Tag: year-end-2016
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The Truman Show: Prescient and Hopeful
When The Truman Show came out in 1998, “reality TV” as we know it today was just barely a thing. MTV had aired the first season of The Real World in 1992, the original Dutch version of Big Brother hit the airwaves in 1997. The “king” of all reality shows, Survivor, wouldn’t air until two years later, in 2000. In…
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Hair: You Know Some of the Songs and None of the Plot
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a bit of a fan of the classic American Musical. That cuts off around the mid-60s, a little after West Side Story. Anything after that I likely haven’t had a lot of exposure to (which is one of the oversights I’m trying to fix lately). The stage version of Hair…
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Transformers: The Movie – Accidental Impact
Two of the main cartoons, comic book series, and toy lines of my childhood were G.I. Joe and Transformers. I started the G.I. Joe comic with issue #6 and Transformers with “Issue 1 of a 4-issue limited series” (which then ran for 80 issues). When Transformers: The Movie hit screens in 1986, I was excited. I saw it and I loved…
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Wet Hot American Summer: Ridiculous in all the Right Ways
I missed catching Wet, Hot, American Summer when it first came out back in 2001. It wasn’t until 2015, when Netflix released the “prequel” series, that I finally got around to watching it. That time delay may have made it even funnier than it would have been 14 years earlier. The Plot The film follows the…
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Many Updates On the Way
So, last year, for the final 100 days of 2015, I took on an ambitious project. I decided I was going to do a vlog a day. That… was a bad idea. I did it, but, man, was it a ridiculous amount of work. This year, I’m going to try something a little less labor…