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Fresh is the word: Checking in on Fresh Off the Boat
I was all set to dislike ABC's Fresh Off the Boat before its premiere. It wasn't because it was going to take celebrity chef Eddie Huang's candid and raunchy memoirs about his hip-hop-soundtracked...
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Throwback Thursday: What We Do in the Shadows
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Throwback Thursday: Thor: The Dark World
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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John Carpenter's Lost Themes makes anything sound exciting, whether it's...
John Carpenter, shooting exterior footage for Escape from New YorkThe most significant and impressive piece of work John Carpenter has made in the last 15 years is neither a feature film nor a...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Bob's Burgers, "Midday Run"
On some Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score...
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Tango uniform November echo India November: "AFOS Incognito" begins...
A spy genre music block made up of score cues from both completely fantastical genre pieces (Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol, A View to a Kill) and much more grounded genre pieces that are closer...
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Throwback Thursday: Whiplash
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Black Dynamite, "The Wizard of...
On some Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score...
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Throwback Thursday: The World's End
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Timothy Reckart's inventive "Head Over Heels" may be the first film with a...
It's been such a long time since I've written enthusiastically about a short film that I've forgotten how my own blog style guide's policy goes for when I have to type out titles of short films. So...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Black Dynamite, "The Wizard of...
On some Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score...
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"The Whitest Block Ever" on AFOS is being renamed "Color Box"
The annual Oscar luncheon attended by all the acting nominees will be so white this year the menu will experience an 80 percent increase in mayonnaise. (Photo source: YOMYOMF)The AFOS weekday morning...
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Throwback Thursday: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "All This and...
On some Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score...
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Shows I Miss: An update on Sounding Out the City (the show's selector responds!)
(Photo source: No Curves)Sometimes I'm just in awe of some of the people who read this blog. For instance, Edgar Wright stumbled last week into my Throwback Thursday discussion of the brilliance of The...
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Throwback Thursday: Short Term 12
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Does Bad Boys hold up 20 years after its release?
What I said about Bad Boys as an "eye Teen Reviewer" for the San Jose Mercury News back in 1995 (April 14, a week after Bad Boys' April 7 opening, to be exact), word for word and with every single Merc...
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I hate reunions, while I love how a little application called Adobe Premiere...
(Photo source: A Burger a Day)I don't like looking back at the past. I'd rather think about the present and the future, which is why a recent subject in this blog's Throwback Thursday series, The...
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Throwback Thursday: Fight Club
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Marvel one-shot: Netflix's Daredevil contains the greatest fight scene in MCU...
Over the weekend, I marathoned all 13 episodes of Netflix's Daredevil after the streaming service unveiled all 13 on Friday. I don't call it "binge-watching." It makes watching TV sound like an eating...
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