‘Chip ‘N Dale’ Rescues Live-Action/Animated Movie Genre
Chip ‘n Dale’s Rescue Rangers wasn’t a TV show that I was really interested in. I don’t know why. I was at that age I guess where things change. I had liked Duck Tales and Muppet Babies but I was in what they call now my tweens when the show began. I may have caughtContinue reading “‘Chip ‘N Dale’ Rescues Live-Action/Animated Movie Genre”
How ‘Popcorn’ Gave Horror Viewers A Taste Of Metafiction
By the time the 1980s ended, the horror genre was practically on every film critic’s shitlist. After a decade of the slasher genre with the Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies along with dozens of knock-offs, the 1990s started with a clean slate. If you changed the name of the subgenre,Continue reading “How ‘Popcorn’ Gave Horror Viewers A Taste Of Metafiction”
May The Memory Of Vangelis Be Eternal
You may not know the name Vangelis. But you probably remember the scene in Chariots of Fire in which a bunch of young men in white shorts and T-shirts run barefoot along the shores of the beach. Vangelis won the Oscar for his musical score of the movie mixing classical piano with synthesizer sounds. TheContinue reading “May The Memory Of Vangelis Be Eternal”
How Obscure ‘Wild Palms’ Series Foreshadowed The Future
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”
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”
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