Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? –Indiana Jones On the beaches of Hawaii in the summer of 1977, George Lucas and “director for hire” Steven Spielberg decided to make an adventure movie that hearkened...
Read MoreAs a fan of documentary film, I have long admired the work of writer/director Doug Pray. His 2001 film, Scratch is still the best documentary on DJing I’ve ever seen, and Infamy, his feature-length documentary about...
Read MoreAs a long time music collector, it is always impossible for me to come up with one of those “Twenty-Five Best Albums of All Time,” type lists that magazines, blogs and other media outlets are so fond of creating....
Read MoreWhen Juno was released in December of 2007, I paid very little attention. Knee deep in the throes of yet another Christmas season, a movie about a pregnant teenager wasn’t registering very high on my must-see list. Though...
Read MoreGrowing up, The Waltons was always a television favorite around my house. I’m not really sure why; After all we were kids living in the disco crazed, polyester draped seventies. Yet, every week, we would turn off the music...
Read MoreIn over one hundred years of film making, Hollywood has seen a lot of stars come and go. A lot of them burst on to the scene, make a few films and fade away as quickly as they appear. That’s how celebrity works a lot of...
Read MoreThe fourth season of a series can sometimes be the danger zone. Even great shows have a tendency to, as the phrase goes “jump the shark” as they begin to approach that one hundred episode milestone. Actors get...
Read MoreAfter being nominated for a for a Best Actor in 2007 for his role as Dan Dunne in Half Nelson, no one would have been surprised if Ryan Gosling took the opportunity to cash in and make a series of big budget blockbusters. At...
Read MoreI found this clip of Dusty Springfield singing the classic Temptations hit “Get Ready” and had to post it. Someone emailed me recently asking if her version of “Get Ready” was available on CD. I...
Read MoreBefore Tell Me You Love Me debuted on HBO in September of 2008, the show got a lot of press for the amount of explicit sex the series contained. While that is indeed true, Tell Me You Love Me is geared at an adult audience, to...
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