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…
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…
My mind wanders. There’s nothing original about this, I know. Everyone daydreams. For years, my livelihood has depended on people seeking distractions, from the benign to the edifying. On the…
I had my first broadband line installed in 1999, just in time to surf the wild mp3 frontier in the heady months before the law stepped in and started cutting…
In the 1996 film Big Night, Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub play brothers who own a slowly failing Italian restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. It’s a premise ripe with comedy,…