Trailer of the Week: The Train (1964)

Sometimes I suspect that this one film is perhaps the best comment on the arts that was ever made.

¡Adios, 2019!

I hope that you and Ms. Kinski have a pleasant departure and that your replacement will be an improvement.

In any event, here's wishing the best to all of my loyal readers in 2019. I know I have not been posting as regularly this past year as much as you all might like but I really am trying to improve on that. May you all have a safe celebration tonight.

Pop Song of the Week: "Downbound Train"

Because I'm all about the happy tunes.

But seriously, folks...

Who doesn't feel like a rider on a downbound train nowadays?

Movie Song of the Week: "Rock Island"

The first example of blue-eyed rap.

Hey, I Don't Remember This Show: Supertrain

I remember hearing rumors of such a show back in the 1970s but I never realized they actually went ahead and made it. Then again, most of my train-related memories in the 1970s involved traveling via Amtrak to visit my Detroit kinfolk. So seeing a show like this right afterwards would have seemed just weird.

Please don't ask me how they got the late mystery novelist Donald E. Westlake to co-create this series. I'm guessing that wasn't one of his more satisfying achievements.