Best Of 2015: Jeffery X Martin
Published on January 1st, 2016 in: Blu-Ray, Comedy, Horror, Movies, Music, Pro Wrestling, Reissues, Retrovirus, TV |
When you compare and contrast 2015 with other years, it really wasn’t half bad. It was a great year for movies, an absolutely stellar year for music, and television reached new heights of creativity and watchability. Sure, there were some celebrity deaths that shook me to the core (these are still hard times, Dream), but there wasn’t a whole lot to complain about in 2015, except how difficult it was to choose the best things of it.
So let’s start with the movies, shall we? In ascending order, please, Maestro. (more…)
Top 10 Things That Made Me Happy In 2015: Melissa Bratcher
Published on December 31st, 2015 in: Best Of Lists, Movies, Music, TV |
As it is every year, my Top 10 is a mix of things: music, TV, movies and one experience that rises above all others. While 2015 isn’t quite over, and awesome things might still happen, these are things I keep coming back to.
Music Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Published on December 29th, 2015 in: Current Faves, Movies, Music, Music Reviews, Reviews, Soundtracks and Scores |By: Tyler Hodg
Finding a franchise that has produced the same number of memorable musical themes as Star Wars may be a difficult task. The sounds of the films have become iconic pieces in pop culture and remain classic tracks after nearly 40 years.
Movie Review: He Never Died
Published on December 28th, 2015 in: Current Faves, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews |By Tim Murr
WARNING: SPOILERS!
Today in Pop Culture: Let’s All Go to the Movies
Published on December 28th, 2015 in: Movies, Science and Technology, Today In Pop Culture |
The year is 1895. At the Grand Cafe in Paris, France, two brothers are showing off their latest invention. It’s a strange-looking contraption–boxes and a crank all precariously perched atop a wooden tripod. The brothers, Lumière by name, call their odd machine a cinematograph. It is a combination camera, printer, and film projector. And at the Grand Cafe, the crowds have come with money in hand to see moving pictures of the city they live in, the City of Lights.
It is December 28 and, on this day in pop culture history, the ritual of going to the movies was born.
Today In Pop Culture: A Brief History Of Spoilers
Published on December 18th, 2015 in: Movies, The Internets, Today In Pop Culture |
It is 1980, the morning of May 21. School is almost over for the year. I feel the first erratic twitches of puberty grunting through my adrenal glands. More important than any of that, though, more important than girls or grades or how to get better with either of them, is the fact that May 21 is the official release date of The Empire Strikes Back.
And I am ready.
Retro Review: Ghost World
Published on December 16th, 2015 in: Movie Reviews, Movies, Retrovirus, Reviews |
I first saw Ghost World when it hit theaters in 2001. I had just turned 30 and going through a particularly tumultuous period, questioning my choices in pretty much every aspect of my life… like you do when you are about to turn 30.
Today In Pop Culture: The Premiere Of Gone With The Wind
Published on December 15th, 2015 in: Culture Shock, Movies, Today In Pop Culture |
It’s December 15, 1939, and Atlanta is all abuzz. The film, Gone with the Wind, is set to premiere at the Loew’s Grand Theater. Dig this, kids: 300,000 people made a line seven miles long, just to watch the limousines carrying the stars of the film from the airport to the theater. That is possibly the most boring parade imaginable. Oh, look. A car. Oh, look. Another car.
Today In Pop Culture: Jive Talking, London Calling
Published on December 14th, 2015 in: Movies, Music, Today In Pop Culture |
Image from Disco Demolition Night in Chicago; July 12, 1979
Today is an important, nay, pivotal day in pop culture history because of two shocking and relevant events.
Movie Review: People Places Things
Published on December 11th, 2015 in: Comedy, Current Faves, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews |By Tim Murr
Graphic novelist and teacher Will Henry is coming to terms with losing the mother of his daughters to another man while trying to carve out more time in his life to be a hands-on father. And then he meets a new and wonderful woman, but with contradicting signs from his ex, he struggles with whom to pursue.
We’ve seen shades of sad-sack Will Henry in other emotionally wrenching comedies like Tree’s Lounge and Box of Moonlight, and like those films, at the heart of People Places Things there is a simple story of a man in need of a sense of peace.