Celebrating a birthday today are 4 stars of television. Jodie Sweetin, who plays Stephanie in Full House and Fuller House, turns 36 and watch for her in a new thriller series Strange Ones coming out later this year. Katey Sagal, who starred as Peggy in Married with Children, voiced Leela in Futurama, and was Gemma Teller Morrow in Sons of Anarchy turns 64, and is currently appearing as Randy DeLuca in Superior Donuts. I grew up watching Full House, only…
Jason Bateman turns 49 today and is one of my favorite funny actors on tv, who has also had plenty of success on the big screen throughout his 35+ years in the business. He is most well known for playing Michael Bluth in the hilarious series Arrested Development, (4 seasons 2003-2013, Netflix announced season 5 is coming), and is currently co-starring with Laura Linney in the crime drama series Ozark, (he moves his family after some dealings with a drug…
Rob Zombie turns 53 today and is one of my favorite artists working in film and music. He was in the band White Zombie (4 albums 1987-1995, my favorite is Astro Creep: 2000, the bands last album and the first CD I bought), continues making solo albums (6 between 1998-2016 with additional remix albums), and has written and directed a growing number of films. His first, the horror House of 1000 Corpses was as gruesome as you may expect from…
Jemaine Clement turns 44 today and I recently watched his 2014 film, What We Do in the Shadows. He co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in the horror comedy with Taika Waititi (who would make Thor: Ragnarok three years later), about a family of vampires who are having a documentary film made about them. Clement is from New Zealand (as is Waititi and where the film was shot), starred in Flight of the Conchords (2007-2009 comedy series), was the villain in Men…
Driven Around is a short film about an online blogger (Allison) who interviews an undercover cop (Garvin) during a ride along. Filmed on June 15, 2017 in Edmonton, Alberta and produced by Chopped Onion Studios. Look for a gag reel coming soon! Driven Around (2017)
One of the best animated films in recent years is 2012’s Rise of the Guardians. This fun, family, adventure film stars heroes such as Jack Frost (voiced by Chris Pine), the Tooth fairy (Isla Fisher), the Easter bunny (Hugh Jackman), and Santa Claus who is known as North (Alec Baldwin) in recognizable, yet updated takes on the personas. The group gets together to try and stop the boogeyman Pitch (Jude Law) from harming children across the world while also taking…
My wife and I are watching our favorite Christmas themed movies, the latest being 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol starring Michael Caine as Scrooge. The plot has been retold numerous times, an old, bitter man (Caine) is visited by 3 spirits on Christmas Eve and he questions his way of living and treating people. Muppets were created in 1955 by Jim and Jane Henson, had 3 films released between 1979-1984, and had another 3 films beginning with Carol and followed…
A more recent annual favorite to watch at this time of year is 2011’s comedy, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas starring Kal Penn and John Cho. The third film starring the Harold & Kumar characters following H&K Go to White Castle (2004) and H&K Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008), 3D Christmas ages them to be closer to the actors themselves (skipping 6 years in character time from the last film made 3 years ago). Like the first two,…
To celebrate Julianne Moore turning 57 today, I watched her 2014 Oscar winning performance in Still Alice. The film is about a professor who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and earned Moore a Best Leading Actress Oscar after being nominated 4 other times since 1997 (including 2 in the same year!). Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, got her first acting credit for I’ll Take Manhattan (1987 tv mini-series), and is perhaps most known for her roles in a…
Recently had a craving for 2 comedies from 2006, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj starring Kal Penn. Both films loved sexually charged jokes, forced accents (Cohen is British and Penn is American), and had scenes filmed in Romania (also the USA in Borat and the UK in Rise of Taj). Cohen had already introduced the character in his Da Ali G…