While most people are pointing to The Simpsons and Family Guy for their odd predictions of the future events, one 1990s TV show is rarely ever mentioned. It’s no surprise. Wild Palms, which aired this week in 1993 on ABC has been mostly forgotten after it was hyped up a lot especially for a TVContinue reading “How Obscure ‘Wild Palms’ Series Foreshadowed The Future”
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We Need To Talk About Racist Killers
There’s no way to sugarcoat what happened over the weekend in Buffalo, N.Y. Back in 2015 when that piece of garbage Dylann Roof shot up the Emanuel African Methodist Episocal Church in Charleston, S.C., the argument was Roof had an aversion to Christianity. I even heard this from the mouths of black people. He evenContinue reading “We Need To Talk About Racist Killers”
‘Winning Time’ Presents Rough Gameplan for L.A. Lakers
The turmoil surrounding the 1979-1980 season of the Los Angeles Lakers was one that would eventually be made into a movie or series. There were so many incidents that happened on the court and especially off that one would think they came from the mind of a writer. Winning Time: The Rise of Lakers DynastyContinue reading “‘Winning Time’ Presents Rough Gameplan for L.A. Lakers”
‘Candy’ Leaves Both Pleasant And Bitter Taste
WARNING: This post may contain possible spoilers! Hulu’s limited series Candy details the infamous 1980 brutally killing of Betty Gore, a former middle school teacher, in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Wylie, Texas. And like most true-crime series, there’s something good for it and something bad. Like the titular character, it can be very fillingContinue reading “‘Candy’ Leaves Both Pleasant And Bitter Taste”
Fred Ward: Usually A Character Actor, Sometimes A Leading Man
Fred Ward was basically born too late. If he had been born a generation younger, he would’ve been along with other actors of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, such as Broderick Crawford, Fredric March and Ray Miland. They were actors playing men who had been through a lot in their lives and had the scarsContinue reading “Fred Ward: Usually A Character Actor, Sometimes A Leading Man”
‘Firestarter’ Fizzles Faster Than Damp Crumbled Kindling Paper
When the two best things you can say about the latest version of Firestarter is that it’s not as long as the 1984 version and they’ve cast a real Indigenous Native American this time, you know it’s not going to be good. Blumhouse tackles an updated version of the Stephen King novel, which I didn’tContinue reading “‘Firestarter’ Fizzles Faster Than Damp Crumbled Kindling Paper”
‘Black Hole’ Sucks All Excitement Out Of Disney Sci-Fi Movie
Sci-fi space movies were nothing new when Star Wars became a huge hit in 1977. But, every major studio and production company pulled out all the stops with the knock-offs. Roger Corman did Battle Beyond the Stars. On TV, we had Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica. Even Mork & Mindy came about because of StarContinue reading “‘Black Hole’ Sucks All Excitement Out Of Disney Sci-Fi Movie”
‘Moon Knight’ Never Finds Its Shining Armor
I’m not the best person to review the Moon Knight series on Disney-Plus. I guess I’m coming in as the layperson reviewer. The latest series in the MCU follows Oscar Isaac as a man with dissociative identity disorder who appears as three characters but we never know which is which. As Marc Spector he isContinue reading “‘Moon Knight’ Never Finds Its Shining Armor”
‘Lost City’ Reboots ‘Romancing The Stone’ For New Generation
You can’t go into The Lost City without thinking almost immediately that it seems like a reboot/remake of Romancing the Stone, the surprise 1984 hit that rebuilt Michael Douglas’ career as a leading man and made Kathleen Turner the star she became. Originally thought to be a disaster, Robert Zemeckis, the director of that movie,Continue reading “‘Lost City’ Reboots ‘Romancing The Stone’ For New Generation”
‘The Outfit’ Weaves Snug Crime Thriller
Mark Rylance has been acting on the stage, TV and movie screen since the early 1980s, but he gained more prominence following his Oscar-winning role as Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg’s historical drama Bridge of Spies. Rylance was able to pull an unforgettable performance out of what would normally be dismissed as “dadporn.” And sinceContinue reading “‘The Outfit’ Weaves Snug Crime Thriller”
