-h291/f559c702c7ed23d88b65038617477e2f.jpg" width="400" /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Quintessential; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>What lies beneath??!!</i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: "Abril Fatface";"><span style="color: #741b47;">"The Flower Lady"</span></span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA6mlQI7AdA" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ff00fe; font-family: Playball; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC". A sweet story of "THE FLOWER LADY". And what lies BENEATH!! (youtube.com)</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-43253452841837870922024-02-03T12:25:00.000-08:002024-02-03T12:25:19.374-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": "SHUTTLE"! SHITTLE!! on 2/3/24*** <p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvydviyMiIZXzNX7x5wVISaXUy8zQVFgvwrrRwTkSHoJd9yx5F0eZdcRX_tc8Y50u9yw77FDBMdiM7h4_VX1So2IGu6j4Rr-YJzwBsv8_GCHj1cILIzLsi5iuOVH3it5cTMazQS97g6uyL30V500GKWpu7k669zsS6t4TN_Mp9CeHnuTlT8VfVpn83QYw/w400-h266/Shuttle.original.jpg" width="400" /> </div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Permanent Marker; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Rancid Ride!</i></b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Abril Fatface;">"Shuttle"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUrrj6zA8Yo" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: Bangers; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #ffa400;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", Shouts "SHUN THIS 'SHUTTLE'"!! (youtube.com)</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-43493467770337565712024-01-18T14:25:00.000-08:002024-01-18T14:25:13.998-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": MUCK YER MIND! on 1/18/24***<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="224" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAZfKO_9FpsWINtikf3XPKGBPDczrzJPdhd64dib4YyKG0Nk0X8Q-b5dJ4rY8xwefANcB4Z3TFMahajt7WUcgGsJ6aDA0xHf4zJhixGUkybHjrmOKLPoNrRV4b5O7_dLBR1vhskXaMm0buLH0hjiXDaxXUa1nrPReXtawP16AnK_e_3c-I7cdRj8AB3Hc=w224-h320" width="224" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Rock Salt; font-size: x-large;">It's Watching!</span></i></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: "Henny Penny"; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah;"><span>"</span>Resolution"</span></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQ1QuoGPZs" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: red; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Bangers; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", mines the mind messing manipulator "RESOLUTION"!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-34570209553159951082024-01-15T13:19:00.000-08:002024-01-15T13:19:35.051-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": wtFFF! on 1/15/24***<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2lPhBVVAy064QbtWzkR5oRfHdrJMNvDvJmUKM4T6_5fSHDCUiei97rRJw-5MaBBUEgQwXhnjy-CzLaIEB-Yakt0EDVrWKkLoG2lNyvPKY53HsP6mf0X_l-IabWecj1BzW5caZ328PenFpKVcIGSXgk6ZjoFTj4uEPcpAcMJ1ChFa_neHhzf8XjF-F5FM=w214-h320" width="214" /></div></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Paytone One; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>MIND (f) CONTROL!</i></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Henny Penny; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><i><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"Faults"</b></span></i></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJXyjT-1Ps" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", says if we don't know WHAT happened it's not our "FAULTS"!! (youtube.com)</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-60090028384340897902024-01-14T21:01:00.000-08:002024-01-14T21:01:58.783-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": WEDDED BLITZ! on 1/14/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="512" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH23Lt3Y_0UjOKTWwYfAHkeB6gZNrR1EbyzwWx1X5-S4WIJzaYOfoYSO84wOYKqn2P9HXmDSE7UVnjpTVcd1eTetTButEjttx9iWOdvuafL00H64Dt66S4AFyPIkPT60gt7QxVrRP9XVA9HTnn144eqVIHbU1tGvqXjpCegB8ZWSL_M9AZjQC6synmGgM/w400-h225/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="400" /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Creepster; font-size: x-large;">Nasty Nuptials!</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Henny Penny;"><i><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"Honeymoon</b></span><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">"</b></i></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3QRhuosAc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #ffd966;">J<span>OHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC", warns that this "HONEYMOON" ain't no sticky sweet soiree!