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I was reading somewhere just the other day that someone in France is planning to make a musical out of David Cronenberg's 1986 version of "The Fly." Dear God. What is pop culture coming to? (Even scarier was a comment by one of my co-workers that a similar… Continue reading
So apparently Christian Bale has at least one other thing in common with Michael Keaton besides playing the role of Batman. Both actors do not care much for the character of Robin, the Dark Knight's sidekick. Bale said so just recently in an item reported… Continue reading
Had some company over the weekend: my wife's longtime gal pal, her 10-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old friend. So Friday night we were trying to pick out a movie to watch, and the girls said they had never seen "Jaws." I mean, how can you never have seen… Continue reading
So it seems Columbia is hell-bent on doing a fourth Spider-Man film, penciling in a release date of May 2011. I don't know … do we really need another film? Especially when reaction to the third was so divided? Overall, fourth films in any series are… Continue reading
I'm one of those people who seems to acquire more books than he knows what to do with. They'll clutter up the bookshelves in my home and sooner or later my wife is suggesting that maybe some should be donated to the local public library if I'm not going to… Continue reading
When I was a junior in college, George Carlin came to campus and performed a show. This was April of 1992, and it was pretty exciting to have such a comedy legend in person, up there on stage. In fact, Carlin even consented to an interview for the campus… Continue reading
Anyone who thinks that cats do not have the same level of intelligence, cunning and malicious humor that people are capable of … well, I can only guess that you've never had a cat. Of course, that is a misnomer. People do not have cats as pets. Cats… Continue reading
Okay, question: What franchise started off with a movie that is an undisputed classic, was followed by a second and third that, while they didn't equal the original, were still entertaining, a lame fourth chapter, and saw an actor reprising his signature role… Continue reading
Last time I watched "Batman Returns," I tried an interesting experiment: I wanted to see how much screen time Michael Keaton actually had in the movie. I don't have a stopwatch, but by watching the digital timer on my DVD player, I was still able to keep a… Continue reading
Not sure how many of you have ever had the experience of driving on the wonderful roads we have here in Jersey (I guess that's NEW Jersey as out-of-staters refer to it), but a few months ago, they dropped the speed limit on a 20-mile stretch of the Garden… Continue reading
I'd guess that being a ghost is a strange experience, to say the least, and yet this weekend I think I got an idea of what it must be like. The occasion was the annual reunion weekend at my alma mater over in central New Jersey. So I decided to go; after all,… Continue reading
It's maddening when even the greatest movies have at least one little plot detail that seems so mind-numbingly stupid that it makes what should have been a perfect 10 into a 9.5. I'm talking about the one Achilles heel of the original "Alien" – or perhaps I… Continue reading
