Popcorn Zombies

By Michael Momper Before reading further, I urge you to see the movie if you are a Toy Story fan and then adjudicate yourself as to what you like or don't like from it... I'm curious to hear your thoughts! There are spoilers below. I am about as big a Toy Story fan as you can find. A seminal piece of my childhood, this franchise thrice delivered heartwarming, emotional, hilarious and innocent entertainment. It is one of the highest rated trilogies of all time, and a lot of that is due to the fact that it tackles big questions, deftly maneuvers through multiple plot lines and wonderfully balances the character arcs of a large ensemble ranging from the goofy side characters to the more important friendships that stand at the franchise's core. Make no mistake about it, Woody and Buzz are the cornerstone of this franchise, in terms of merchandise sales, placement on posters, screen time as a whole, and even video game stardom. I will mince no words with the latest s...

Graham Craycraft Bob Dylan is perhaps the most influential American musician in history. Putting out critically acclaimed music in his early twenties and continues to record and tour even now at seventy eight years old. Pairing Dylan with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese yields something close to a 100% success rate. That’s exactly what happened in June 2019. Scorsese released a documentary film on Netflix that covers Dylan’s tour with group Rolling Thunder Revue which consisted of around 15 members with names like Joan Baez, Scarlet Rivera, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and more. The group toured from 1975-76 around the US and famously wore white makeup and dressed in slightly more outrageous costumes. On this tour Dylan unveiled songs such as “Isis” (the song of man who would do anything for love), Hurricane (the song about the boxer nicknamed “Hurricane” wrongly imprisoned on murder charges) and “One More Cup of Coffee” (an eerie call to the other side before the narrator hims...