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The post Movie Meltdown: Drop in the Convention with the Most Interesting Man in the World appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Movie Meltdown – Drop in the Convention with the Most Interesting Man in the World Join us as we drop in to the Lexington Comic and Toy Convention and talk about

The post Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold: Game for Anything, by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi appeared first on Battleship Pretension. The 1990s were full of so many news stories of postal workers, some of which were recently fired, losing it and shooting up their offices that the phrase “going postal” entered the

The fortunes of Shaw Brothers were not doing great as the ’80s arrived. The major studio that once dominated Hong Kong’s box office was finding itself being edged out by newer studios and films by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. Even worse was the rise of television and home video.

My favorite time in sports is rapidly approaching. Come July, you can find me glued to the Tour De France. The nearly month long bicycle race is always on my TV in the morning. I don’t have a favorite cyclist or team. Mostly I watch the race so I can

The first (and probably only) Czechoslovakian film that I ever saw in a theater in the ’80s was Alice by Jan Švankmajer. The movie played in Febuary of 1989 at The Rialto, my local arthouse theater. This was a few months before the Velvet Revolution freed Czechoslovakia from communist rule.