Classics Review: Funny Girl

In 1964, a Broadway musical called, “Funny Girl” opened to the public. The story’s bases on the life and career of Fanny Brice. A Jewish-American comedian and singer gains fame and develops a relationship with a gambler. Barbra Streisand played Fanny in the Broadway version prior to a film adaptation gaining more recognition. She was […]

Earth Girls Are Easy

In 1984, singer/writer/comedian, Julie Brown (Minerva Mink from Animaniacs) released an Extended Play (EP for short) featuring five songs titled, “Goddess in Progress.” A parody of stereotypical valley girls and hit songs by Madonna, Cindi Lauper & Tiffany. Four Years Later, Julie co-wrote a script based on the EP, but with a trio of aliens […]

Flashback Review: Forrest Gump

In 1986, Winston Groom published a novel titled, Forrest Gump.” Set in the ’50s to early ’80s, it’s about a guy named, Forrest. He has a low IQ who goes on adventures, meets historical figures, becomes rich, enlists in the Vietnam War, inadvertently inspires others to come up with innovative ideas and tries to win […]

Classics Review: How the West Was Won

Epic films in the 1960s were a trend throughout the entire decade. Notable ones from 1960-1969 such as “Spartacus,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World,” “My Fair Lady,” “Doctor Zhivago,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “The Dirty Dozen,” “Once Upon a Time in the West” & “The Wild Bunch.” […]

X-Men: First Class

After “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” became a critical flop, 20th Century Fox (pre-Disney purchase) cancelled plans to develop “X-Men Origins: Magneto” in favor of a prequel titled, “X-Men: First Class” focusing on the X-Men’s early years, the friendship between Charles Xavier/Professor X & Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto and their partnership while squaring off against Sebastian Shaw. A mutant […]

The Watchers

Prior to a film adaptation, author, A.M. Shine published a book titled, “The Watchers.” It’s about an American immigrant living in Ireland named, Mina. She’s sent by her manager to deliver a parrot to a zoo. As she travels to her destination, her car breaks down. Trapped in the middle of a forest, something sinister […]