There was a time when watching a movie at home required considerably more effort than clicking an app and spending twenty minutes scrolling through thumbnails before deciding there was somehow nothing to watch. In the early 1980s, the home video market exploded. For the first time, people could rent a...
Published in 1953, Paycheck dares to ask the question, how much of your life would you sacrifice for money? It reminds me of Johnny Mnemonic, the Johnny Depp film/William Gibson short story, where people carry sensitive information for corporations in their brain, but lose their memories as a result. In...
On Black Friday in 2004, I purchased a cheap MiniDV camcorder with the intention of filming a short film and finally beginning my filmmaking career. Over the next three weeks, I wrote a script, bought stuff to record audio, built my own steady cam, and planned for a quick shoot...
Around a decade ago, I worked on a screenplay about two guys who used to work at a video store. The story was a way for me to work through some of my own unresolved feelings of a life that didn't live up to my own expectations. Of course, through...
This was a wonderful story to read on a Sunday morning. As usual, Darrin kills it with a though provoking piece. The Guy at the Wawa
A few weeks ago, I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which sent me down a Blade Runner rabbit hole for a few days. Having always really enjoyed the various adaptations of PKD's stories, I decided it was time to sit down and read more of them and maybe...
I'm a huge John Carpenter fan. I mean, Halloween pretty much created my horror fandom at a young age, and for that I'll be forever grateful. I had a blast exploring his movies through my teen years, and revisiting them over and over again. Some have aged well, The Thing,...
Over the years, I've bought a lot of tech. Some good, some bad, but not a whole lot that I've been crazy about. I've spent countless days researching, pouring over reviews, videos, and the like only to buy a piece of equipment that ultimately ends up collecting dust (I'm looking...
Last year, I began a journey of watching Kung Fu, the 70's television show starring David Carradine. I'm not a huge fan of binge watching, especially a show like this that is so slow, but I'm working my way towards the end of the series and it's left me wanting...
Seventy-six years ago, Ray Bradbury wrote a short story titled There Will Come Soft Rains in Collier’s Weekly. It’s a quick read and is worth your time. What makes the story particularly special today is that it takes place on the actual date of August 4, 2026. You can read...
Money's Too Tight to Mention{{yt:https://youtu.be/DrUB0g8Vjgg}} I ran across this song the other day while looking for Simply Red's Holding Back the Years and found it quite suitable for today's world. Total Recall 2070I recently began watching Total Recall 2070 on YouTube. The show was only given a DVD release and...
Well... I picked two movies that shared a few things in common, mainly guys who try to make women into exactly what they want and end up regretting it. Neither movie was amazing, but both kept me interested and I didn't once feel the need to hit the fast-forward button....
When I look back at my favorite video game experiences, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 ranks up there with the best of them. Released on November 13th, 2012, Black Ops 2 was the eleventh game in the Call of Duty franchise. Sure, the single player has some sort of...
A few days ago, I found myself feeling nostalgic for a certain moment in my blogging history. A moment when everything seemed to really mesh. Thankfully, I have all of my blogs backed up as .epubs from 2020-current, so I opened up to the first entry in 2020 which started...
Throughout my life, I've ran across three movies that I just could not understand the appeal of: 1. The Big Lebowski 2. The Lord of the Rings Franchise 3. Blade Runner Now, normally it wouldn't be a big deal if I didn't like a movie, but all three of these...