When the idea for “Cool, Cool, Cool Summer 2019” was born, I knew that part of the experiment would be viewing popular movies that I never managed to see while growing up. Dune is one of those movies. Having never heard any good opinions or reviews towards this movie, I never felt the urge to […]
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“The kids are brats, the food is hideous…”
Continuing on my journey to re-experience the movies and entertainment that filled my adolescent years, it’s time to go to camp! Meatballs is one of those movies that must have had heavy replay on HBO, because I know I watched it dozens of times. The target audience is teenage kids, and since I’m way outside […]
Adventure was everywhere… and dragons were real.
When I was a kid, Dragonslayer was the kind of movie that I adored — dragons, swords, young maidens in distress — check, check, and check! I had only vague memories of this memory before watching it again last night — I remembered the dragon scale shield because I used that technique in D&D adventures […]
“That hurts me just looking at it.”
To kick off the Cool Summer 2019 festivities, I thought Hong Kong was a good a place to begin. Much of my youth was spent fantasizing about ninjas and devouring any martial arts magazine or movie that I could get my hands on, and one of the biggest movies of them all was Bloodsport, starring […]
It’s gonna be a cool, cool, cool summer
This summer, I’ve decided to embrace the pop culture elements that made me what I am today. I am going to go out of my way to revisit the 70’s and 80’s, the two decades of my youth that saw me from birth to graduating high school. I’ll try and fill in some of my […]