The best way to start this is by saying I probably know more about the backstory of this character than most just through having a good friend who’s a diehard fan of this character, but in terms of my expectations for this movie, I wasn’t expecting to be blown away. And as I turns […]
No pun intended but ‘Super 8’ is in almost every way a throwback to an earlier generation of filmmaking. I know I’m not the first person to say this but the early works of Spielberg are all over this bad boy. You don’t have to be a film geek as much as you have […]
The crazy thing about this one is, with the long weekend, I was feeling lazy this afternoon, and almost didn’t go. But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it right, I said ‘What have I got to lose?’ (You see what I did there right? OK, OK, I’ll get to the review…) […]
Wednesday I’ll once again be sitting in as the guest host of ‘Our Town Pasadena’. My guest will be South Pasadena resident and Union lawyer Jake White. We’ll cover a variety of topics including the process of Union lawyers, the current Labor situation, and if the time has finally come for his Clippers to overtake […]
Apparently, it’s all over come Saturday. I haven’t written anything here too personal in a while, but since apparently I only have 48 or so hours left, I thought I’d end it on a high note. If there is no future, then I have to become something that’s not really in my nature, and become […]
Today I share an ‘I believe in Harvey Dent’ style moment. Among the wide variety of friends I have in L.A., in the past few months I’ve spent more time hanging out with and ‘talking shop’ with friends who are involved with the local MMA and wrestling scenes. Running in those circles, I guess it […]
One of the side effects of this boom period of comic book heroes is that everyone gets a shot to shine. The Black Panther is a Marvel character brought into existence to cater specifically to the African-American audience. While the name suggests a superhero based on the Oakland socio-political group, in fact this character is […]
As you can probably guess, I know much more about the characters in the DC Universe than I do about the characters in the Marvel Universe. When Iron Man came out a couple years back, I was as ‘blind’ to the character’s backstory as possible. Thanks to my buddy Vahagn, I know a ‘little’ more […]
When something dramatic happens, I try (if I can) to wait a day before really reacting to it. The gut reaction is usually the right one, but emotions can severely cloud judgment as well. So to go from the initial reports (‘The President is making an announcement, and it can’t wait until tomorrow’) which create […]
So awhile back my friend @thecheesefry turned me on to Flickchart, and I promised after I ranked 1000 films (a solid number I think for anyone who calls himself a film geek) that I would post what my favorites are. The question I used when ranking was this, “It’s Sunday afternoon, there is nothing on […]
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