No matter how much of a sure thing it might appear to be, every creative endeavor is a gamble. It can involve the greatest artistic minds in its medium, it…
The film industry pumps out a lot of movies every year — you could go blind trying to patch up all the blind spots in your viewing — and yet…
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 5/30-6/5/21.
I’ll do just about anything to avoid having to listen to Jimmy Buffett’s music.
I don’t have it anymore so I can’t prove this if anyone comes asking for it, but in the press kit for Toots Thielemans’ 1992 album The Brasil Project, there’s…
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 5/16-5/22/21. Music: This was kind of an unfocused listening week for the most part — I spent the early…
As we’ve seen and will continue to see throughout this series, one of the hallmarks of Some Guy Cinema is a conspiracy plot that our hero has to foil. More…
Some highlights of my pop culture diet for the week of 5/9-5/15/21. Music: I’ve been picking my way through the list of artists profiled in the recent New York Times…
We tend to associate most films with just a handful of people — typically the stars, maybe sometimes the director — but even the most indie project is an intensely…
I tracked Danny down at a company called Street Sense, Inc. …didn’t know his relationship to or with the company, just knew that he could be reached there…figured maybe it…
Scribbling down some highlights of my pop culture diet for the week of 5/2-5/8/21. Music: I spent a couple of days prepping for Friday’s FM to MTV podcast recording by…
Before Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, and Ryan Reynolds, there was Ryan O’Neal. Like the first four actors mentioned in the previous sentence, O’Neal was aided in his early…