Category Archives: Movies / TV

Say What?

The rapper Kanye West disrupted the MTV video acceptance speech of country siren Taylor Swift with an impromptu shout-out to Beyonce. Glass in hand Kanye West basically said that Beyonce’s video deserved the win. The singer looked embarrassed and surprised by the outburst. The public’s reaction was harsh and the soon the Kanye West – […]

PUBLIC ENEMIES – the movie

The legend of John Dillinger’s penis has grown through the decades following his assassination at the hands of the FBI and every year the Smithsonian receives hundreds of requests for information about the bank robber’s supposedly 22-inch crank. Museum curators deny the existence of such a unique curio, yet the myth persists in the imagination […]

Filming THE LAST QUAALUDES ON EARTH

Several years ago my doctor and I were cleaning out the medicine cabinets of his deceased father’s office. It was in his parents’ old house. where his old man had spent over 40 years caring for thousands of Staten Islanders. We were surprised to find three small boxes of Quaaludes. Their expiration date was 1979. […]

Poor Grasshopper

Most Americans’ introduction to eastern thought was via the TV show KUNG FU starring David Carradine. The lanky actor played a Eurasian Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine wandering the Old West. Wisdom was dispensed through flashbacks to the young man’s studies with his tutor, Master Po. Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear? […]

DEAD SNOW movie

A friend of mine sent a trailer for a Swedish movie. DEAD SNOW. This horror film is a remake of the classic EVIL DEAD set in the snowy forests of the north. Teenagers on a holiday discover treasure. It is guarded by zombie Nazis. Blood and guts. My friend thought it was great. Beer, teens, […]