Now the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum(stick)
Happy Thanksgiving! (Due credit: There’s more where that came from.) Continue reading Now the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum(stick)
Happy Thanksgiving! (Due credit: There’s more where that came from.) Continue reading Now the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum(stick)
#6 — Fargo (Joel Coen (and Ethan Coen) Fargo begins with a sly gag. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say it begins with a bit of a prank. A title card appears, asserting that the film that follows is based … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Six
I have a whole jumble of words available for your reading pleasure today. Bu they’re located elsewhere. Continue reading Be still and know, be very, very wise, be sure and go when you know time is right
Much as I’d love to be complete in my moviegoing, feasting my eyes on each and every significant offering to get splashed up on screens, a variety of reasons necessitate a more selective approach. For a long time, I used … Continue reading You rolled them sevens with nothing to lose
72. Uncle Green, You Georgia was a pretty good place for a band to hang their guitar straps in 1989. The little ol’ band from Athens known as R.E.M. cast a mighty shadow over the world of college radio, and … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 72 and 71
When I started working at the college radio station in my freshman year, the first regular shift I held was Monday night’s edition of “Soundstreams.” This was the all request program that 90FM aired (and still airs!) every weeknight from 10:00 p.m. until it was time to conclude our broadcast day at 2:00 a.m. While “all request” was a misnomer (as it is for just about any radio program that uses it, frankly), there were nights when the phone was especially active and huge chunks of my playlist were given over to listener suggestions. It made me dig into music … Continue reading Two for Friday: “Sex With You”
#7 — Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) There are an abundance of reasons why sports stories work so well in the movies. The nature of the games themselves offers up a nice clean narrative line, and the duel of opposing … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Seven
Very few words here. A lot of words elsewhere. Continue reading If you could be anything you want I bet you’d be disappointed, am I right?
At some point, I’m sure it will happen. We’ll assemble one of our Bad Movie Night double features with a film that doesn’t really deserve such a condemnation. It’ll be one of those proudly lurid thrillers that are appealing in … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — The Box/Surrogates
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. When I transitioned away from reading kid-friendly comics about a wealthy … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Marvel Two-in-One by Tom DeFalco and Ron Wilson