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Welcome to the thirteenth installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. About five years ago, I was on...
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Welcome to the thirteenth installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. About five years ago, I was on...
There were a LOT of great action flicks made in the 80s. With Schwarzenegger, Gibson, Stallone and Weaver making fun movie after fun movie,...
Joe Dante’s Gremlins turned 30 this past Sunday, and as much as that makes me feel ancient, at least at the age of 42...
Welcome to the twelfth installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. After parking my Bugatti, I stride through...
Welcome to the eleventh installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. It’s a shame that kids these days...
“By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.” –Ray Kurzweil “The next major explosion is going to be when genetics...
Welcome to the eighth installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. DABNEY COLEMAN! Anyone born after 1988 won’t...
After Star Wars and Close Encounters of The Third Kind did so much to add optimism and triumph to science fiction film, along came...
Welcome to the latest installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. Other than me shoving my undeserved opinion...
Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the most famous detention in film history. Saturday, March 24, 1984. Dear Mr. Vernon…we accept the fact that...
Welcome to the latest installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. There are two things in this world...
Welcome to the latest installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. I’m sorry to say this, dear reader,...
On the eve of the RoboCop remake, I went back to the original, now available in an Unrated Director’s cut on Blu-ray, remastered with 4K...
So there I was, sitting across the table from Vladimir Putin at the underground Baccarat competition during the Sochi Games. You see, this week...
Welcome to the second installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. I’m not going to lie to you,...
Welcome to the first installment of Flashback to the Present and I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. First, a little background: I’m in...
Following a high school career interviewing musicians for Rolling Stone magazine, writer Cameron Crowe spent a year undercover as a student at Clairemont High...
Here we are only a few weeks into the new television season and shows are already being cancelled. But there’s certainly nothing new to...
It’s been a long and crazy week at FOG! HQ, so today we’re playing catch up and figured you could use a day off,...
There are times here at Mystery Box H.Q. when I set out to write about a subject that I feel is so undeniably a...
There were many crimes committed in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, despite the nice 3D. And yes, while we all expected the movie to be stupid,...
We humans are a narcissistic lot. There is nothing we like better than to think that we are the end all be all of...
For at least 15 years now I’ve been buying the new Depeche Mode album in hope of some great reward. Sorry for the pun,...
Nothing screamed “event” more on television during the early Eighties than a mini-series. Today they’ve pretty much disappeared, but back then before Tivo or...