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Keeping Up with the (Indy) Joneses

Keeping Up with the (Indy) Joneses

I absolutely love Indiana Jones. Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all time favorite movies. The latest chapter in the famed franchise has been in development for years. Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont took a whack at the screenplay (for whatever reason, George Lucas rejected the scr... [More]

Preliminary Police Report

Preliminary Police Report

Oh Happy Day, Tyson Cantrell (the Prodigal Son of a Bitch) Returns with his colorful account of the Big Police Reunion. MGM Grand Hotel/Casino Las Vegas, Nevada Usually I don't like to be around the police. They make me nervous. A friend somehow finagled five tickets off the internet for the... [More]

CineVegas Adam Looks @ My Name Is Bruce

CineVegas Adam Looks @ My Name Is Bruce

Featuring reviews of Look and handles My Name is Bruce! with care. LOOK (R) Look is not at all what I expected. After reading a synopsis about the film, I was lead to believe this flick would be a documentary comprised of actual surveillance footage pulled from various security camera sy... [More]

Plumbing New Depths

Plumbing New Depths

About two weeks ago my water heater crapped out. Not such a huge deal, right? Call a plumber, have him check the element first and if it's worse than that you pony up for a new one. Not quite that simple, I'm afraid. That approach is for people who have water heaters they can "see." Although we know... [More]

Boneman's CineVegas Finale

Boneman's CineVegas Finale

One More Saturday Night Charlize Theron received the annual Half-Life award, probably because of all that radiation she was subjected to in The Astronauts Wife. Which is just a really lame joke, The Half Life award goes to someone who has amassed an impressive body of work, but still has many pro... [More]

CineVegas Week 2 - 2 Much Fun

CineVegas Week 2 - 2 Much Fun

Upon our return to the festival on Thursday Evening we got there in time for a cocktail party up in the Director's Lounge (A suite with the furniture rearranged) certainly don't mistake this for sarcasm, because one of the new appointments to the room was a bar. One of those special kind, with the w... [More]

CineVegas: A lick and a promise

CineVegas: A lick and a promise

By evening tonight I will have another juicy CineVegas report up for your perusal and amusal - a number of interesting and perhaps life altering incidents transpired. Among them was a handshake to end all handshakes from my own personal hero David Lynch. Had I not met his grasp with a solid handle o... [More]

CineVegas Big Report

CineVegas Big Report

CINEVEGAS! Report #1! By Adam Mast Oh how I love glorious CineVegas. It's just like Sundance only far less hectic. This year, The Boneman and I have a little assistance in the form of moonlighting writer Tyler Sanders and our newest recruit, the legendary Jeff Dresback. We've wanted Jeff on boa... [More]

CineVegas Report - A Dark Day 1

CineVegas Report - A Dark Day 1

With CineVegas in full swing Adam and I will be taking a break for a couple days in order to catch up on that arduous and oh-so important aspect of covering film festivals – the actual "writing about it" part. Meanwhile our hot new recruit noted cinema scholar Jeff will take over the Watch while we... [More]

Vegas Ahoy

Vegas Ahoy

It looks like we're off on another cinematic adventure. Headed points south to the quaint little "blink and you miss it" burg known as Las Vegas. Accompanying Adam and I on our initial foray will be the inimitable Tyler "the Colonel" Sanders. Who has counterfeited an invitation to Lyndsay Lohan's 21... [More]

Two Thumbs Knocked Up

Two Thumbs Knocked Up

I felt inspired today to urge everyone (of legal age) to let nothing stop them from seeing the best film of the year - at least until the Oscar push of the Holidays. Laughs ambush you from all sides as even those character with the briefest opportunities come armed with the goods. It's hands down... [More]

What Happens at CineVegas

What Happens at CineVegas

CINEMATIC BLISS IN SIN CITY! A CINEVEGAS PREVIEW! For those of you who love The Sundance Film Festival, but are tired of escalating ticket prices and waiting long hours in line, why not head down to Sin City and attend CineVegas? This ten day film festival was created by Sundance senior programm... [More]

Star Wars Turns 30

Star Wars Turns 30

It's hard to believe that George Lucas' iconic universe turned thirty this week. I was eight years old the first time I saw Star Wars and it left a long lasting impact on me. It was a warm day in Santa Rosa, CA. I can't remember the name of the theater, but it was a single screen. This was way back... [More]

Post-Post-Season Depression

Post-Post-Season Depression

Know this about the Boneman, I love the Utah Jazz. When they win, it pleases me very much. When they lose, I can be pissy for several hours. Right now I'm struggling to keep all my personal relationships from falling apart and fantasizing about the plausibility of murdering a referee and getting aw... [More]

Bone in Progress

Bone in Progress

Celebrity marriages make for some of the luckiest flies ever to eavesdrop from the living room wall. If you mix Ryan O Neal's exchange of gunfire with his son and that infamous Farrah Faucett meltdown on David Letterman into the equation you've gotta believe that the O'Neals put on a lively show for... [More]