It was the spring of 1985, and a few friends and I left our Hamilton College dormitories to travel to Riverside Mall in Utica … for the sole purpose of watching the next installment of the Mad Max film series. That film was Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, and it was a credible follow-up to the…
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It’s the Avengers and me … literally …
Saturday morning. I really wanted to see the new movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, but I had other plans Friday night. No problem, I figured I’d catch a Saturday matinee showing of the 2015 summer blockbuster. Background. A few years ago, I saw the first Avengers movie at Latham Circle Mall’s theater complex. Yeah, at…
Read MoreFound memories in a six-minute short movie
This is kind of a quick blog post, so I hope you understand. I saw this clip on one of my photoblogging sites – it’s an animated movie about a woman who finds a Polaroid camera – and the camera still has film in it. You need to watch this film. And I should warn…
Read More“Frozen” on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club
Chuck, are you telling me you’ve never seen Frozen? Everybody’s seen it. My kids have seen it. They’ve seen it seventy zillion times. They make me watch it every single time. I know every single song and I can’t just let it go, let it go-o-o-o-o… Yep. And as of last night, I was one…
Read MoreThe Princess Bride on the Royale with Cheese Movie Club
Chuck, how in the world have you NEVER seen The Princess Bride? Oh my God this is the greatest fairy tale of our time and you’ve never seen it? Inconceivable. Inconceivable. What in the world is wrong with you? Hey, cut me a break. That’s what the Royale With Cheese Movie Club is designed for…
Read MoreEverything’s better with a lightsaber
It was mentioned by name only once in the Star Wars movies, and it was the first time we saw this elegant weapon. The “lightsaber” was identified when Obi-Wan Kenobi gave Luke Skywalker the glowing sword of energy, as seen in this clip from Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Over the years, technology has…
Read MoreGetting stoked for Mad Max: Fury Road
He was a man who turned in his police gear when his best friend, a fellow cop, was murdered. He lost his soul when his wife and child were killed. And from that moment on, Max Rockatansky became his own fighting force, a man with no allegiance, a man in the wasteland. And from one…
Read MoreSnowpiercer and 7 great “dystopian future” movies
Let me say this right off the bat. I saw Snowpiercer yesterday. The film was amazing. There were plenty of twists and turns and more than a couple of surprises. And I started thinking… I’m a pretty decent fan of post-apocalyptic dystopian future films. You know… the ones where society has suffered a near-wipeout of…
Read MoreNicholas Cage is Left Behind. Or he was left behind. One or the other.
I tried reading the book series at one point in time, but I received the same sick-in-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling as when I tried to read the Mission: Earth novels. Somewhere there was a story… it was just too heavy-handed for me to enjoy. Of course that means I’m in the minority, as millions of people enjoyed…
Read MoreThere are my photos, on the big screen!
There I was, sitting in a small auditorium on the RPI campus. There were maybe about a hundred other people in the room. And up on the screen… for just a second or two… was my print Low Tide at Sunrise. Background. About a month or two ago, I received word that an RPI student…
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