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“I can’t live…if living is without you.” — Badfinger via Nilsson The crumb bums finally did it! First it was Robin, then Superman, and...
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“I can’t live…if living is without you.” — Badfinger via Nilsson The crumb bums finally did it! First it was Robin, then Superman, and...
One of my favorite Disney classic features is The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, which was released last Tuesday on Blu-ray in a...
What is a childhood without a heavy dose of animation? In this day and age, even grandparents can recall watching animated heroes fighting baddies,...
I wanted The Little Prince to be cool. It was, after all, about a young monarch from a distant world traveling the galaxy in...
Long before Discovery Channel’s Shark Week or Syfy’s Sharknado 2, and shortly thereafter Jaws invented the Blockbuster, a slew of shark related movies continued...
Apparently, card counting is just as frowned upon in Reno as it is in Vegas. So, after a hard weekend of excess and forgettable...
Coming up in the 80s and 90s, every television show I was enamored with pretty much followed the same formula of stalwart heroes warring...
Sometimes it really sucks when people discover you are right about something. What was that I said? Why would it be a bad thing...
When I was first getting into comics way back when, and I mean, really getting into them (long boxes, bags and boards, Wizard Magazine),...
Welcome to the sixteenth installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. Right now I’m typing this in the...
Whenever folks talk about movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s that really struck a chord with them, chances are they’re safe choices. I...
When I was six, Saturday mornings were a ritual set in stone. Like all kids of my era, weekends were a carefully crafted schedule,...
Strolling down the great pantheon of television’s sleuths, we can see the powerful busts of its most notable players like Magnum, Rockford, Fletcher, Kojak,...
I remember as a kid whenever the teacher would go around the room, asking us what we wanted to be when we grew up,...
It’s always easy to celebrate the heroes our movies, TV shows and comics foist upon us. We like people who set themselves a part...
Before the marketing campaign for Guardians of the Galaxy turned Rocket Raccoon into a household name, there was a little show called Bucky O’Hare...
Just when you got over dealing with the 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters, Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, this week marked...
If you were in grade school in the ’60s or ’70s, you’ll probably remember these classroom staples that were shown in millions of classrooms...
Here in 2014, comic fans are pretty used to controversy. Controversy over the death of a character who’s already been killed and resurrected multiple...
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...
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...
Back in the day, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic taught me two things; 1. How a video game could rival a movie...
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...
I may not have been able to see X-Men: Days of Future Past, but that didn’t mean my Memorial Day Weekend was mutant-less. After...