In the mid-1980s, Lee David Zlotoff wrote for Hill Street Blues and later produced Remington Steele; he even directed The Spitfire Grill. But his greatest contribution to modern media was the creation of MacGuyver, the story of a troubleshooter for the Phoenix Foundation (and also an agent of a shadowy branch of the U.S. government). MacGuyver regularly found himself in… [Read More]
BlacKkKlansmen: Is This the Distant Past?
Ron Stallworth is the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department in the 1970s, and while assigned to the intelligence division, he calls the number for the local Klu Klux Klan. Invited to the chapter, Stallworth puts his Jewish co-worker up to impersonating him at the meeting. Before too long, the black man… [Read More]
Time Freak’s Andrew Bowler on Regret, Sci-Fi, and the Shower Effect
Time Freak tells a story as old as time – a geeky, hyper intelligent young man loses his beautiful girlfriend and struggles to find ways to win her back. The difference in Andrew Bowler’s film? The scientific savant uses time travel to try and change the outcome of their breakup, often to hilarious results. Starring… [Read More]
Robin Williams – Comic Genius: A Legacy of Laughs
Good Morning, Vietnam. Dead Poets Society. The Fisher King. Hook. Aladdin. Mrs. Doubtfire. Good Will Hunting. Patch Adams. For a decade in the 1980s and 1990s, Robin Williams was everywhere on screen, delighting adults and children. Doing something that seemed impossible, the often profane comedian transitioned from the role of manic comic to manic family entertainer without ever… [Read More]
Director Paul Becker Dances with Music, Race, & Lou Gossett Jr.
Paul Becker is a choreographer, but don’t assume that means he is solely involved in putting dancers through their paces. Involved in choreographing scenes on television (Riverdale, Once Upon a Time) and films (Suckerpunch, Deadpool, Ralph Breaks the Internet), Becker has now moved forward with a career directing films. With his debut, Breaking Brooklyn, Becker… [Read More]
The Meg: Building a Bigger Shark
Audiences have fascinations with films about sharks. Whether it’s Jaws, The Shallows, or Sharknado, the track record is off the charts. But I am not one of those people who shares the fascination because I really like the ocean! So, with a mix of trepidation and fear, overcome by my Jason Statham fandom, I watched The Meg, which was a… [Read More]
The Spy Who Loved Me: Flipping the Script
In every spy move since, well, ever, dashing men have run through scenes, avoiding bullets and bedding buxom beauties. In the genre-tilting spy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me, Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon play Audrey Stockton and her best friend/roommate, Morgan Freeman, who inadvertently become drawn in to a plot where the free world is… [Read More]
Incredibles 2: The Second Best Sequel of All Time
Fourteen years ago, Brad Bird traded his success with The Iron Giant into a big-time spin with Pixar/Disney in The Incredibles, but since Ratatouille, Bird has been better known for live-action direction of hits like Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Tomorrowland. So what could move Bird out of an advising role to reveal the Incredible family in a sequel? Why… [Read More]
Giveaway: Win a Free Copy of Mile 22!
In Mile 22, CIA operative James Silva leads a small but lethal paramilitary team on an urgent and dangerous mission. They must transport a foreign intelligence asset from an American embassy in Southeast Asia to an airfield for extraction — a distance of twenty-two miles. Silva and the soldiers soon find themselves in a race against time… [Read More]
Giveaway: Win a Free Copy of Blackkklansman!
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero in Blackkklansman. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate… [Read More]
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