Welcome to the first Friday of the academic calendar year with no college football nor basketball to look forward to. Action does not return to the gridiron for nearly five grueling months. This week marks the single longest stretch sans college basketball of the entire trip around the sun. But all is not lost, readers…
Perhaps you have seen advertisements for YouTube's exclusive series Cobra Kai, a follow-up to the 1984 film Karate Kid. Now, I have railed previously in this space against Hollywood's creatively empty reliance on reboots and adaptations, but I will admit Cobra Kai piqued my interest. Comedic spins on old properties produced hilarious results with 2004's…
Kyrie Irving's alter ego, Uncle Drew, hits the big screen this June. The film arrives in theaters as summer blockbuster season is in full swing, suggesting Lions Gate has faith in the big-screen debut for the Celtics guard. The June 29 premier is no accident, either. The NBA Finals will have just ended, and you…
CBS plans to reboot Murphy Brown, a popular television series that began its initial run 30 years ago and ended 20 years ago. This decision follows NBC relaunching Will & Grace, Netflix picking up the misadventures of the Tanners on Fuller House, the Disney Channel introducing Girl Meets World and ABC planning a Roseanne reboot…
If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…
If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…
If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…
If you’re like me, one of the things you appreciate the most about the holiday season is incessantly watching Christmas movies. From the moment the dishes are cleared on Thanksgiving night through Christmas Eve, it’s All Christmas Everything up in here, as far as I’m concerned. From the old school, stop-motion classics such as “Jack…
Christmas cinema is an exercise in contrasts. The good is often excellent, with classics such as A Christmas Story, It's A Wonderful Life and Christmas Vacation. But the bad? Whew, buddy, is the bad ever bad. Were I ever to compile a definitive list of the worst films ever -- and that might be a…
Social unrest provided a cornerstone in the various boom periods for horror cinema. For example, the genre's Golden Age in the first half of the 1930s coincided with the worsening of the Great Depression. Hollywood's Pre-Code era and the genuine anxiety of the time produced classics like Freaks, and the various Universal Studios monster franchises,…
How fortuitous that the second installment in The Open Man October FRIGHT-Day falls on Friday the 13th! That's a Yahtzee for all horror movie buffs. The month in which Halloween falls also having a Friday the 13th combines the two most famous entries into the slasher genre. For those unfamiliar with the nomenclature, the label…
How I Would Script is a weekly column at The Open Man by Joseph Nardone. In it, our favorite, most handsome Internet Scribbler maps out how he would recreate whatever TV show or movie that is on his mind. Have a suggestion? Hit him on Twitter @JosephNardone. When is the last time you actually enjoyed one of the eight…
Every Friday in October, The Open Man is spotlighting genres and themes of horror cinema. This is FRIGHT-Day! For the faint of heart, remind yourself: It's only a blog. Much of the thrill of horror is the unknown. Likewise, the genre lends itself to creativity; the best works are completely unique concepts, no matter if…
How I Would Script is a weekly column at The Open Man by Joseph Nardone. In it, our favorite, most handsome Internet Scribbler maps out how he would recreate whatever TV show or movie that is on his mind. Have a suggestion? Hit him on Twitter @JosephNardone. Reboots are coming under attack. Often tagged as Hollywood's lazy attempt to…
How I Would Script is a weekly column at The Open Man by Joseph Nardone. In it, our favorite, most handsome Internet Scribbler maps out how he would recreate whatever TV show or movie that is on his mind. Have a suggestion? Hit him on Twitter @JosephNardone. This is probably our strangest How I Would Script yet, as we're…