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0CpWTmXhho4uox9o9CAazDsFrAwWHB87PXa0TCaU9Ybf3CcaOOG7LlsHB0chmfab3gkGSQFmXScXI4JqMtd0eUU1HmDOLcjfT2xo6fvqEGpCkc0vcoQN5vmMvIaIikuseeXcdbhJX3aOEQLK4b3Xe4XVO2gwGzcQWUf8pB4KmXCBV4OBog5tSpEfWCUg" width="320" /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-2496266864584820372024-01-08T15:37:00.000-08:002024-01-08T15:37:49.156-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": HELL HOUSE! on 1/8/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaVm4_GeZNl6fEWSt0pk983Q0cQNIKxG7NrBzJxo6dpMT9b_HpGZjQx21GecFt7WVzKADIT8p7AgLyQ4UgE88p0pPzp6_GOqi7I1mml1AxzvrJ26UfhUQMhQYEMJGvXDe41x24pd9P2NnjVNlUI6V3MVIVWXTlJVc17YSdr2P5zODYzCa6m70o7DO8tKM/w400-h225/ab92f5ba6bba47e050afdb60d5a3ebd0baff13f7934f8a8a7b29ca4732822b2f.jpg" width="400" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Rock Salt";"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Heinous Hosts!</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: Creepster;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>"</b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The</b></span><span><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Houses</b></span><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> October Built"</b></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrFe2CHQfdY" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #b45f06; font-family: Permanent Marker; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC" beckons beware "THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT"!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMW1JZz0AG4YlgQqGr6tuOZkOk_-vpIUpmhs1FcyqBy67bEy8K2brJqYbwxVwGEzbLn36QVXm1qWDOeJdVMFhFZKtALzZyMo-5OWdiyqUr0QAEf_NNA2diqyPVEnbaPECT7OqubZjM1ryOcUprxoZ66a5mWMBHLu5o1Lgwt5_9wGGEMl8gw2CMS85V65o" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-53547426629038564792024-01-08T10:48:00.000-08:002024-01-08T10:48:50.336-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "'THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC' Reviews and Interviews": I MUST CONFESS! on 1/8/24***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfVi10j2oj9jaw3rSchIzpMKOxUKal9eQLOFg3QwPFsdl3zSgYHYmbCq1lIW2IZWhWvL_Sh1nvAoIVs5qMsyTOVMItgbp0iLgicRF5ER6WRs5BRFg62-RSa96K9zKuyCNq5VyIsoXiiFOqpQv2FByQtF3cUr69ZFKr8xBlcEAsZcIWnI1Q3EolGLsEGA/w400-h225/3eca1a89993178d4bb60ca216883ddd869482a6cb4a77c6cc9b08a259f74b943.jpg" width="400" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Righteous; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">This </span><span style="color: #01ffff;">"CONFESSION"</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe;">is good for the soul!!</span></i></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Paytone One;">"Confession"</span></span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:<br /></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_guB1aI95w" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Merienda One; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC" offers this "CONFESSION"!! - YouTube</i></b></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="400" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMW1JZz0AG4YlgQqGr6tuOZkOk_-vpIUpmhs1FcyqBy67bEy8K2brJqYbwxVwGEzbLn36QVXm1qWDOeJdVMFhFZKtALzZyMo-5OWdiyqUr0QAEf_NNA2diqyPVEnbaPECT7OqubZjM1ryOcUprxoZ66a5mWMBHLu5o1Lgwt5_9wGGEMl8gw2CMS85V65o" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-74225829110308482392024-01-02T15:34:00.000-08:002024-01-02T15:34:53.423-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "THE GIRL FROM OSLO" added to "DRAMATIC THRILLER" on 1/2/24***<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>“<span>The
Girl from Oslo” (2021): </span></u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><span>No End in Sight</span></u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="426" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-BdAqDmODIPYmLXNUUa3FAMla31xI4GdOkQSmg5k6upaGOPOAuYnfqY5275XX7zufBE1FXoewfXjUv4RJRq8thcUzJRsax5vWdWEw3LLdiNCYHCkUdo99_AOEoHnbmHkOdHYmTTfBFvk6VjLx8KYbJBsNp5F6TdGuAKQtTdWF3r2rHjKdC3epPudM1s/s320/THE%20GIRL%20FROM%20OSLO%20Poster%20jpeg%20image.jpg" width="228" /></span></div><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I
do not pretend to be an expert on the political and historical
details as regards The Middle East. Except for that as long as I can
remember it has been a place of relentless unrest and bloody
conflict.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
ten-episode Netflix streaming series “The Girl from Oslo” brings
to bear such dire dynamic in unflinching terms. This Norwegian
production centers squarely on the ongoing hostilities between Israel
and bordering Gaza. Where periodic bomb explosions in heavily
populated communities are commonplace. Where some kids play on dirt
streets in makeshift swings, as other children are rushed by
stretcher, wounded and bleeding, into an ever-present waiting
ambulance, it’s siren piercing the air of another typical day in
The Gaza Strip. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
swiftly-moving story revolves around Pia, a young Norwegian woman,
and her two Israeli friends, a brother and sister. Pia is
vacationing on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. But her purpose in
being there extends beyond leisurely basking on the beach with her
buddies. Pia has someone she intends to call on. Someone who is
most certainly not expecting her visit. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Before
we know it the three are kidnapped by ISIS terrorists and held for
ransom. The asking price? A dozen ISIS prisoners incarcerated in
Israel. If this demand is not met, the trio will all be put to
death.</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As
