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The Fail of Skywalker
If you have to explain, months later, what happened in your movie, you didn’t make a good movie
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Kirk Douglas: 1916-2020
Kirk said fuck you to the Hollywood blacklist. And he could act a little.
Read moreCurrent Mood: Jim Rockford
I’d occasionally see reruns of “The Rockford Files” when I was young. I didn’t think too much of it. To me it was like a dozen other 70s and early 80s cop and detective shows for all the good and the bad that entailed. Stuff my parents liked. Give me “The Dukes of Hazard” and “The A-Team” […]
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Sammy Sofferin’s Wonder Bar and Indian Room
A few words on looking for things: When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of […]
Read moreThey’re going to film most of “Hillbilly Elegy” in Georgia
I just read that they’re going to shoot most of the “Hillbilly Elegy” movie in Georgia, not Ohio because Georgia has tax credits for production. I know that’s not J.D. Vance’s decision or anything, but I find it amusing that the movie about a guy who got famous for a book in which he argued […]
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“Field of Dreams” is absolutely terrible
I first saw “Field of Dreams” when it came out in the spring of 1989. I hated it. I saw it again about 15 years ago but nothing had changed. Still hated it. In the ensuing years I began to talk about my hatred of the movie on Twitter and in articles around here based on […]
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