This is a list of posts published in July 2006.
As my constant readers may have noticed, the steady stream of content has dried a bit during these summer months. Some of that you can chalk that up to normal summer doldrums (it’s so hard to write when I could be outside playing Kick the Can or brushing up on my So You Think You [...]
The older I get, the more I grasp the concept of tempus fugit.
Time flies, baby.
After all, here I am in late July – the year more than half over – and stunned by how quickly each page seems to tear itself from the calendar.
When I was a kid, the summer seemed so blissfully long (some [...]
The late Gene Siskel once applied this logic to determine what makes a good movie. Five good scenes and no bad ones.
I’ll up the ante and say – throw in one great scene and you have a classic.
Today I’ve decided to focus on those scenes that are so picture perfect in execution. I’m talking about [...]
You have only your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to thank for this.
Bolstered by the webcrawler’s wild success a few summer’s ago, spun to the tune of $500 million earned in international sawbucks, Hollywood has gone comic book crazy.
There’s a reason, beyond good economics, that comic books provide great narratives for film franchise. Once one gets past the [...]
It’s been 9 days since I last posted anything to this site and frankly I’m getting sick of spying Andrew Jackson’s mug every time I boot up the browser (leading me to download a pic of the Croatian Man of Steel). In a bid to blow these summer doldrums away, I have come up with [...]
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