1,000 Hits

With a little over 24 hours of voting left in Boston Market’s Homemade Movie Contest, COP AND CUP! has received a semi-astonishing 1,000 hits and earned a solid ranking of 4.5 stars out of a possible 5. This means that aside from the 100 or so votes cast by family (love ya, Mom), friends (you guys rock) and random visitors to this site (a little creepy you’re reading a stranger’s blog but...

Dream Analysis

Not too long ago, George Lucas took enough time away from making Greedo shoot first to do a magazine interview about his inspiration for the original STAR WARS trilogy. And as he tells it, the whole thing – cue harp music – started with a dream. While history proves that his “dream” was most likely a 1958 samurai movie entitled HIDDEN FORTRESS, Lucas nevertheless raises an...

I, Roommate

Well, it’s finally happening – my roommate-less status is being revoked. Tomorrow marks Andy Waruszewski’s triumphant return from his fourth-month stint on a Mexican horror flick, which means the clock is now ticking on my final 24 hours as “the guy without a roommate.” And okay, I’ll admit it. I’m not all that thrilled. Now before all of you out there in the blogosphere go...

Coppin’ for Votes

COP AND CUP! – our bid for eternal glory in the Boston Market Homemade Movie Contest – is now up on the competition’s official site. Featuring the cinematic stylings of Jeffrey Waldron, producorial skills of Christina Ferguson and acting chops of SILVER BULLET veterans Sean Dryke and Justin Ipock, the film’s a 60-second look at how a renegade detective and his...

The Science of Superheroes

As it turns out, getting my thoughts down on SUPERMAN RETURNS was exactly the motivation I needed to check out the superheroes exhibit going on at the California Science Center. This isn’t to say I haven’t been looking forward to seeing Marvel’s attempt at stimulating youngsters’ minds through comic books – an irony on par with big tobacco promoting lung health by doling out...