Old guys go for a hike. A Walk in The Woods sees Robert Redford playing famed author Bill Bryson, who seems to be having a late onset midlife crisis. After attending a funeral he didn’t want to attend, he decides to hike the [easyazon_link identifier=”188938691X” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Appalachian Trail[/easyazon_link]. This trail runs a bit over 2,000 miles. Bill would pipe in at this point to correct me by saying The Trail is 2,180 miles. That’s the kind of guy Bill is. A know-it-all’s know-it-all who likes to rattle off random facts and statistics. But that’s fine, it’s the knowing detail that…
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Anyone remember the Chevy Chase Show? That’s what I kept flashing back to while watching Stephen Colbert channel a sleazy used car salesman as his new TV persona. That first episode of The Chevy Chase Show was packed with fans who laughed at every gag the [easyazon_link identifier=”B000JLQPYK” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]SNL[/easyazon_link] alum tossed out, much as the crowd here hooted and hollered and chanted Stephen Stephen Stephen! This was the first episode, so I can cut Stephen some slack, but not much. The Late Show set has been remodeled to resemble the set for [easyazon_link identifier=”B007JVM69Q” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]The Dean Martin Show[/easyazon_link],…
Showgirls
Before there was Fant4stick, there was Showgirls. And [easyazon_link identifier=”1479881066″ locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Heaven’s Gate[/easyazon_link] and [easyazon_link identifier=”B000ICZCQW” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Waterworld[/easyazon_link] and [easyazon_link identifier=”B0037QGRVK” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Ishtar[/easyazon_link] and my own personal choice for Worst Movie of All Time: Peter Jackson’s King Kong. What sets these movies apart from, oh say, Battlefield Earth and The Phantom Menace and Matrix Revolutions? These were supposed to be serious films. They have real directors and real actors and real screenwriters, and yet, they are really bad. I found a cool little book called It Doesn’t Suck, which tells the tale of Showgirls. So I decided to give to…
Selling Photos Online-Or Not So Much
One of my Twitter Buddies asked me advice on selling photos online. I’m a professional photographer. Taking portraits is how I pay the bills and what allows me to travel around the country. I don’t sell portraits online. I now do Shoot and Show, as the Assembly Line Portrait business calls it. I take portraits and then turn around and show the subjects proofs of their images. On a good day I sell around a thousand dollars worth of portraits. On a bad day, a few hundred dollars worth. I’m not very good at selling. The hot shots at The…
Star Trek Renegades
Fan Fiction and Kickstarter, a wicked combination. Star Trek Renegades is a collection of older actors and very bad special effects. The big name stars here are Walter Koenig and Tim Russ, both familiar to fans of Star Trek. Sean Young and several other blasts from the past have roles as well. Time has not been kind to these people. There is an odd production error early in the film when we see a monument to Admiral Nimoy that should have been to Admiral Spock. Or maybe it should have been to Leonard Nimoy, without any military titles. Star Trek…
Salvage City
One of the fun things about living in hotel rooms is that you get to see all kinds of random crap on TV. King of the oddball show is The Discovery Channel. There are all kinds of goofy shows here from sort of reality shows to sort of educational shows. Amish Mafia and Naked and Afraid are two recent titles that kind of boggle the mind. Salvage City was a very short lived show. It has all of three episodes and you can watch them on YouTube. The idea here is what if American Pickers found a pile of junk, and…
The One I Love
Stop reading. Go watch The One I Love Best seen without any clues. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00MB7KXPM” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]The One I Love[/easyazon_link] is directed by Charlie McDowell and stars Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss with a small part played by Ted Danson. And that’s it for the cast. The bulk of the film is about a couple taking a weekend away to try and work on their problems. We open up with Ted Danson going through the motions of being a couple’s therapist. It isn’t going well. So he gives them a card and tells them to take the weekend. They drive…
Chef
[easyazon_link identifier=”B00KQTHKQC” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Chef[/easyazon_link] is the story of a man who was once a great cook, but he’s now fallen into a rut. His Boss runs a successful restaurant that has used the same Menu for ten years. Our hero, Carl, wants to try something new and different. He wants to go all [easyazon_link identifier=”0811873471″ locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Top Chef[/easyazon_link] on a food blogger, but the Boss insists that he stick with the tried and true. Even when the restaurant is filled with people from a Twitter war, the Boss still thinks they are there because they want the same old boring…
Frank
He never takes the mask off. [easyazon_link identifier=”B00NBNY7P2″ locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Frank[/easyazon_link] is the story of man who wants to be a Social Media Rockstar and a Music Rockstar. One night he watches as a music group’s keyboard man tries to kill himself. He says, hey, I play keyboard. And just like that he joins the band. He notices that something is a bit off. The band’s lead singer, Frank, wears a large papier-mache mask at all times. Our hero thinks he is going to play a gig for the weekend, but soon discovers that he is to work on an album.…
Mr Holmes
The case is afoot. In 1947 we find a 93 year old Sherlock Holmes living in Sussex caring for his bees. He’s just back from Japan and he has a few squabbles with his housekeeper. He also spends a bit of time with her son, caring for his bees and trying to recall the details of his last cast some thirty years in the past. As [easyazon_link identifier=”B014PIQYIO” locale=”US” tag=”londonthoug-20″]Mr Holmes[/easyazon_link] opens, easily the most shocking element comes during the opening credits, this is a Miramax film. I would have been no more surprised to see the RKO Radio Pictures…