Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Midday Music Day 24. Fooled Around and Fell in Love by Elvin Bishop.
This is a song that will always improve my mood. It takes me back to the summer of ’76… drive-in movies, a little money in my pocket, good friends… good times.
Film School Rejects recently posted Rob Hunter’s 15 Things We Learned from The Breakfast Club Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
5. Nelson had improv’d the bit where he spits a “loogie” into the air and catches it back in his mouth during rehearsal, and Hughes loved how much it grossed out Ringwald so he added it to the scene.
12. The hallway montage where the kids try to avoid Vernon (Gleason) strikes them as a combination of M.C. Escher and Scooby-Doo in the way the angles, near-misses and obvious playfulness lacks any semblance of logic.
9. Hall and Ringwald were the only two of the five who had to attend actual classes during production.
Midday Music Day 23. I Go Crazy by Paul Davis.
I was lucky enough to see Paul Davis in a couple of concerts at Disney World back in the early 80’s. Great concerts with wonderful songs by another performer who left us too soon.
Superman’s message to 1950’s school kids is still relevant.
Diversions of the Groovy Kind is a regular stop on my daily website visits. You’ll always find something cool like this post of Marvel covers featuring team ups which is called: Please As Punch to See You or Marvel Heroes Hit It Off!
Sometimes You Just Have to Shut Up and Dance!
Midday Music Day 22. Sail On by The Commodores.
A classic that I’m always ready to hear.
Sean Hutchinson at Mental_Floss presents 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About 28 Weeks Later. Here are my three favorites…
1. THE ORIGINAL STORY FOR THE SEQUEL WAS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Titled 29 Days Later, the original sequel told the story of British marines attempting to rescue the Prime Minister and the Queen of England.
3. DANNY BOYLE DID MAKE A DIRECTING CAMEO
He directed second unit footage of the opening scene.
15. THE FILM’S CODA WAS SHOT LAST
The filmmakers came up with the idea for the coda just two weeks before production wrapped. Fresnadillo traveled to Paris with a limited crew and only HD cameras to shoot it in one afternoon.
Greg Nicotero invited Variety [and us – thanks to the video below] into his studio for a behind-the-scenes look at how they create Walking Dead zombies and more.
Midday Music Day 21. Sara Smile by Hall & Oates.
Ah, back in the 70’s. Sara Smile by Hall and Oates is one of those songs that I am always ready to listen to because I can close my eyes and it takes me right back to a great time in high school.
The new trailer for the next James Bond 007 film Spectre has arrived!
Astronauts are modern day adventurers. The very first astronauts were that and more.
Those first astronauts were insanely brave and willing to to take chances no man before them had the opportunity to attempt. Their space ships were small and the computers on board were less powerful than today’s average middle school student’s cell phone. Each journey into space was a life or death trip with national pride on the line.
Sadly, because the US became so proficient in sending people into space, as citizens we became complacent. Before the Challenger tragedy, many of the major stations stopped carrying shuttle launches live because people weren’t tuning in. Ah, but I digress.
Mika McKinnon’s post, 50 Years Ago, The First Spacewalk Nearly Ended In Tragedy is an excellent piece that details just how many ways the first spacewalk nearly killed the cosmonauts completing the mission.
Source: i09.
Hilary Walczak, an archivist for Grove City College, recently discovered over 150 vintage American War II posters that hadn’t been seen in over 60 years ago.
You can see them now by clicking over.
Source: io9.
I like this poster for Monsters: Dark Continent and I’m interested in seeing the movie. My interest is tempered somewhat because I thought that Monsters was slow and well below my expectations.
New trailer for Southpaw.
Directed by Antoine [Training Day] Fuqua and starring Academy Award® nominees Jake Gyllenhaal and Forest Whitaker from a story by Kurt [Sons of Anarchy] Sutter.
