A Not-So-Special Appreciation of the Vintage Holiday Special
Having passed 38 winters, and commencing my 39th, one of the hardest parts about aging is that my v...
A Slightly Obsessed Halloween Special!
Yet another Halloween season is fast upon us, the rotting trees, mournful processions, and hangman's posts infusing the d...
She Did The Mash, She Did The Monster Mash...
It was a long week at summer camp. As a camp counselor I had to deal with teen hormones, falls from bunk beds and...
A “Just For The Hell Of It”, Slightly Obsessed Halloween Special!
A Friendly Word Of Warning:
The following ill-conceived venture dates back 5 or 6 year...
An Anthology of the Fab Four on the Silver Screen
There are only three artistic entities of which I am I die-hard, life-long fan--all of whom arguably reached ...
A Home Video Vacation With 14 Classics Of Japanese Cinema
As an old stick-in-the-mud once observed: “I've been enough places and seen enough things to know that...
A Few Questions After Watching STRANGER THINGS...(SPOILERS)
Stop what you are doing and watch the Netflix Original Series Stranger Things. Seriously call in si...
Three Lost Girls In Poetic Peril
In connection with ZekeFilm's early summer “fairy tale” theme – and more particularly with this month's Film Admissions article...
I grew up in the 80’s. I was almost 10 when Ferris Bueller’s Day Off hit the big screens. 30 years later as an almost 40 year old I’m still in love with Fer...
Hollywood's Everyman From America's Heartland
The summer after I graduated from UW-Madison I took a temp position with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Best jo...