I am a lover of pop culture, there is no doubt.  However, I am the first to admit that when it comes to music, I am a bit unschooled.  I’ve heard countless times, after the reference of a specific lyric, song or artist, “I know you’ve heard it” or “I know you know their song;” but, unless it was played in a movie or television show, I usually can’t make the connection right away. As you can probably figure by now, I am a very visual learner and certainly more captured by the video part of audio…

I was as giddy as a five year-old entering Disneyland for the first time when I heard that Battle of the Network Stars was returning to ABC this summer.  To be fair, when it comes to television, a lot of what was old is getting a chance to be new again:  Match Game, Roseanne, The $100,000 Pyramid, Lethal Weapon, Fuller House, Will & Grace, Dynasty, etc.  However, nothing was as elating to me as hearing about the addition to the summer 2017 primetime lineup of one of my favorite past specialty shows. It was back during prime network…

My planned entry idea about TV families took a very sharp and swift detour after I started thinking about just how cool it was that the Brady Bunch had almost an entire episode filmed at and around Kings Island. But, before we go any further, let me please straighten something out for those of you that did not grow up in Cincinnati.  It is NOT an island for an extraordinary king or a place named after some amusement park tycoon with the last name King.  There is NO apostrophe – Kings Island (correct), King’s Island (not correct).  We all have…

Looking for movies about winter (not holiday movies, just winter)?  Fall?  Spring?   A few, for sure, but nothing compares to how many movies there are about summer!  Whether celebrating the newly graduated, the long awaited vacation, or the fun filled trip to camp; there are plenty to choose from. Many even put the name “summer” right in the title…Summer Catch, Summer School, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of ’42, A Summer Place, One Crazy Summer, (500) Days of Summer, The Kings of Summer, Wet Hot American Summer, Summer Rental, Summer Lovers, Corvette Summer and so on…

Yeah, sometimes I’m a sucker.  Peer pressure is something that never really got to me, but movie character pressure puts the heat on quite often.  Show me something in a movie and if it intrigues me, catches my eye or just looks cool, I probably have to try it.  I may not “jump off the bridge” if everyone else does; however, I will certainly revamp pieces of my wardrobe, re-create memorable movie scenes in real life, get my hair cut a new way or try an odd cuisine choice if I see it on the screen.  I mean…