Primarily Entertainment

July 3, 2014

Big Screen to the Small Screen: five movies that should be TV shows

I have noticed lately that a lot of new TV shows seem to be based on movies. I am not seeing the right ones. Dracula, I know it was book first but this is America who reads, came and went, I am hearing a lot of good stuff about Hannibal, and how the hell is…

July 2, 2014

Small screen to big screen: five TV shows that should be movies

As I have been writing this blog over the last few weeks I keep coming back to my childhood. I am now wondering why there aren’t more remakes of classic TV shows into movies. I know they have been hit or miss with Dukes of Hazard and Starsky and Hutch not taking the source material…

June 30, 2014

Remember fun?

When televisions get so dark and serious? Where did the fun go? Most of what we see on television these days is dark gritty crime shows. There is no fun left anymore. Everything has these long through stories if you missed it you are lost. We lost the fun action drama. All I want to…

June 29, 2014

Critical Update!

Have you ever gone back and watched a movie you loved as child or when you were younger to only find out it just doesn’t have the umph it once had? My family does movie night every Saturday and each person choses a movie for their week. I have noticed during my weeks the movies…

June 27, 2014

Here I Come to save the day!

They are the reason we tune in. The hero is the reason we watch. The hero has been the central figure since…well the dawn of time. The old serials in the movies use to draw us back next week to see how he survived that ordeal. This is something TV does very well. Here are…

June 26, 2014

It’ Good To Be Bad

I got to tell you as a kid I always did root for the good guys, however the bad guys seem to have it all. I mean they really always had the cooler stuff, better cars or space ships, better houses and of course hotter chicks, alas I still rooted for the good guys. Although…

June 25, 2014

The Modern Man

My generation is nothing but a generation of man boys; we never grew up. All you have to do is look at how we spend our leisure time. We sit around still playing video games, reading comic books, and watching TV. I know some of you have grown up but the vast majority of us…

June 23, 2014

An Apple a Day…Top Five Teachers on Television

We all have had at least one teacher we remember. The one who stood out above all of the others. Since I transitioned to the other side of the desk I noticed how my list has changed for many but there some that seem to stay as stand outs in my life, and who I…

June 21, 2014

Hey Buddy Can You Spare Quarter? Top five arcade games.

I remember being in the third grade and the convenience store at the end of my block closed. No big deal some other store would open there and it did. This was odd though. It was part convenience store and part game arcade. This was about 1980 or so, so the arcade part amounted to…

June 20, 2014

So bad they are great! Five terrible movies I love!

Everybody has their own taste in film. We all seem to like only “good” movies, but that is really a subjective term. I personally love good movies I also have a special place in my heart for the really bad movies too. Bad movies completely baffle me because they have to go through the same…