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…
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…
During my sophomore year of high school in 1989-’90, the district implemented a new policy they dubbed Sustained Silent Reading, or SSR for short. The idea was that kids weren’t…
When people talk about action movies, they tend to focus on the form the genre hardened into after the mid-to-late ’80s — pictures about big, steely-eyed heroes whose generally ruthless…
During one evening of my willfully misspent youth, my parents sat me down for a screening of Cool Hand Luke, hoping to show me what happens to smart-assed malcontents who…
I recently found an ancient bag of microcassette tapes containing some of the interviews I did in the early ’90s. Here’s a 15-minute chat with erstwhile Georgia Satellites frontman Dan…
I’ll be a tad scarce around the Web over the next few days, as my sister is visiting with her boyfriend (who brought me two bottles of bourbon — score!),…