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AFOS Blog Rewind: Wolfpop has a pair of movie talk shows that are worth your...
The following is a repost of my November 20, 2014 discussion of Maltin on Movies and Denzel Washington Is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period.Midroll Media's Wolfpop is a new sister network to the...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Oscar-winning Room star Brie Larson has had a killer year as a dramatic performer, so it's time to revisit my March 5, 2015 discussion of an offbeat cult movie in which Larson got to revisit her...
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I'm trying to put an end to my history of writing a piece of fiction and...
I'm too busy working on a manuscript for a prose novel right now to post any new material for the AFOS blog. I've discovered that it takes me an entire week to finish writing each chapter in this...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Rick and Morty, "The Ricks Must Be Crazy"
The following is a repost of my September 4, 2015 discussion of "The Ricks Must Be Crazy," an episode of Rick and Morty. "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" can be streamed in its entirety on Hulu."The Ricks...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
(Photo source: 20th Century Fox)The following is a repost of my September 3, 2015 discussion of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.The most astounding thing about director Rupert Wyatt's 2011 surprise hit...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Young Justice, "Bloodlines"
The third season of the CW's The Flash begins tonight, so the following is a repost of my June 5, 2012 discussion of the Young Justice episode "Bloodlines," a story that united four generations of DC...
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Archer's season 8 plans could be the greatest fuck-you to continuity since...
When we last saw Sterling Archer, he was, like William Holden in Sunset Boulevard, face down in a pool and dead from multiple gunshot wounds. But that shocker of a season finale twist ending back in...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: The Simpsons, "Halloween of Horror"
(Photo source: FY Springfield)This week, The Simpsons aired its 600th episode, "Treehouse of Horror XXVII." The following is a repost of my October 30, 2015 discussion of the first Simpsons Halloween...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: The Guest
The following is a repost of my October 29, 2015 discussion of The Guest. After I published this post, Dan Stevens, the film's star, was cast as the title character on Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley's...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Mad Max: Fury Road
Last year, George Miller announced his plans to release on Blu-ray a black-and-white cut of Mad Max: Fury Road, but that black-and-white cut never did surface on Blu-ray. Its absence from the...
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The novel I've been writing is set in a Drumpfian world of science under...
Protesters in Seattle on the day after Election Day (Photo source:The Atlantic)Protesters in San Francisco on the night after Election DaySince August, I've been working on a manuscript for a sci-fi...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Source Code (with guest blogger Hardeep Aujla)
The following is a repost of a November 19, 2015 discussion of Source Code written by guest blogger Hardeep Aujla of Word Is Bond. Duncan Jones, the director of Source Code, most recently brought us...
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Star Trek 101 and beyond
Star Trek III: The Search for SpockI have a couple of confessions to make. I run a Tumblr about accidental Star Trek cosplay, but as an adult, I've never cosplayed as anybody, and I don't plan to ever...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: The Cabin in the Woods (with guest blogger Hardeep Aujla)
It feels like the end times right now. Yay!So here's a repost of an August 20, 2015 discussion of a cleverly scripted 2012 cult favorite about the end times, which was contributed by guest blogger...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Not everyone's a critic, which was why Fox's enormously...
Last week, Uproxx posted a lengthy and enjoyable interview with longtime writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss about their short-lived but well-remembered creation, the '90s animated show The Critic....
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The AFOS blog is switching from weekly to monthly in 2017 and will come to an...
Ken Levine, the former Cheers and Frasier writer who was also an announcer for the Mariners and the Padres, once wrote that he does a blog about comedy writing, showbiz, the radio industry and baseball...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Selma
After directing Selma, the 2014 movie that won a Best Original Song Oscar for the Common/John Legend track "Glory," Ava DuVernay has, in addition to being the first filmmaker to ever inspire a Barbie...
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They're coming to rescore you, Barbra
Morricone Youth, clad in Michael Myers masks while covering the Halloween themeIn 2015, the Jersey Journal interviewed guitarist Devon E. Levins, the founder of the New York band Morricone Youth, about...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary by upholding the...
Peter Capaldi, the current star of Doctor Who, returns as the Doctor this holiday season in "The Return of Doctor Mysterio."The following is a repost of my November 26, 2013 discussion of "The Day of...
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Atlanta season 1's sweetest move was an old 30 Rock move: it never tried to...
This is the first of 12 or 13 blog posts that will be posted on a monthly basis from now until this blog's final post in December 2017.I was skeptical about Donald Glover's Atlanta when FX first...
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