Million Dollar Mystery is one of those movies that you would come by in the aisles Blockbuster or Hollywood Video 20-25 years ago and think, “Oh, yeah, I remember that movie. Wasn’t there a gimmick to win money.” Producer Dino De Laurentiis said he got the idea when he observed a long line of peopleContinue reading “‘Million Dollar Mystery’ Is How It Got Made In The First Place”
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The Gaslighting Of A Violent Insurrection Attempt
One thing I’ve learned in my life is whenever someone knows they’re wrong, they will do anything and everything to tell you that you’re the one who’s wrong. I was working at a job during the summer of 1994 where one of the managers of K-Mart whose idea of being a supervisor was to yellContinue reading “The Gaslighting Of A Violent Insurrection Attempt”
School’s Out Forever With ‘Graduation Day’
Graduation Day, released in the mid-spring of 1981, would be mostly forgotten if it wasn’t for two key factors. First off, it’s one of the earliest appearances by a young actress named Vanna White, who would go on to find success as the letter turning on Wheel of Forturne, which she has surprisinly been doingContinue reading “School’s Out Forever With ‘Graduation Day’”
‘Girl From Plainville’ Stretches TV Movie Premise Very Thin Into Overlong Limited Series
Warning: This post contains references to a true-case about suicide. Once upon a time, there was a thing called a miniseries. Usually, these TV programs would air two hours in prime time over two, three or four nights. Sometimes, they were bold enough to go longer than that. But usually that was when the storyContinue reading “‘Girl From Plainville’ Stretches TV Movie Premise Very Thin Into Overlong Limited Series”
‘Stranger Things’ Fourth Season Worth The Long Wait
Warning: This post contains spoilers At first glance whenen it premiered on Netflix in 2016, Stranger Things looked a lot like Super 8, that awful overrated Steven Spielbergian fan fiction movie from J.J. Abrams that should’ve been easily called Close Encounters of the Goonies Kind. I’m not saying that the movie was one of theContinue reading “‘Stranger Things’ Fourth Season Worth The Long Wait”
‘Land Of Mine’ Exposes Savagery Of War Falls On The Innocents
Two wrongs don’t make a right, as the old saying goes. What happened during World War II by the Axis of Evil was wrong. But that doesn’t mean the Allied Forces didn’t do some horrible things in retalliation. Monday was the 78th anniversary of Operation Overlord, aka D-Day, when American forces led an invasion onContinue reading “‘Land Of Mine’ Exposes Savagery Of War Falls On The Innocents”
How 1980s Buddy Cop And Action Movies Are Loaded With Homeroticism
By the time the 1980s rolled around, AIDS was being rumored as a “gay cancer” but no one talked about it. Not until Rock Hudson, the famed legendary movie star, came out and announced that he was gay and dying of AIDS. Hudson was a friend of President Ronald Reagan and that was when theContinue reading “How 1980s Buddy Cop And Action Movies Are Loaded With Homeroticism”
Passing The Torch Is Useless If You Extinguish The Flame
This week, the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection coup attempt will meet and have prime-time hearings aired. For some this is a throw back to the Watergate or Iran-Contra Affair hearings being aired. Or as Roger Daltrey sang, “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss.” And of course, weContinue reading “Passing The Torch Is Useless If You Extinguish The Flame”
‘The Adam Project’ Blends Sci-Fi Action With Family Comedy/Drama
The last time Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy teamed up, they produced the video game sci-fi action-comey Free Guy. And I’m going to get a lot of people upset but I was disappointed. I’m not saying that I didn’t enjoy it. I really felt the movie was marketed with us thinking that Reynolds isContinue reading “‘The Adam Project’ Blends Sci-Fi Action With Family Comedy/Drama”
‘Final Exam’ Copies Better Slasher Flicks But Still Makes The Grade
The slasher craze of the 1980s was an odd time in Hollywood. Anyone with a few hundred thousand dollars and some young actors with minimum acting experience could make a movie about a killer who stalks/terrorizes young people. Movies, such as Black Christmas and Halloween, helped to prove you didn’t need a big studio budgetContinue reading “‘Final Exam’ Copies Better Slasher Flicks But Still Makes The Grade”
