Yes, I am eagerly anticipating the new TRON: Ares movie, the third chapter in the TRON movie franchise. Trust me. I saw the original TRON way back when it first hit cinemas (in my case, it was at the Sangertown Square shopping center in New Hartford, just a few miles away from college). Loved every…
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In the late 1960’s, the most popular television show at the time was Laugh-In, a hyper-scattered comedy variety program that mixed surrealism with one-liners and ribald satire. Here’s the first episode of that series, and you can see the lightning as it flashes in the proverbial bottle. Laugh-In proved so popular that other television networks…
Read MoreNina Conti likes to play with her monkey
Ventriloquism is fun. The ability to throw your voice into an inanimate object, and then convince an audience that the object has its own personality and essence separate from your own, while trying NOT to move your lips throughout the whole performance – that’s tough. And there are a few legendary and famous ventriloquists who…
Read MoreHoly crap, is this the new TRON: Ares trailer??
You can have your “machine with a soul” movies like Ghost in the Shell or The Matrix. Or even old episodes of the Saturday morning TV show ReBoot. That’s fine. Enjoy them. But for me, the concept of humans interacting with a world of artificial intelligence has to begin and end with TRON. I saw…
Read MoreSpeed Racer, the coolest cartoon of all time
NOTE: This article was originally written for Toy Collector Magazine, and was their cover story for their September 2007 issue. Article written by Chuck Miller. Go! Speed Racer Go! Written by Chuck Miller Forty years on, the voices of Speed and Trixie reveal the back story behind the now-classic TV series His skills were unmatched…
Read MoreAll right, choose your weapons. Toilet plungers at 10 paces!
At one point in time,ESPN aired a series of competitive matches involving timber sports. Competitors were challenged with chainsawing logs, rolling logs in water with their feet, and everything short of singing “I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m Okay.” It was a fun little diversion, and I have to say that the program itself was quite…
Read MoreWhen It Played in Albany: March 5, 1981
There’s a specific reason why I picked this date. There’s a reason why I’m traveling back 44 years in time. But we’ll get to that in a moment. On occasion, I’ll pick a specific date in Albany’s history, and then I’ll find out what movies were playing at the local theaters and drive-ins on that…
Read MoreGene Hackman was an actor’s actor.
You don’t win two Academy Awards and a ton of accolades for just being decent on screen. And Gene Hackman was more than decent. He infused life and energy into every role he played, no matter what the genre and no matter what the storyline. Don’t doubt me on this. Take a look at eight…
Read MoreAm I ready for Fantastic Four: First Steps??
Yeah, I’ll admit it. I was a comic book nerd as a kid. And I’m still that person who goes to the “first showing at midnight” premieres for new Marvel movies. Because, yeah. That being said, I realize that there is tremendous anticipation and hype and interest over the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s integration of Marvel’s…
Read More“Groundhog Day” on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club
The “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” is a section of my blog where I finally get around to watching films that EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD has already seen. The category was named after the classic dialogue in Pulp Fiction, where Vinnie and Jules talk about what Quarter Pounders with Cheese are called in France. Now…
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