Movies didn’t used to be an event, they used to be a religion. Maybe if you’re young you can understand when I say that movies used to be streaming television, something we all watched and talked about that at its best tested limits and made us think. But movies aren’t like that anymore. Used to […]

Blame the movie industry. If you stop making adult films adults fall out of the habit of attending them. Yes, Hollywood is now for cartoon superheroes. Comedies are too risky, these conglomerates want a guaranteed return. They’re risk averse. Never in the history of the film business has it been less about art. As for […]

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3pCfkoz I thought it was based on the Don Winslow book. When I know I’m going to see a movie I don’t read the reviews. The unfolding experience is what entrances me, which is why I’m so pissed that trailers reveal so much. Then again, I never go to the movies anymore so I […]

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3noLxQh There were two new artists on the “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” soundtrack, Gerard McMahon and the Ravyns. Neither of their songs are on streaming services. You can buy them at iTunes, but you can’t hear them on Spotify, Amazon or Apple, I checked. But I know them by heart. 1982… MTV hadn’t […]