By Geno McGahee A campfire setting is always good for a horror anthology. There are plenty of horror films that adopt the name “CAMPFIRE TALES” or some variation because that is part of the experience. You sit around a campfire and tell scary stories and that is the setting for […]
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Steve Kaplan – The Hidden Tools of Comedy Author Speaks
Podcast by Forris Day JR Forris’s guest on Coffee Shop Conversations is Steve Kaplan, a master of comedy. In his book “The Hidden Tools of Comedy” he teaches the reader how to dissect a movie scene and learn what makes it funny and what makes it not funny. Through examples […]
Claudia Esposito – A Christmas Tree Miracle Star Speaks – Movie News
Podcast by Forris Day JR A Christmas Tree Miracle is a fun family film starring todays “Coffee Shop Conversation” guest Claudia Esposito. Claudia plays the mom Julie George in this heartwarming holiday movie. She discusses here relatively new career in acting and how she started. A pleasant conversation is on […]
The Vagrant (1992) – Bill Paxton Home Alone HORROR MOVIE REVIEW
By Geno McGahee I’m a big Bill Paxton fan. He is one of those actors that can carry a flick but has not reached the superstar status, but he has made quite the living. In the early 1990s, he took what he could get for work, as most struggling actors […]
Freedom Force (2013) – Children’s Movie Review
By Forris Day JR Terrible things are happening! A mad scientist has removed all the main characters from Jules Verne’s many stories and now four kids and their dog are chosen to go back in time to fix the tales. Not only have the characters been removed but the stories […]
The Mod Squad – TV SERIES REVIEW
By Forris Day Jr. Undercover cops have never been so cool..or potentially stoned as they were in the great TV show that ran from 1968 – 1973 called “The Mod Squad”. The show was produced by Aaron Spelling. It centers on three hippie undercover cops, Peter Cochran (Michael Cole), Julie […]
Flash Forward: The Complete Series – DVD set REVIEW
By Wayne C. Rogers Starring Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Sonya Walger, Courtney B. Vance, Dominic Monihan, and others 430 minutes From September of 2009 to May of 2010, the television drama/science fiction show, Flash Forward (separating the words in the title is my idea), was broadcast on ABC…twenty-two episodes in […]
Black Christmas (1974) – Xmas HORROR MOVIE REVIEW
By Geno McGahee This has to be one of the greatest horror films of all time…a slasher that actually frightens you. Bob Clark directs this masterpiece, and it should be noted that he also directed and co-wrote another classic from 1972: “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.” In Black Christmas, […]
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) – XMAS HORROR MOVIE SLASHER REVIEW
By Geno McGahee “You see Santa Claus tonight you better run boy, you better run for ya life!” – Grampa (Will Hare) When I was a kid, there was a movie that had really gotten my attention. I was always attracted to the horror genre and when I saw the […]
“The Hidden Tools of Comedy” by Steve Kaplan – BOOK REVIEW
By Forris Day Jr. Imagine you are a stand up comedian and as you walk off stage from your set you hear an audience member yell “Someone call the cops because….YOU KILLED IT!”. Relax, do not run out the back door, no one has died, you are not in trouble. […]
Blues Guitarist Jeff Pitchell – Musician Speaks to Scared Stiff
Podcast by Forris Day JR It’s a musical show today on Coffee Shop Conversations as Blues Guitarist Jeff Pitchell sits down with Forris and discuses his quarter century as a professional in the music business. Jeff has played with a myriad of folks including Ed King, Dickey Betts, Rick Derringer, […]
From Stuntwoman to Star — Zoë Bell in Five Films at MoMI – MOVIE NEWS
Zoë Bell, the international action icon discovered by Quentin Tarantino, will appear at Museum of the Moving Image with a preview screening of her new film Raze, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. In this exciting and relentlessly hyperviolent action film directed by Josh Waller, she stars as a woman forced […]