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…) […]
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 […]
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 […]
“There’s no such thing as a small part, just small actors.” – Sidney Lumet Being out of town delayed this post by a few days, but when you’ve contributed to American cinema what Sidney Lumet did, an appreciation is better late than never. Non film geeks be warned, I’m going in on this one. […]
I got home crazy late the other night, but thought I would pass on my experiences at this year’s KC FilmFest: It was my first experience in the Power and Light District. I’ve heard good and bad episodes, but my initial expression was being impressed. I walked down the two blocks to see […]
I’ll be boarding the plane shortly to head the hometown soon. The Kansas City Filmfest is this weekend, I’ll be here and there around the AMC Mainstreet Theatre alot. Lady In My Life will be showing Saturday Night at 10 PM in the Mixed Bag section of the Shorts program; the full schedule of […]
I’m good for one wrestling column a year, and Wrestlemania is this weekend, so… The draw this year for Wrestlemania is the return of ‘the People’s Champ’, the Rock, as the host of Wrestlemania (don’t ask what that means exactly, nobody really knows.) Anyway, immediately upon returning, the Rock referenced having a showdown with […]
So what did I end up doing for my birthday (as I’ve been asked repeatedly…) This story starts a couple years back actually when a friend of mine caught on that I had taken an interest in the Beatles’ catalog of music. So he just goes on and on about how he had just come […]
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