Caliban's Revenge

So, J and I had a three lovely nights and 2 and a half days together this weekend. We shopped for and planted my flower garden, cooked an...

Okay - since it's been so long and everyone else in the world but M and I have already seen it, I will not be giving any spoiler warn...

Bimbo's Initiation I posted Bimbo's Initiation and commented briefly on Facebook, but I had to expand on it and the work of pr...

Nom-Nom-Nom-Nom-Nom-Nom! As promised, I went and took a look at the remaining Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts and was truly delighted b...

The older I get, the less I care about entertainment awards shows. When I was a kid, there were only five: The Oscars; The Tonys; The Emm...

As a kid, Uncle P's Mother spent part of her summer vacations with her grandmother at Coney Island. I heard stories about the Steeple...

Norman is a boy who can talk to the dead. His parents are worried and most of the other kids at school make fun of him because they don...

Hambuster Before we get to tonight's "Main Event" (as it were), there's a new interview out with the brilliant genre di...

Before I get to the clip I want to talk about tonight, I have to share some final thoughts about the Season 2 finale of "The Walking D...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Way back in 1997, Disney angered the population of an entire country when it released the animated m...

Wow. It's been a very long time since I've done a 'Forgotten Gems' post. I think I need to do more. So here's one...  ...

Just for some end-of-the-month weirdness, I thought I'd share the very demented but hysterically funny short film embedded below. I act...

The trailer for Steven Spielberg's motion-capture version of the Belgian comic Tintin is out, and while I must admit that Peter Jackso...

I am hardly a sociologist or psychologist (though basic knowledge of each is most helpful to directors and actors), so I have no real idea ...

The picture says it all. Fox TV's latest animated series "Bob's Burgers" is simply dreadful, despite the presence of the...

No, I won't say I am writing a great movie... But I am writing yet another one and it's been ages since I've worked on it, so t...

Wow... long time since I've done one of these, eh? Every so often, something from my youth rears its head in unexpected ways and places....

I really should have titled that in a different order, since I'm actually starting with the last item, first ("Oh, Uncle P , you...

As you must know by now, my other mania is for all things related to Cirque Du Solei l. The last show I saw of saw of theirs was " Ko...

You may want to file this under " Prospero's Philosophy," though I will leave it up to you. Suffice it to say, I think this i...