negotiations for the trio’s freedom tensely plays out we learn many
secrets about the principles involved. Almost everybody here has a
past they regret. And harbors secrets they wish to take to their
graves. Graves which could be dug at any moment in this perpetual
powder keg of the world.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5OlgLAYRsDPqszv2rqQEFLHwn_K1JkdSSarXuGuA140fWc_7CClzMqpZiXNMJYFFx9qzNMxKem1Z7TVE7lmOL1TLWcBPeW5ybN9rGxTd9Ui_3C7i2e8QEZ_ioA7UbJ2a7vFqCDxybzR4gbjOOX3pzuG9R9U7VcgpyuO4qmlGRyVxgICjxISM4BAc278/w400-h225/THE%20GIRL%20FROM%20OSLO%20jpeg%20image.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But at it’s core, “The Girl from Oslo” is about the unwavering ferocity of a mother's love. Four in particular.</span></span></div>
<p align="left" class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">One
who will stop at nothing to realize the release of her daughter.
Even risking a revelation that stands to ruin her very reputation.
Along with a prominent member of Israeli government.</span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">One
who has already lost a husband in service to one terrorist
organization. And now stands to lose a son to another.</span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">One
who has witnessed with her own eyes pain unfathomable. And is
fighting with every fiber of her being to prevent the horrific moment
from happening yet again. It would be a vision from which we can not
comprehend how she can possibly recover. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
one who has built with her husband a precious family and a wonderful
home. Each of which she will be damned to allow be stripped away
from her. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">The
final scene of “The Girl from Oslo” speaks volumes despite not a
single word being uttered.</span></p>
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<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
it amplifies the soul-scarring reality among the residents of this
region of unceasing war-ravaged tumult: Those rare moments of
victory, of redemption both collectively and individually, are fated
forever to be fleeting.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
that generation after generation of deeply ingrained hatred and
resentment for “the other side” shall never, ever, know an end.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Video </span><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Review of</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: Creepster;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">shocking horror revenge classic</span></i></b></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: Creepster;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><b style="animation-iteration-count: 0; font-family: "Rock Salt"; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: #fcff01; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">"I spit on your </span><span style="color: #990000;">grave</span><span style="color: red;">"</span><span style="color: red;">!</span></span></i></span></b></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><b style="animation-iteration-count: 0; font-family: "Rock Salt"; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: #fcff01; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></i></span></b></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><b style="animation-iteration-count: 0; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">On my </span><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: red; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; font-family: verdana; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">YouTube</span></span><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"> Channel now @ this link:</span></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSgd2lAbiu4" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #e06666; color: #cc0000; font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC" talks the primal 1978 Horror Classic "I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE"!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"></span></p><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img border="0" class="" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1337" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EpRLt2rxVy9LcgYIUcF0i6D0gRnuSF1zANpCjayLk6xYTpayONfnAJqBXzEaYD1dFMseDudcemTu03UJ78pW1mBTvXIQuQpIOJfpF-fjRfAowqkf5IUqyMqbfwXeE4L_IJhJFGMd3wYEKcSNrpn1x97pzaJ7pInkjrlTY6KwmFRQwYd-ZGb66PcQ1gA/s320/R.png" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-64398338272480102262023-12-31T12:39:00.000-08:002024-02-04T17:09:03.130-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "RETRO HORROR CRIME MYSTERY": "THE VANISHING" added on 12/31/23***<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Marck Script; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline;">“The Vanishing” (1988) won’t </span><span style="text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">soon </span><span style="color: #01ffff;">fade</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline;"> from </span><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline;">M</span><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline;">emory</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KlO2oIieI44?wmode=opaque" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;" width="320" youtube-src-id="KlO2oIieI44"></iframe></b></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I saw the 1993 American remake of “The Vanishing” starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. I remember thinking of it as okay. The film was directed by George Sluizer, who was also at the helm and co-wrote the story for the 1988 Dutch/French original release. This one makes much more of an impression.