Friends are good to have.  While this sentiment may seem trite, the movie Grown Ups does go a long way towards proving it.  Namely, it proves that if your friend is Adam Sandler you will never go broke.  Just ask Rob Schneider.  This movie is just loaded with Sandler’s buddies from Saturday Night Live.  In [...]

James Mangold has had an interesting directorial career.  He’s worked in such wildly disparate genres as police drama (Cop Land), asylum movie (Girl, Interrupted), high concept romantic comedy (Kate & Leopold), horror (Identity), biopic (Walk the Line), and western (3:10 to Yuma).  All these films have been more or less well-received (and won Angelina Jolie [...]

This will be short. I am up to my ears in boxes and packing tape as I prepare to move out of Harlem. I have lived in the district for 3 years – 3 beautiful years. Harlem’s got something special. And I had a piece of that something. I was inspired to be still and [...]

(All Pictures Taken by Randy Graham, My Father) I just got back from Ireland, please excuse my two week hiatus, and absolutely loved it. Flew in to Dublin and realized that was NOT Ireland and left the city life for the countryside, spending 14 days driving around the coast of Ireland. I had heard, but [...]

Do you remember when going to the movies was fun?  There was a time when movies did not all strive to be the grittiest most realistic depiction of violence on the block.  There was a time when action movies were not somber affairs like the Bourne movies or boring lessons in bad history like Ridley Scott’s recent [...]

I’m half a day late because I’ve been devouring social media all day long. Please forgive me. Many have tried but few have succeeded in making my all important (to me anyway) timelines, news feeds and Google Reader. And since I have the day off, I’m doing my best to get up to speed with [...]

I lay awake. Again. Something inside needs to be fed. Something inside is being overlooked while all the wrong parts are being over-analyzed. It’s times like these that I find myself maneuvering my furniture around the room into the dark hours of the night- stacking, folding, rearranging, and hoping to come across a perfect sequence [...]

“To a new world of gods and monsters…” — Dr. Septimus Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein As it happens I was watching a program on the Science Channel last night that detailed scientists’ endeavor to artificially create life.  They did it.  It’s out there.  It’s only bacterial now but technological evolution moves at unimaginable speeds.  [...]

Over the last few years, Judd Apatow has been giving us hard-R-rated comedies that actually have a heart behind them so we can relate to the characters as we laugh uproariously at their zany antics.  He has made shitloads of money doing this.  Now he’s big time and can do pretty much whatever he pleases [...]

I’ve been at my job for over two months now. Everyday I feel like I take a trip around the world. People come from all over the place to be here and I get to be part of some really amazing stories along the way. Most notable, recent guests were a group of ladies from [...]