Tuesday, September 16, 2025
244. Empathy and Revisiting 'Brother's Keeper' (1992)
Recent events have gotten me thinking about Roger Ebert's quote about movies being empathy machines, bringing us closer to people we might think we ha...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
243. 'Making Monsters' With KNB FX Founder Howard Berger and co-author Marshall Julius
Howard Berger and Marshall Julius have a brilliant new book out called 'Making Monsters: Inside Stories From The Creators of Hollywood's Most Iconic C...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
242. 'Videodrome' (1983)
David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' remains a shockingly prescient vision of the world we're living in now: technology overlords using computerized develo...
Sunday, August 24, 2025
241. Just Kids
I recently learned of the senseless death of a friend from elementary school—someone I hadn’t seen in over forty years. His name was Joe Kane. The...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
240. 'A Civil Action' (1998)
Here's the next episode in a little courtroom-drama jag I've been on; it's about the second of screenwriter Steven Zaillian's three directorial effort...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
239. Dead & Company 60th Anniversary Shows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Dead & Company's 60th Anniversary three-show stand is an opportunity to talk about about the living history that the band's music represents, the ongo...
Saturday, August 2, 2025
238. John Grisham's The Rainmaker
In 1996, Francis Ford Coppola needed the money. He was coming off a run of films that included The Godfather Part III, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Jack...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
237. '2010 The Year We Make Contact'
Well, it's come to this. Was it curiosity? Was is discovery? A sense of completism? Oxygen deprivation? Whatever it was, I've now watched '2010: The...
Thursday, June 26, 2025
236. '2001: A Space Odyssey', Part 4
We've come to the end...or is it the beginning? This is part 4 of my series of episodes about the emotional and intellectual contact Stanley Kubrick ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
235. '2001: A Space Odyssey', Part 3
In Part 3, I geek out into how incredible and evocative the HAL sequences are in this film; what an amazing sense of character and personality Kubrick...
Thursday, June 19, 2025
234. '2001: A Space Odyssey', Part 2
In part 2 of my four-part series on 2001, I am going through the TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One) sequence in which Dr. Haywood Floyd of "The Counci...
Monday, June 16, 2025
233. '2001- A Space Odyssey', Part 1
The first of my four-part series on Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' covers some introductory approach notes and the first sequence in the fi...
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