That hits on my big fears for travel. Being stuck in the middle of no where with something wrong with my car they can’t fix easy. And having to talk to people about it who know I have no idea how all that works.

This is far less interesting than the others but still gotta share. 2002. I’m living in Charleston, SC. Bubba Ho-Tep is set to be released. Myself and two friends D and E are incredibly excited. We’re cult movie fans and the new film from Don Coscarelli starring Bruce Campbell as aging Elvis fighting a mummy dressed…

My dad has a tendency to wing it and not find a hotel ahead of time. Many youth trips and vacations (he is a runner/triathlete so many trips to his races) with long drives with No Vacancy signs. It’s no wonder I overplan my trips as an adult.

For four years in the 90's, my family would go a KOA campground in Cherokee, NC for a week. Four years of hiking/biking the same trails, going to the same restaurants, doing the same things. It was fun, I admit - but after a few years it gets annoying. My dad was really upset when my mom, brother and I told him…

Re Team Tiara Story (as these get all mixed up)

In high school, I was a Boy Scout. I was a Scout all my life, from Cub at age 6 until I graduated high school in 2000. So that’s not the issue, while 12 years of camping trips have often led to badly planned and executed excursions. Those and my troop treating the whole thing in a different tone than many. My…

As a graduated Film Major (not in production, but academic), I can attest to this. So many of my classmates were so up their butt with pretentious films if they watched anything at all. Dudes, it’s okay to like Star Wars; it’s not betraying your love of -=cinema=-. One of my teachers was a programmer for SIFF and she…

So... Disney?

They needed the raiders to see the villagers defend themselves.

I do like T3, but damn the humor really sinks so much of it. Bad one liners, throwbacks. Add in Arhhhnold forced to be an exposition-bot. He seemed like he was doing a parody of himself. I saw and loved the hell out of the new one. Glad it did have a few throwbacks but none were groaners and they generally made a…

This movie will make no box office juice (strained pun but still). The trailer plays like a parody with the jokes removed. 

In 2006, I got a degree in Criminal Justice (bad choice, I’m better now) and was looking for a job in the field. One interviewer I had told me to my face “we don’t like you college educated kids coming into our department telling us what to do” You can guess I didn’t get hired. Who did? A guy I worked with at Papa…

He was an awesome, fun, and friendly man. Did a ton on conventions and he gave every fan love. My story: Let me tell ya a story about the first convention I met Sid. Thursday night before Fangoria Weekend of Horror 2004. A bunch of us from the fangoria message boards are in the lobby hanging. Bill Mosely comes by and…

The biggest issue with the movie comes in just wasting the idea. In my group after the screening, we talked about the possibilities that are touched on in the movie itself of where it can go. But if they had an interesting idea, it was pushed to the side for boilerplate thriller.
I have a full review at City of Geek…

Well, it is. Both Paddington movies were all quality (too bad box office in the states was just ok), charming, positive, and just plain fun. They could have easily been cheap cash grabs but it’s obvious how much work went in to make them great films on their own right. I especially love how the villains for either -…

At the Regal I worked at, many people realized the loopholes very quickly. Movie you want isn’t available or you want to go later? Get it now. Wait. Exchange it. So we started writing “MP” on MoviePass tickets to cut down on it. If they used the kiosk we couldn’t check outside of asking to see the credit card but it…

They visited the set of Tourist Trap, but luckily Chuck Conners was off getting his skin-peeling knives sharpened out of town.

He played antagonist in Sam Raimi’s The Gift. Been too long, but I recall he was solid. 

RE: John Cusack. Rose City about 3 or 4 years go (so some of my details may be off, as that’s what memory does). Q/A is going fine, mostly. John obviously doesn’t want to really be there but Joan is lovely. Guy comes up in a nice 3 piece suit and in a very purposefly eloquent Old Hollywood accent - sounding fake but…

“ 4) asking some inane question that has been answered a bunch of times”  This. Goddamn this one annoys me more than anything else. Peter Mayhew (RIP) at Emerald City a few years ago... half the people asked him to do the roar. in the QA he said he didn’t do it in the movie and the moderator literally started the QA…