Well, it’s been a fun week for the film geeks among us, hasn’t it? Star Wars, Fantastic Four put out good trailers, Avengers 2 is in ‘let’s start making concrete plans’ distance, and that other big one…that one deserves its own post (tomorrow). One that I imagine doesn’t have one tenth of the budget that the big boys […]
So now that I’ve watched the whole series, ‘the Clone Wars’ (especially the Netflix exclusive sixth season) is the best Star Wars material to come out in recent memory. But this clip that went viral still deserves an honorable mention. (Said/reacted by every little boy of the past 30 plus years…)
I’m in something of a silly mood and stumbled into this classic. Some of the cracks are definitely mean, many are Hall of Fame put downs, but (while this was for network television) there is something to be said here for the ability to be this damn funny with a bare minimum amount of […]
As this post is about me as a writer, let me do a solid to start. If you’re a blog writer, screenwriter, joke writer, or a like minded member of our ilk, what’s the dreaded word no one wants to hear or be accused of? Stealing. There’s no foolproof method of course, but I […]
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why this is the runaway best film twist in American cinema history. We’ve all been there…
This weekend would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. As a kid, I knew Lennon as a face and a name (much like the Beatles themselves) but not music I heard (or at that time recognized as theirs). As my individual interest in pop culture and music grew, it was only a matter of […]
(Let me open this chapter by saying I almost certainly do more name dropping in the next few paragraphs than you will ever hear me do in a five minute conversation in real life. Nature of the beast…) Like any film geek worth his salt, I knew the names of the filmmakers who either graduated […]
Out of the other black guys in my dorm, one was from Kansas City. He was from the Missouri side, but he loved sports like me. We were on the same floor, so would meet up in our floor lobby to watch Sportscenter. That’s how it started. Now I’m not one of those big ‘I always […]
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