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With so many choices of streaming entertainment, it’s not unusual to spend hours deciding on what to watch. Here are four films currently available...
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With so many choices of streaming entertainment, it’s not unusual to spend hours deciding on what to watch. Here are four films currently available...
For some, Halloween is a state of mind, not just a kiddie holiday on the last day of October. And thanks to a handful...
Gambling and casinos in all of their different forms are prominent in many action and drama movies in Hollywood. However, some gambling scenes are...
The most influential science fiction film of 1977 was obviously Star Wars, and you can check out my December 2015 FOG! column to read...
The term “festival goggles” refers to the heightened reaction that a movie can receive when seen by viewers surrounded by the stars and filmmakers...
Gambling hasn’t always been as a broad spectrum topic as it is today. This may be due to the ever-changing state laws and the...
It all starts with P.G. WODEHOUSE—although I didn’t find him ‘til much later—but the three guys here are, to varying degrees, his spiritual sons,...
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this 44th season of Saturday Night Live hasn’t been all that good. Daring talk,...
It seems like it should be a pretty niche genre on the surface. After all, who outside of the industry can relate to the...
Blackjack is an incredibly popular game, enjoyed by people of all ages and backgrounds and it’s very easy to learn. Nonetheless, it’s still exciting;...
There are only so many themes that one can come up with when designing a casino slot. The classic themes of fruits, bars and...
2018 was a fantastic year for games with titles like Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, and Fortnite taking the world by storm....
Forgive an old man for a slipping memory. Here’s an addendum, and not necessarily the last such, to the lists that preceded it… ...
For years, folks have been searching for the perfect unconventional Christmas movie. Something besides the super sweet holiday movies of Hallmark or the conventional...
This time I’m covering other genres, the outliers, and the oops, I slipped on this one or that one. I’m sure there are authors...
H.P. Lovecraft is often compared with Edgar Allan Poe: his works are inconsistent, overwrought, and redundant (which we tolerate) but also twisted, imaginative, and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
In my previous two columns (Read Part 1 / Read Part 2), I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The...
It wasn’t technically an exorcism, what they did to Clare. When the reverend and his son ripped her demon from her, they called it...
Nothing can quite compare to a casino-themed film. The thrill of the character working to win big at their game will never fail to...
There’s a new prison break drama in cinemas and On Demand called Papillon, starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek. Most casual moviegoers would be...
“I’M NOT AN ACTOR, I’M A MOVIE STAR!” So ranted Alan Swann played with hilarious deftness by the legendary Peter O’Toole in the 1982...