#15. The Twilight Zone đź’– What do you get when you have an excellent science fiction writer with an easily recognizable voice, a series of timeless anthology stories, a premise of another dimension, and a theme song that sends shivers down your spine? If you answered The Twilight Zone, you deserve a gold medal. The…
Top TV: #16. ER Seasons 1-9
I’m doing something that I’ve never done before on the blog. I’m sporadically counting my picks for all-time greatest shows that I’ve watched throughout my life. I’ve watched TV almost all of my life but after College, I started to watch the shows that so many people love. I’ve had the opportunity to watch shows…
Shazam! : Literal Lightning in a Bottle
I got to see another anticipated film really early due to a promotion from Fandango, and that film was Shazam! Okay, I’m going to be honest here, I was not a DC fan during my grade school years, I was and still am more of a Marvel person, but that didn’t mean that I did…
Captain Marvel: Standard Marvel, Stupid Controversy
At the post end-credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War, we see SHIELD Agents Nick Fury and Maria Hill in a city as they witness the result of Thanos snapping his fingers with The Infinity Gauntlet. They both are decimated, but not before Nick Fury sends a pager and we see an image on the pager,…
Tootsie: Man as a Woman
When I was in my senior year of high school, I was part of the spring musical, we performed Hairspray and I got play the role that was practically made for me to play, Edna Turnblad, a character that is a woman but is played by a man. Preparing for my performance, I took inspiration…
The Lego Movie 2-The Second Part: Bricktastic Fun
If anyone ever told me in 2012 that there would be a successful 2013 animated film that centers on the Lego Construction Toy brand, I would’ve rudely laughed in their faces and would’ve said that I disagree that such a concept would succeed due to most adaptations of toys being absolute box-office poison. Oh, how…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: “Keeping Up with the Jones Family”
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the third film in the franchise and was considered to be the last film until Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out many years later. This film (along with other films such as Batman, Back to the Future Part II, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and The Little…
Glass: A Nineteen Year Disappointment in the Making
Glass is the conclusion to the Eastrail 177 trilogy (Comprised of Unbreakable, Split, and this film) that imposes the idea that Superheroes exist in the real world. It stars Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis as Elijah “Mr. Glass” Price/The Mastermind and David Dunn/The Overseer from Unbreakable and James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde…
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Birth of PG-13
Lucasfilm, 1984 One morning of spring break, over ten years ago, I woke up to my first week day off and decided to turn on my TV to see if there was anything on cable. I turned to the USA channel on 3, and saw that The Mummy Returns was just about to end….
Raiders of the Lost Ark: “Return of the Great Adventure.”
Back in the early 2000’s, I was in Walt Disney World along with my family. We were in Disney Hollywood Studios, known back then as Disney MGM Studios, and were in line for The Great Movie Ride. In the line queue, there was a room that was designed to look like a movie theater and…