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In 1968, 19 year old Paul Cohen was sent to prison for “disturbing the peace.” The police didn’t like the fact that he was...
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In 1968, 19 year old Paul Cohen was sent to prison for “disturbing the peace.” The police didn’t like the fact that he was...
On this day in 1941, one of the most important figures in rock and roll history was born. Bob Dylan is as ubiquitous as...
A couple of weeks ago, one of my greatest fears finally came true: I was in a car wreck that totaled my beloved Nissan...
Two disasters in one week. One of them not too far from my home. (West, Texas is only a couple of hours up I-35...
On April 4th, the world lost pretty much the last of the classic writers of the original generation of film criticism. Roger Ebert wasn’t...
As we all know, South By Southwest started off as a music festival, only adding the film nearly 10 years after they started. So,...
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!! That was the cry of the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. It’s also been the cry of anyone foreseeing...
My home state has been through a lot over the last 200 years. This Saturday, March 2nd, is Texas Independence Day. That’s the day...
Valentine’s Day is a fraud. There. I said it. Ok, it’s not a very controversial position. Really, only sorority girls and Hallmark employees like...
Now that the Oscar nominees have been announced, I can tell you how wrong they are. Here are my five favorite movies of 2012....
By Mark Wensel The Sandwich Nazi Directed by Lewis Bennett Produced by Benjamin Taft, Calum MacLeod, Lewis Bennett Salam Kahil loves to talk about his...
Ok. Fine. I’ll do it. Here ’tis. My five favorite movies of 2012. But I’m gonna do this differently. This is the first in...
So the year begins! I’m not one to go with trends, so I’m not doing a “Best of 2012” list just yet…mainly because I...
Every year at Butt Numb-a-Thon, Harry Knowles celebrates his birthday by gathering around 200 of his closest friends and a few lucky hangers-on and...
Samurai films have been a staple of action cinema pretty much since the birth of the art form. Akira Kurosawa made a career and...
There’s one genre of horror that can leave me quivering on the floor in a gelatinous mass. If done right, it will make me...
I love Halloween basically for one reason. It’s not the costumes, which put more pressure on me than Christmas ever could. No, it’s the...
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it 100 more times: I love genre films. Horror, sci-fi, thriller, weird…anything that a lot...
This is totally going to sound like a “woe-is-me” article, but I’m going to do it anyway. For seven years, I was a volunteer...
Full disclosure here: Steven Spielberg is my favorite director. Ever. Sure, there’s Welles and Hitchcock and Ford and Peckinpah and even Woo. But nothing...
It’s that time of year again, kids. Yes, I know, you don’t wanna. Butchya hafta! Time to go back to school! But it doesn’t...
Everybody loves an amusement park, right? All of the rides and shows and, especially, the roller coasters. On August 3, 1946, the first themed...
July 20, 1971. A day that will live in the hearts and minds of music fans forever. That, dear friends, is the day that...
A couple of day sago, the US celebrated its independence with hot dogs, beer and fireworks (where legal). A little over 200 years ago,...