29 | October | 2021 | The Crop Duster

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The Crop Duster has two goals. One is to organize links to my critical work: reviews written for The Herald (Everett, Washington) and Seattle Weekly; and public appearances and TV jobs. Selected past work for Film Comment and elsewhere is also linkified. You may also link to my website of 1980s reviews and learn more about my book on Frankenstein and my graphic novel, ROTTEN.

The second goal is to keep a daily record of films watched, annotated with brisk, brief comments. It's a slightly more advanced version of the movie list I kept, in Flair pen, thumbtacked next to my bed when I was twelve.

The Friday 10/29/2021

Posted on October 29, 2021 by roberthorton

No piece for the Scarecrow blog this week.

I have a new episode of my radio show “The Music and the Movies” posted online, where it will live for two weeks. This one is devoted to music from Dracula movies, where we cover the gamut.

If that one has gone away, check the “Music and the Movies” page to find out what’s current.

Three epochal 1980s films posted to my other website this week. Check out What a Feeling! for vintage reviews of: Curtis Hanson’s Losin’ It, Tom Cruise’s first starring role, which I review in the form of a Dear Penthouse letter; Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, which I am relieved to say I loved; and Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters, which I make clear is really Bill Murray’s Ghostbusters.

On Saturday Oct. 30, 2 pm Pacific Time, join us for a free Zoom session of Scarecrow Academy, where we will talk about John Boorman’s Point Blank as part of our ongoing semester on film noir. Find the sign-up link here, and listen to me introduce the subject below.