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The Fear of Failure

There is this scene in the comedy, Top Secret! where Nick Rivers (played by Val Kilmer) is having a nightmare that he’s back in school and has no idea where the college final is. He wakes up and realizes he’s being tortured and his happier with being tort...

Deadpool and Wolverine is what MCU and Disney needed

Every successful movie franchise will hit a brick wall. For James Bond, it was Licence To Kill with Timothy Dalton. For Star Wars, it is Solo. Franchises that don’t try to rebound from the brick wall, end. Just ask the folks behind Police Academy who though...

The Theater of the Absurd

You will find stories of people getting fired for social media posts and I have zero sympathy for t...

What’s woke?

I don’t know when woke became a part of our lexicon or when people got so riled about something t...

Kiss Your Past Goodbye

“I been so lost I must confess I had my share of loneliness But yeah, it’s hard to ...

Disney needed to cut back on Marvel

After The Marvels imploded at the box office and cost Disney into the hundreds of millions, it was ...

The Last Boy Scout

They often say that most people, look up to their parents as idols. Parents are there to educate, t...

The college thing

As the story goes, I went to a really good high school in Brooklyn and didn’t try very hard. For ...

Fanatics is the 800 pound gorilla in the room

As a sports fan and collector, it’s amazing how big Fanatics has become over the years. It starte...

IPod R.I.P.

The iPod and the iTunes store were the products that saved Apple. I remember in the 1990s before St...