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‘Evil Dead Rise’ Doesn’t Shine

For some reason, Hollywood keeps making the same damned movies over and over expecting the same outcome. A movie like Evil Dead Rise has no purpose whatsoever. If you want to watch a good Evil Dead movie, I recommend the first three that Sam Raimi made. Not only did the Raimi who was in herContinue reading “‘Evil Dead Rise’ Doesn’t Shine”

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Forget About ‘Jaws 2’

When Jaws was released in 1975, it changed Hollywood and the entertainment industry for the last 50 years. Many people often point to the movie as the beginning of the end of the New Hollywood era that had been rising with the end of the Hays Code. It’s ironic because Steven Spielberg was a replacementContinue reading “Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Forget About ‘Jaws 2’”

‘Up In Smoke’ Still Gives Off A Good Buzz Many Years Later

Cheech and Chong had been performing in nightclubs and releasing albums for years by the time their first feature movie Up in Smoke came out. But the question was how would audiences respond to a movie about stoners who are just looking to get high and maybe get laid. Remember this was still 1978 whenContinue reading “‘Up In Smoke’ Still Gives Off A Good Buzz Many Years Later”

To Project And Swerve, Usurp The Law

When I was working in Americus, Ga., some days, part of my duties was to go to the Americus Police Department, American Fire and Emergency Services, Georgia State Patrol Barracks and the Sumter Couty Sheriff’s Office and look through the daily logs for any arrests or major incidents of concerns. Most of this stuff IContinue reading “To Project And Swerve, Usurp The Law”

An ‘Ashley Madison Affair’ Some Might Not Want To Remember

In college, one of my writing professors told us to beware of certain literary magazines as they’ll inform us they “accepted” your submissions but they may need some pay for publishing. I even decided to do it sending off some mediocre items and thus getting told it had been “accepted.” I knew it was notContinue reading “An ‘Ashley Madison Affair’ Some Might Not Want To Remember”

You Are Now About To Witness The Strength Of Street Knowledge

By the time N.W.A., a rap group out of southern California was ready to release its album Straight Outta Compton, America was heavily divided among racial barriers that hadn’t been seen in many years. The failure of the Ronald Reagan Administration had been obvious with the collapse of the American Middle Class, the Iran-Contra AffairContinue reading “You Are Now About To Witness The Strength Of Street Knowledge”

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence

I hadn’t heard of Sam Peckinpah in 1988 when I saw Extreme Prejudice on HBO one night. I wasn’t even 10 and I remembered the climax as Nick Nolte as a Texas Ranger gets into a shoot-out with his old friend played by Powers Boothe who is now a drug kingpin south of the border.Continue reading “‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence”

No Good Marketing For Disability Pride Month So It’s Mostly Overlooked

When it comes to LGBTQIA Pride Month or Black History Month, the stores can market it for their own gain. Clothing and apparel as well as other items can line the shelves throughout those months in hopes of being sold. But there’s really no way to market a disability. July is Disability Pride Month. OnContinue reading “No Good Marketing For Disability Pride Month So It’s Mostly Overlooked”

‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures

A movie like Anaconda should have been a disaster. It should have been the type of bad movie a studio makes that bombs so spectacularly executives who greenlit it come to work the Monday after only to find their parking spots painted over. Yet, it didn’t. For a cheesy B-movie like movie released in theContinue reading “‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures”