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‘Young Guns’ The Old West Meets The Brat Pack/MTV Generation

By the 1980s, western movies weren’t so popular after the massive disappointment that is Heaven’s Gate. By the time Young Guns hit theaters on this date, Aug. 12 in 1988, you could count the number of westerns released following the aforementioned box office and critical bomb on your hand and still have some fingers leftContinue reading “‘Young Guns’ The Old West Meets The Brat Pack/MTV Generation”

‘The Sixth Sense’ Earned Its Twist

One of my writing professors, Peter Christopher, who passed away in 2008, used to ask four simple words whenever there was a twist in a story. Did they earn it? Too often, movies use twists when they really mean cheats. Case in point the movie Haute Tension when the protagonist and the killer are oneContinue reading “‘The Sixth Sense’ Earned Its Twist”

Sexism In Athletics Is The Problem, Not Transgendered Athletes

Transgendered athletes has been a hot-button issue for conservative politicians and religious leaders for a number of reasons, but none of them relate to the sports themselves. We’ve heard that they’re worried about how other cisgendered athletes will feel in the locker room. We’ve heard that they’re worried about fairness. We’ve heard they’re worried aboutContinue reading “Sexism In Athletics Is The Problem, Not Transgendered Athletes”

‘Aftermath’ A Paint By Numbers Thriller With Some Good Parts

The only thing that keeps the recently released thriller Aftermath from being your standard Lifetime thriller is the profanity, violence and sexual content. It’s a bit longer than the 95-minute thrillers that you see on cable TV. And that is it’s problem. If Aftermath had been a little shorter and a little tighter, it would’veContinue reading “‘Aftermath’ A Paint By Numbers Thriller With Some Good Parts”

‘Val’ Exposes The Faults In All Of Us

I first saw Val Kilmer in the movie Real Genius, which I posted about the other day. Then, there was Top Gun and Willow. Like many young actors, he was on his way to the top after some hit movies, but by the mid-1990s almost a decade after his start in Hollywood, problems arose. ItContinue reading “‘Val’ Exposes The Faults In All Of Us”

Markie Post Was The Glue That Held ‘Night Court’ Together

Night Court is one of my favorite TV sitcoms. I think next to The Golden Girls and Seinfeld, I’ve seen each episode repeatedly over the years and never grow tired. I think the show helped frame my sense of humor when I was younger. The show focused on the strange characters and stranger cases thatContinue reading “Markie Post Was The Glue That Held ‘Night Court’ Together”

‘Reservation Dogs’ Has Some Bite

I’ve lived in Oklahoma since 2002. I didn’t grow up here but I grew up in northwest Georgia, which used to be the Cherokee Nation capital before the Trail of Tears forced many indigenous Native Americans to Oklahoma. I do have Cherokee ancestry, though. You don’t have to be an indigenous person or live inContinue reading “‘Reservation Dogs’ Has Some Bite”

John DeLorean Documentary Stalls But Still Reaches Its Finish Line

I’m only giving the TV docuseries Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean a favorable review only because it goes into such detail to tell us the man was such a crook and bad person. Like the docuseries on the Frye Festival, there’s so much you can listen to before you get the idea, but DeLorean wasContinue reading “John DeLorean Documentary Stalls But Still Reaches Its Finish Line”

Forty Years Of Taking A Ride On ‘Heavy Metal’

I saw Heavy Metal for the first time the way a lot of people of the 1980s and 1990s saw it, on late-night cable TV. The very R-rated animated feature, based on the magazine of the same, consisted of several vignettes, wasn’t available in any video rental places thanks to licensing disagreements. In the earlyContinue reading “Forty Years Of Taking A Ride On ‘Heavy Metal’”