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 […]
Aaron Rahsaan Thomas and Malik Aziz share an unique, common background. Both young men are natives of Kansas City, Kansas, graduates of the University of Kansas and went to grad school at the University of Southern California. They both grew up in the ‘golden age of hip hop’ and share a passion for films. For […]
I’ve got quite a lot going on so I can’t promise I’ll finish this, but I have to at least throw out a few predictions for the Oscars this weekend: Best Supporting Actress Personal Favorite: Hailee Steinfeld had a star making turn in True Grit. Part of the history of the Supporting categories are […]
A lot of movie talk among friends this week – I thought I’d post my thoughts on three different castings… Willow Smith in a remake of Annie – I mean, did this even have to get ‘sold’? Little Jada has a hit song under her belt, her brother had a nice hit (and respectable remake) […]
A couple weeks into 2010, the last film I wrote and directed was being introduced to a national audience by a movie star. With a couple of weeks to go in 2010, I got to host a show where I gave an up and coming rapper/producer his first television experience. I love the harmony […]
To paraphrase the Sports Guy, the ‘underdog boxer’ genre has probably been worn dry. Like the gangster genre, boxing has created some of the greatest films ever made (with the Rocky series and Raging Bull immediately coming to mind). The standard is ridiculously high. I go with that lead in to say The Fighter is […]
TV and film-wise, there was good work as always but I wasn’t as overwhelmed by things as I have been in years past. There’s going to be a lot of ‘Top 10’ lists the next couple weeks; here are 5 films and TV shows that caught my eye the past 12 months: 5. Toy Story […]
Time for another geeky post… As the countdown to Batman 3 officially begins, Warner Brothers released an animated version of the comic story, “Under the Red Hood.” Like its namesake, this animated film centers on a new supervillain in Gotham taking on the persona of the Red Hood. Or rather, an ‘old’ villain. The […]
There’s Chris Nolan and there’s everybody else right now. That was my first thought walking out of Inception a little while ago. I’m not saying there aren’t other filmmakers capable of making films as thought provoking or visually interesting as him; nothing could be further from the truth. But with the billion dollar Dark Knight […]
The posts here have slowed to a crawl for a number of reasons; one of the biggest being that I’m dealing with an extraordinary amount of stress in my private life. For the benefit of anyone who may be reading me or this blog for the first time, I’ll tell you upfront this post will […]
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