Damon Wayans was a cool guy – very professional yet funny and loose at the same time. It was a pleasure to speak and with him and I would h...

Hey I was the radio again. I love radio. Always have since I was a mere boy and beardless youth. While I love writing and publishing, there ...

Memorial Day musing... Yeah, this will undoubtedly tick off a few folks who will first tell me I don't have the right to feel this way b...

(That's me pointing my finger at another newspaper guy while on a panel at Western New England College) Well, today is my birthday...the...

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Documentaries dominate this week's DVD column. Secrets of the Dead: Dogfight over Guadalcanal This PBS series re-examines historical eve...

Hey, here's the cover of my book by the uber-talented artist (not the race car driver) Mark Martin. I'm quite excited. The good folk...

I meant to put this up here weeks ago, but it slipped my mind. "Grindhouse" was a great experience and was an intersection of two ...

Ah, joooooooooooooooooy! There are so few films more blissfully complete in their wrongness as "From Here it Came." If you thought...

Here's a press release I received today. Interesting food for thought. I'll be curious to see how far this gets in the corporate ow...

Hey, new stuff over at Animation Review! *** One of my great pleasures in life is to look through a box of my stuff at home and discover th...

Here's a couple of scans from the entertainment listings from the Springfield MA, daily from the late 1930s. I can't quite imagine...

I look forward to spring. I enjoy seeing the shoots of plants in the garden pop up. I enjoy the warmer temperatures. I like being awakened b...

Documentaries dominate this week's DVD review column. Fired! One might argue that when Woody Allen fired actress Annabelle Gurwitch from...

Western Massachusetts is an area rightly proud of its many colleges, so undoubtedly the tragedy at Virginia Tech has resonated pretty deeply...

Here's part three of the Kong article. Sorry this took so long, but this week has been a grinder...not a sandwich.

We saw Dom Irrera last night and I laughed so hard at times that no sound came out of my mouth! Although at time stunningly profane, Irrera...

Here's part two of the Kong article.

Something for the big monster fans Here is the first of three posts of an article from a 1933 Popular Science story on how the sound effect...

Remember when comic books used to be "funny books?" No, well that's because if you're not a middle-age geezer like me, yo...