It Came From The Cineplex: Poltergeist (2015)
Poltergeist (2015) was written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Gil Kenan.Both previously worked on CG animated features, which of course makes them the perfect choice for a remake of a horror...
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This week the American Journal Of Physics, which is apparently a thing, suggested that Christopher Nolan's 2015 film Interstellar should be shown in science and physics classes in order to teach...
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Last week former Baptist pastor Rick Scarborough made a bold public announcement. During a podcast interview, Scarborough declared that if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage, he would set...
View ArticleRemove The Flag? In Our Moment Of Triumph? I Think You Overestimate Their...
DATELINE: CORUSCANT–– This week Shev Mundo, Chancellor of the New Galactic Republic, called for the immediate removal of the Imperial flag from all public buildings in the Southern Hemisphere of the...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Jurassic World
Jurassic World was written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow. It was directed by Trevorrow.Jaffa and Silver previously wrote Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and Dawn Of...
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Happy Thirtieth (!) Anniversary to Back To The Future! It premiered on July 3, 1985. Thirty years! Can you believe it?It went on to become the highest grossing film of 1985, earning $210 in America...
View ArticleThis Week In Controversial TV Decisions
TVLAND Executive Pulls Reruns Of The Dukes Of Hazzard Due To The Fact It's An Awful, Awful ShowNEW YORK, NEW YORK– This week Phillipe Dauman, President and CEO of Viacom Inc., made the controversial...
View ArticleTales From The Video Store: Partial Nudity
Unlike the majority of the world, I don't go in for all this convenient video-on-demand and FlixNet nonsense. Nosiree! Give me an old fashioned, inconvenient Video Store any day! The farther away from...
View ArticleWhat Are Americans Outraged About This Week: Minions
These days Americans love nothing more than feeling outraged. In fact it's replaced baseball as the national pastime. Practically every day the news is filled with various so-called atrocities that are...
View ArticleWorst. Parents. Ever!
Welp, the first trailer for the upcoming Batman V Superman is out. To borrow from the Bard, it's full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.I know it's bad form to criticize a movie before it even...
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This week the New Horizons space probe made history when it sailed past the planet (?) Pluto, after a journey of over three billion miles. The probe came within 7,800 miles of the dwarf planet and gave...
View ArticleBe Careful What You Wish For
Last week a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer premiered at Comic-Con. Unlike most trailers, this one gave us three minutes or so of behind the scenes footage. They spent a good amount of time...
View ArticleWhat's In A Logo?
Above is the new logo for the Evansville Museum, located, not surprisingly, in my home city of Evansville, Indiana.It's actually not a bad logo. I like the way the stylized "E" and "M" interlock and...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Terminator Genisys
Welcome to Flashback Summer '15! So far in the past three months I've seen a Poltergeist, a Mad Max, a Jurassic Park and a Terminator film in the theater. What freakin' year is it? Enough's enough,...
View ArticleThis Week In Too Much Government Bureaucracy
This week the government busybodies at the CDC (otherwise known as the Center For Disease Control) issued a series of pamphlets telling poultry farmers how to run their businesses.The pamphlets were...
View ArticleIf There's A Bright Center To The Universe, You're On The Planet That It's...
DATELINE: CORUSCANT–– This week Shev Mundo, Chancellor of the New Galactic Republic, passed a controversial new bill that recognizes droids as legal citizens, and grants them the same rights as all...
View ArticleNine Other Emotions That Didn't Make The Cut In Pixar's "Inside Out"
Pixar's done it again! Critics and audiences alike have fallen in love with the studio's latest film, Inside Out. It's the story of a young girl named Riley and the wacky cast of personified emotions...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Ant-Man
Ant-Man was written by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. It was directed by Peyton Reed.That's a pretty eclectic (and extensive) pedigree for a film. Wright was the writer and...
View ArticleWhat Are Americans Outraged About This Week: Trophy T-Shirts
These days Americans love nothing more than feeling outraged. In fact it's replaced baseball as the national pastime. Practically every day the news is filled with various so-called atrocities that are...
View ArticleTales From The Video Store: Bloated
Unlike the majority of the world, I don't go in for all this convenient video-on-demand and FlixNet nonsense. Nosiree! Give me an old fashioned, inconvenient Video Store any day! The farther away from...
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