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Rex and Saskia are two young lovers on a car trip from Holland to France to do some vacation bicycling together. They make a pit stop at a busy service station for petrol and drinks for the road. Saskia disappears.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Three years later she is still missing without a trace.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="345" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLNUXAf4onYK9sDDCpnjfIPkvXNHTtHlDO2CDXrDCJuZ8UaX9XN___Kb8wo9kIPdQPcGoMQe-SI2AeErvLPuIYWjlFMVOp0e3q5Klew9QFOGEeT-2BnwOeERQMgawqFyb87GGU0-ip3HELoW49B-qFIWaNujSNjck1x5qAINznXWWA5CgcQCkxk0L8nU/s320/1-12809235587.jpg" width="232" /></div><p></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Rex refuses to let his girlfriend's memory fade. He parts with his grip on reality and a new love interest as a result.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Rex begins receiving taunting postcards which he believes to be from Saskia’s abductor. Thus begins a twisted cat-and-mouse game between mentally-deranged hunter and emotionally-damaged surviving victim.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">We learn who this sick fuck is before Rex does. A tightly-wound, remorseless self-absorbed sociopath. Who has diabolically deceived everyone around him to believe he is an unassuming college science professor and family man.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">And who is also smarter than hell.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">And speaking of the netherworld, the ending to these two variations on Sluizer’s chilling theme could not be more disparate. This will resonate should you ever see both of these harrowing efforts.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">With that, I shall leave you hanging.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">And vanish.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 28px; margin: 1em 0px 0in; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Video </span><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">Review of</span></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: Creepster;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: Creepster;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">shocking horror revenge classic</span></i></b></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: Creepster;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><b style="animation-iteration-count: 0; font-family: "Rock Salt"; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: #fcff01; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">"I spit on your </span><span style="color: #990000;">grave</span><span style="color: red;">"</span><span style="color: red;">!</span></span></i></span></b></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><b style="animation-iteration-count: 0; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><b style="animation-iteration-count: 0; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">On my </span><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: red; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; font-family: verdana; transition: none 0s ease 0s;">YouTube</span></span><span style="animation-iteration-count: 0; color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"> Channel now @ this link:</span></span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSgd2lAbiu4" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #e06666; color: #cc0000; font-family: courier; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC" talks the primal 1978 Horror Classic "I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE"!! (youtube.com)</span></i></b></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: 0in none windowtext; padding: 0in;"></span></p><div style="animation-iteration-count: 0; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><img border="0" class="" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1337" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EpRLt2rxVy9LcgYIUcF0i6D0gRnuSF1zANpCjayLk6xYTpayONfnAJqBXzEaYD1dFMseDudcemTu03UJ78pW1mBTvXIQuQpIOJfpF-fjRfAowqkf5IUqyMqbfwXeE4L_IJhJFGMd3wYEKcSNrpn1x97pzaJ7pInkjrlTY6KwmFRQwYd-ZGb66PcQ1gA/s320/R.png" style="-webkit-border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 fill / 9px stretch; border-color: initial; border-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAUCAMAAAC6V+0/AAAAOVBMVEUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD///+8yHYvAAAAEnRSTlMAAgEDBAUJBwYzCw0UChARDghnBteEAAAAhElEQVR4XnWRSxJDIQgEEx1Axd/L/Q8bKCuuyOzsohHxdZLS25LSOV2ULQdflgEiIDu9KqiIFILXXpeEx2ChXwdnKNxUGxc4dZbNfXjPufkp5H0Nwtymq/dltUIweNy9qmXt08EgydDZ6+dT+9Qh9AeGenhROFI0fPjMaCHx6uIlh9/xBSJuB3l0A/6JAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 