I really hope Hollywood doesn’t screw up the “reboot” of The Shadow. Sam Raimi is involved and he’s one of the few people I’d actually trust with the job. I can’t think of anything he’s done that has been bad, besides Spiderman 3, which, I understand, fell pray to pinheaded studio decisions. More importantly, Raimi treats [...]
I can’t say I’m a dedicated watcher of the Justice League cartoons, but what episodes I’ve seen I’ve really liked. I missed the part of Geek School that involved comic books, so I admit I’m behind the curve, but I do like a good superhero story. This seems to be a good one. I do [...]
As I said in the last episode of The Delivery, filmmakers make a big mistake when they try to “update” an 80s action show or cartoon for a modern audience. They tend to forget that cheesiness was an integral part of most of those shows. When you treat a show far more seriously than it [...]
Regular readers, and those of you who are friends of mine, well know my stance on remaking older movies. In short, it shouldn’t be done because it usually ends in box office shame. However, I’m willing to allow an exception in the case of Clash of the Titans. I liked the original Harry Hamlin joint [...]
I read a couple excellent pieces over the weekend at the Big Hollywood site about the movie “Smokey and the Bandit” and the two men who made the movie happen: Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds. I admit, I didn’t expect to be particularly interested in the stories, but Leo Grim did a heck of a job [...]
I still love the whole world. Boom dee yah dah! By the by, Discovery Channel is running a contest. Make your own video, why not? (By the way, when the key changes and the shuttle lifts off? Goosebumps. Yeah, I’m a music and science geek. What of it?)
At the risk of enraging Take That! Radio’s Twilight Corps, I am posting this clip of highlights from the RiffTrax treatment of Twilight. RiffTrax, for those of you who’ve not heard of it, is what became of the three core members of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew (Mike Nelson, Bill Corbitt, and Kevin Murphy). [...]
Every holiday ought to have its entertainment traditions, and I think it’s time we added a new one to Thanksgiving. Sure, we have football, but what of the holiday specials? Christmas has all the Rankin/Bass specials (Frosty the Snowman, The Year Without A Santa Claus, etc.) and there’s always the Grinch. But what does Thanksgiving, [...]
One of the things I despise when reading movie or music reviews is the unwanted and ill-informed insertion of a political opinion into a piece that ought not to be even a little bit political. That sort of intrusion is a lot like finding a cockroach baked into a delicious brownie that you’ve already half-eaten, [...]
Was there ever a better live music show on television than Bert Sugarman’s The Midnight Special? I think not. It’s too bad that NBC decided to axe the show just because Dick Ebersol wanted to clear the way for the clearly inferior Saturday Night Live. Ebersol dipped into the music genre again with Friday Night [...]
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