In this day and age of MySpace, YouTube, and iPod commercials pimping the latest track it’s pretty rare to hear new music on the radio that I get too excited about…until three weeks ago when I was driving home from work and turned to Hot 99.5 with this kick ass song playing. It was “I […]
MOVIE NEWS: The Amazing Stan Winston Dead
It’s been a weird couple of Days first Tim Russert on Friday who was a giant in journalism died. I never met him, but did admire him. But one of the few movie heroes that I have – Stan Winston is dead. I first read about it on Aint It Cool News who reported the […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Incredible Hulk: This Time Hulk Smash! By Sheldon Wiebe
Ang Lee’s Hulk, the A Beautiful Mind take, left fans cold, so now we have Louis Leterrier’s “HULK SMASH!” version – and it does indeed rock the house. The script – solely credited to Zak Penn [suggesting that the parts star Edward Norton worked on were edited out] – gives us all kinds of neat […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Happening: Almost… by Sheldon Wiebe
Any great mystery, espionage or horror movie lives or dies on its writer and director combining to provide suspense – the ominous shadow here, the piercing music sting there – while creating characters we can relate to and placing them in situations that leave them more and more unable to cope, or adapt, until some […]
BURN NOTICE INTERVIEW: Jeffrey Donovan, the man who doesn’t Sweat, sits down with Michelle!
So here’s the thing, a few weeks ago USA Network contacted me out of the blue and said hey, would you like to come down to Miami for a little Junket for Burn Notice. I was like hells yeah – even though I had no idea what Burn Notice was. But I’m always up for […]
TELEVISION REVIEW: Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound, wows Michelle!
Starz Inside has quickly become one of my favorite series of television documentaries. If you are a fan of Pop Culture, this series is made for you. In the last few months they took us inside Pixar Animation, gave us an in-depth look at the creators of Animation, showed us men behind some of our […]
MOVIE NEWS: Leonardo DiCaprio Plays Games and looks at Akira
Leonardo DiCaprio loves the biopic. He’s been Howard Hughes, a 60’s scam artist, and a turn of the century Irish Gangster, who is left for him to play? How about the inventor of Pong and the modern day $10 billion dollar video game industry – Nolan Bushnell. A man who is not only known for […]
BURN NOTICE: Things I learned at the Burn Notice Junket Pt. 1
Considering it was a one day junket with a nice dinner, I learned a lot during my weekend visit to the Miami Set of USA Network’s hit new show – Burn Notice. This trip came out of my own pocket so don’t worry about me being bought off. Although I am for sale and still […]
EM EXCLUSIVE: V The Second Generation finally reviewed by Michelle!
When people ask me what my top 10 favorite films of all time are, I generally ignore the question because it only gives people a chance to try and come across as pretentious. Oh, they’ll say the usual, “The Godfather,” “Citizen Cane,” “Psycho,” “Gone With the Wind,” etc. Personally, I despise “Citizen Cane,” and think […]
THE TELLYBOX: It’s Reality, but not as we know it!
As Big Brother launches yet again on British TV, with another group of talentless wannabees (yawn), and I’d Do Anything has found “the people’s Nancy” (yay! for the wonderful Jodie Prenger!), we only have The Apprentice in the frame as worth watching for a fascinating slice of reality TV life. The Apprentice sees 16 would-be […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Kung Fu Panda: Panda Power? By Sheldon Wiebe
Pandas are perceived as being laid back, relaxed and just enjoying munching on bamboo shoots. Kinda like your fat, old uncle Kenny – only bigger and with fur. Casting a panda as a kung fu master is one of those contradictory images that just automatically provoke smiles and chuckles – if not hysterical laughter. Which […]