Category: Entertainment
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Hey Geoff! Can You Name 6 Underrated ’80s Movies?
Glad you asked, Voice Inside My Head…although, considering your source, shouldn’t you technically be able to see my answers? Just saying. Every decade produces its fair share of cinematic treasure, and the ’80s is no different. I mean, even if the decade had given us nothing but dreck beyond Back To The Future, it’s still…
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’80s One-Hit Wonders? Not So Fast
I love ’80s music, and have since at least 1980. While the calendar may read 2014, my musical sensibilities have never really progressed beyond the Decade of Decadence. I mean, I once went to a Simple Minds concert…in 1996. You can have your Katy Perry; I’ll take Steve Perry any day. Have fun with Maroon 5…
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(A Few Of) The Most Insufferable Things in Hollywood
To report every instance of idiocy, ineptitude and blowhardiness in Hollywood would take a team of several thousand bloggers working 20-hour days. This is not news. The group assigned to the Kardashians would break the Internet alone with its output. Nevertheless, as a world-class cynic, I would be remiss if I did not point out the most egregious offenders to…
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Amazing But True: These People Have Never Hosted SNL
As the 456th season of Saturday Night Live winds down, I’m taking stock of where the show is at. No, I’m not one of those dinosaurs that laments how far the show has fallen from its “heyday” of the original cast (check the tape, folks – it was just as hit-or-miss then as it has been in…
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Remake These Movies (?)
You don’t have to be a cinephile to realize that Hollywood has run out of ideas — at least the original ones. Studios churn out the remakes with reckless abandon these days- sorry, actually, their versions are reimagined. That’s fancy talk for taking the barest plot outlines, characters and, most importantly, the title and updating them for…
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Completely Odious Hollywood Phenomena, Part I
Everybody can see that Michael Cera plays virtually the same character in every movie, right? He brings the same nebbish, quirky persona to Juno, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Year One and, undoubtedly, whatever his next release is. Cera is by no means the only offender (read: Al Pacino, Will Smith, Matthew McConaughey) but, while his peers may rely…
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Why “Friends” Still Seems Fresh
Saying that network television has been circling the drain for awhile is a bit like calling sports-related concussion data mildly unsettling. The Big Four as currently constituted are nothing more than a mishmash of reality shows, crime procedurals, tepid comedies, talent shows and – my personal favorite – talent show results episodes. Recently, I’ve caught a few…
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A Post About Movie Posters
Take a look at any movie poster from the early ’80s or ’70s and one thing stands out- they’re incredibly wordy. Whereas nowadays there’s just a short tagline, back then they threw paragraphs on there. Seriously, sometimes it looks like they stapled the entire script to the poster. I understand that we all have the…
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Wasn’t The Afterschool Special Special?
There are many relics from yesteryear that I (and in many cases, only I) look upon with fondness. The USFL. Music videos on MTV. Using my phone as, well, a phone. Whatever became of of the Afterschool Special? Growing up is hard, but this anthology of angst set us straight on the whatnots of adolescence, serving up…
Geoff Wondering 