9 / 9px / 0 stretch; border-style: none; border-width: 9px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 8px;" width="320" /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/johnsmistad/the-quick-flick-critic-fast-fun-film-reviews/"></a></div>The Quick Flick Critichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01662847045008687272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636418462982906765.post-41881801943649031022023-12-26T09:58:00.000-08:002023-12-26T09:58:59.920-08:00***NEW CONTENT! "RETRO ROAD DRAMA": "THE END OF THE TOUR" added on 12/26/23***<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Indie Flower;"><u><span style="color: #b45f06;">"The End of the Tour" (2015): </span>Writing<span style="color: #b45f06;">.</span></u><span style="color: #b45f06; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><u>It ain't for The Faint o' Heart, buddy.</u></b></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DBk1Mrb4RyM/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBk1Mrb4RyM?feature=player_embedded&wmode=opaque" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;" width="320"></iframe><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><p class="western" style="background-color: white; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333;">I am a </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sliced-Lives-1-John-Smistad/dp/B08M21MPQ3/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1AQX4KVO1I9GL&keywords=john+smistad&qid=1703613211&sprefix=john+smistad%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-2" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">writer</span></b></a><span style="color: #333333;">. Not trying to come off as boastful. Grab a pen and a
piece of paper. Jot something down. Voila. You're a writer now,
too.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">The
fact that I write-and sometimes even get published beyond these flick
reviews I love composing for all of you <i>enormously</i> valued
readers-is the main reason I liked "The End of the Tour".
At it's core this is a rumination about the sensibility and soul of a
writer. The drive. The pride. The fragility. The insecurity. The
recognition. The failure. The hurt. All of these deeply felt
emotions are explored and candidly brought to bare in this
based-on-actual-events chronicle of a nearly week-long 1996 interview
between <i>Rolling Stone</i> writer David Lipsky and gifted but
painfully troubled author David Foster Wallace.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjzn0trDGwHadIpx6gnAmONNdoTsVkzTckgZDDPaMbrQgLmhtgVoutA5jW-Xc92Le7zF3q8TveuAUvlVfCIEF4wPkroeFsoHLfWXsVwN6uxQWyQUVLYDxHtrgra_mEM-nbWC45z5saK_y4bEyXQwZBlAcLHGDONT7y-omV8KHNMRm3O5kaMfalfK0Juo/s320/p11623960_p_v10_ab.jpg" width="240" /></div><p></p>
<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">A
couple of things to be aware of when considering this film. You
better be at least a moderate fan of both Jesse Eisenberg and Jason
Segel, who play Lipsky and Wallace, respectively. This is because
every scene we see has either one or both of these guys in it.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">And
you also best be a fan of dialogue. <i>Man</i>, is there a lot of it
in this screenplay by Donald Margulies. Which makes sense, actually,
as this account revolves almost exclusively around words, both
written and spoken.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">We
see the two main characters walking and talking. Sitting and
talking. Lying down and talking. Driving and talking. Flying and
talking. And here's the thing. Most of what we are listening to is
pretty fucking fascinating. At least it was to me.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">"The
End of the Tour" is a double entendre for a book promotion
junket as well as something much more precious. If you don't know
what I'm referring to already, I'm not gonna spoil it for you.
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I'll
let the movie do the talkin'.</span></p><p class="western" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"></p><div class="article-footer" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><p></p><div class="article-content entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px auto 5px; 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color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> Double </span></b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: "Paytone One";">"Death Wishes"!!</span></b></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;">On my</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">YouTube Channel</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"> now @ this link:</span></span></b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFAbSvhPlZQ" style="display: inline; outline: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="background-color: #8e7cc3; color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">JOHN SMISTAD, "THE QUICK FLICK CRITIC" yearns that you watch this review of "DEATH WISH" 1 & 2!! - YouTube</span></i></b></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; 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