This blog shall stop at nothing and stay there, bringing all undiscerning readers up to date information about significant items of interest and intrigue that will certainly be interesting to someone somewhere at sometime. I shall also try to avoid being vague.
Die Hard is one of those rare things in nature. Rarer than a hen’s tooth. More rarer than a unicorn. Even more rarer than a Sasquatch riding a unicorn with a hen’s tooth in its innate rareness. No, my friends, enemies, and barely tolerated minor acquaintances at best, Die Hard is one of those rare …
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Franchises are not always obvious. Who knew that taking the framework of 1958’s It: The Terror Beyond Space while mixing in some HR Giger artwork and then coating everything with KY jelly would result in such a hit with audiences? But there was 20th Century Fox, suddenly sitting pretty with Alien’s sizeable box office returns …
As I write this in August 2025, there is still an opportunity to watch incredible creatures eating folks in your local theaters. No, I’m not talking about the unsettling weirdness that is Pedro Pascal in Fantastic Four: First Steps, you sillies! I mean dinosaurs! Honest to goodness, slathered with CGI dinosaurs! Yes, there are probably …
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Due to the startling response that has rocketed forth due to the reaction towards my posts due to my not having enough to do aside from using the word “due” due to my severely limited vocabulary, I have decided to respond to your responses, indulging this wonderful audience with indulgences of my past performances in …
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Ah, comedy! Remember when Hollywood made comedies? I know it seems like an eternity ago, but at one time in the dim and dark past, despite the dysentery and the covered wagons, studios thought that comedies were a worthwhile enterprise. They figured that audiences might pay to laugh at something on the big screen. And …
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I apologize for the length of time it has taken for me to get back on the saddle to get back in the saddle as well in writing. I would love to give a few excuses, but they would all pale in comparison to the truth: I was on a classified mission to save the …
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Yes, I know that Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened yet. However, I also know that it is closer to Christmas today compared to yesterday. But soft, the holidays bring forth that most blessed of events: the Hallmark Christmas movies! As long as there are faded 1990s TV stars, boatloads of cheaper snow up in Canada, and …
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