WHY WASN’T I INVITED??????????
“The Wire,” simply hands-down the best show in the history of television, had a shin dig at the Museum of Moving Image.
Seriously, I would’ve given my left pinky finger for an invitation.
Check out the article here.
Check out everything I wrote leading up to the last season of The Wire here.
Great Wire Article
Generation Kill: The Glossary
Useful guide to the military terms and other craziness being thrown around on HBO’s Generation Kill.
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Cheech and Chong light up for new comedy tour
By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two of the most famous pot smokers during of the 1970s, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, unveiled plans on Wednesday for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years since their acrimonious split.
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Rock On Connecticut
ON THIS DAY . . .
In 1970…Although Connecticut authorities had cancelled the Power Ridge Rock Festival, over 30-thousand people turned up anyway. Medics later said they treated eight-hundred fans for bad reactions to drugs.
Via MTV
Good article on new Sirius/XM
Now that the nation’s only two satellite radio companies have completed their merger, people are wondering what exactly the newly christened Sirius XM Radio will sound like — and who’ll be making those sounds. Crunchgear, for example, asks if the company will renew the contract of XM shock jocks Opie & Anthony now that they’re [...]
Glen Reviews A Movie No One Wants To See
This morning guest-blogging machine Glen Baisley e-mailed me a review for “Lost Boys 2.”
Unfortunately, Glen is one of those children of the 80s who preferred the 1987 vampire flick “Lost Boys” starring the two Coreys over “Near Dark,” an infinitely better vampire flick released the same year.
That’s like favoring “Mobsters” over “Goodfellas,” or Sammy Hagar’s [...]
Ultra, Super-Duper, Jaw-Dropping, Earth-Shattering, Will Change Blogging As You Know It EXCLUSIVE!
Gore effects specialist Brian “I Sell the Dead” Spears has been working in Connecticut recently on “BURNING INSIDE,” a new indie film from husband and wife filmmakers Nathan Wrann and Kimberly Dalton, who comprise Dalton Gang Productions.
I first met Nate and Kim at Fango 2007, which I covered as a freelance piece for another CT [...]
Fango Loves Plague Town
“Plague Town,” the indie horror film shot in Connecticut’s northwest corner, got a great review by Mike Gingold on the Fango Web site.
Gingold says:
As opposed to the chatty murderers—both young and old—overpopulating the genre these days, PLAGUE TOWN’s youthful antagonists are more effective for being silent, sporting prosthetics (by KNOCK KNOCK’s Tate Steinsiek, I SELL [...]
Glen Doesn’t Like the X-Files
Indie filmmaker Glen Baisley has once again muscled his way onto my blog to share his thoughts with the masses.
Today it is “X-Files: I Want to Believe,” which has been hammered by both critics and geeks (although Richard Roeper gave it a positive review).
Here’s Glen:
It’s as bad as the reviews. The climax is just ridiculous. [...]
Sam Raimi Confirms ‘Evil Dead 4′ In the Works!
“While speaking at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for his upcoming horror film, Drag Me To Hell, Raimi said that he’d love to do another Evil Dead film with Bruce Campbell and that he’d like to work on it starting next week with his brother Ivan Raimi.”
Am I the only one out there who hated [...]
