A few days ago the algorithm randomly fed me a YouTube short declaring that this nearly 40-year-old television interview featuring Harrison Ford was his “Most SAVAGE” interview ever. Why? Because the reporter, a pre-TODAY Show and “The View” host Meredith Viera, asked the wildly successful actor some rather harsh questions. The interview was for the…
The latest gathering for my local Christmas Con gave me cause to reflect on memories of conventions past. I remember the Q&A for a screening of The Gift of Peace wherein Nikki DeLoach posed a question to the audience: What would we like to see in these films? I gave her my reply directly when speaking to…
Warning: The following article will contain spoilers for some episodes. The early 2000s saw an explosion in crime television programs. CSI debuted to immense popularity and would come to influence how society as a whole views forensic science. Law & Order began branching out with its Special Victims Unit spinoff living on to this day…
Richard Belzer, an actor who parlayed his comedic success into a decades-long tenure in hard-hitting drama, passed away yesterday at the age of 78. Born Richard Jay Belzer in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 4, 1944, he worked as a reporter for the Bridgeport Post before getting into comedy. His stand-up shows led to him joining the…
Warning: The following article will contain spoilers The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious, but wouldn’t it be neat if they weren’t? So reads the disclaimer in the end credits of Deathrow Gameshow, the 1987 satirical film directed and written by Mark Pirro. Live or Die is…
Films that focus on food, whether it be on the preparation of the food, or the joyful consumption of it; have been around for a long time. With the release of 2022’s The Menu we thought this a propitious moment to promulgate a list of our favorite food preparation movies. Here they are, in no…
As I write this, AMC cable channel, Sundance channel and other cable channels that recycle the same “war” movies every Veteran’s Day do not appear to have scheduled those same old movies. Midway, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Berets and Pearl Harbor are among their usual programming for the day where we honor all veterans,…
It’s funny how the news cycle works. Stories have popped up everywhere today about Sharon Stone and her infamous “uncrossed legs” maneuver in 1992’s Basic Instinct. And the media, by and large, have been eating it up. Which is fine, except…. this isn’t new. Initially, I was annoyed about the coverage, which was from a…
Actors’ roles live on long after they’re gone, but there have only been a handful of times where those roles nab award nominations. In its 93 years, the Academy Awards have featured nominees who were no longer among the living 62 times in various categories. Rarely, however, have those people gone on to win (just…
Eddie Murphy’s turn as Rudy Ray Moore in Netflix’s Dolemite is my Name is just inspirational. So much so, I found myself thinking about other movies about filmmaking that left me feeling energized and inspired. Not just about making movies, but about filmmakers themselves. This list doesn’t just focus on feature films, and not all…