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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,...
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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,...
Just a little over 30 years ago, hip-hop and rap started to make a true cultural impact on movies. Wild Style, Krush Groove, and...
We’ve had a couple weeks since wishing Dick Clark was still around to ring in the New Year. But even with all that time,...
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...
As we prepare for the yearly procession of 25th anniversary celebrants in 2014, I’m reminded of the dark cloud that loomed over the cinematic...
There was a period in comics when virtually anything that was successful in movies or on television got their own series. Like Welcome Back,...
Years ago, I declared New York Magazine to be better than the big-apple periodical institution The New Yorker, but now it looks like they’ve been forced to...
The upcoming Disney sanctioned based-on-a-true-story movie SAVING MR. BANKS is a respectable little movie telling the somewhat interesting saga of bringing Mary Poppins to screen....
Review by Todd Sokolove In a 1997 BBC documentary about Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Paul McCartney called the man a “fifth Beatle, if there...
No disrespect to the great Michael Jackson song, not to mention video for, Thriller. It’s just, if I have to hear Thriller as an interstitial...
Ask anyone who was a kid in the 70s, and they’ll recount being scared by horror movies on television. What’s interesting is that the...
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...
Wow. It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 4 years since I last wrote something that appeared in this space. So much has...
If you grew up in the Seventies, there wasn’t much difference between corporate mascots and entertainment. Cereal, in particular, was home to dozens of...
I gave up years ago feeling 90s nostalgia was way too early for me to handle. I accept that the 90s are the new...
Review by Todd Sokolove First of all, I’m happy to report that the IMAX 3D restoration of THE WIZARD OF OZ works. Actually, it...
It doesn’t matter what generation you fit into on the pop culture chart, even if you’ve reached the status of “Can’t teach an old...
Here at FOG! HQ lots of cool stuff comes in, giving us the opportunity to check out some merchandise, that to be completely honest,...
The late, great Elmore Leonard’s behind the tales turned into these selects currently available to INSTANT WATCH on Netflix… FREAKY DEAKY Directed by Charles...
For years I have been obsessed with knock off, unlicensed merchandise—famous brands, or characters, that are designed and sold with a seemingly complete disregard...
I hate to sound like a grumpy old fan, but the upcoming Disney animated feature Planes is exactly what’s wrong with the current box office....
Last week, Twentieth Century Fox made the better-late-than-never announcement they’re venturing into the theme park business to exploit their owned film and television properties....
It was a reunion I had never expected to see last night when Jesse Katsopolis, lead singer of Hot Daddy and the Monkey Puppets...
In the mid-Fifties, a former WWII pilot and post-war British accountant named Edward Craven Walker was at a local English country pub called Queen’s...