Fun Pieces

The Oscar nominations have arrived once again. There has been cheering and jeering, mostly jeering because nobody is ever truly happy with the nominations from the Academy Awards. That’s even more true when a movie like Joker becomes one of only a couple dozen movies with 11 or more nominations. …

We movie fans have been speculating on the Oscars for a while. Would Quentin Tarantino finally get his Best Director award, or get a film that wins Best Picture for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…? Would Martin Scorsese get another Oscar for The Irishman, perhaps his swan song? Well …

My wife thinks I’m crazy: Nestled amongst our much vaunted Blu-ray and DVD collection that includes the likes of Citizen Kane, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Godfather, Boogie Nights and My Own Private Idaho is the behemoth, the Mount Everest of all Blu-ray box-sets. No, not the collected …

Thanks to the amazing streaming services, everyone is obsessed with the latest TV shows these days. From the Crisis on Infinite Earths to The Witcher, you will always find someone talking about the upcoming twists in the shows. Indulging in the fantasies and drama of the fictional world has become …

We are about to enter into a new decade, and studios in Hollywood have lined up some mind-blowing movie projects to keep you entertained in 2020. Some of the upcoming releases include some highly anticipated movies and movie sequels are on the line for viewers to make 2020 another great …

I grew up on television. I was raised by TV. As time presses forward, technology advances, and I have kept up to some degree. I’m all about streaming platforms. I binge shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I’ve got some other apps, like Pluto TV and Filmrise, that I use. …

Are you familiar with the concept of “Dumpuary?” If you are a movie fan, at least of a certain kind, I am sure you are. This is the colloquial term given to January, and to an extent February, by film aficionados. Basically, movie studios have a tendency to dump the …

It’s Christmas time, and I am somebody who writes about music on the occasion. There’s a song I have not yet touched on. In fact, I’ve never touched upon it in my writing. To double down on the “in fact” statements, I’ve never heard the song in its entirety that …

Michael Keaton is a delightful actor. I’ve seen his breakout film Night Shift, which was also a breakout film for Ron Howard as a director. It’s…pretty good. It doesn’t hold up entirely, but it has quite the case. That includes fast-talking young man named Michael Keaton who was bursting with …

Christmas has many traditions. Trees. Lights. Wreaths. People and houses made from gingerbread. And, of course, there’s the music. Literally the day after Thanksgiving the soft rock station in my area turned into a Christmas music station. There are an abundance of Christmas songs out there. Am I a Scrooge …