Month: September 2020

Ken Levine on ‘The reprehensible presidential debate’

The best thing to come out of last night’s fiasco “debate” is this look at it from comedy (and now political) master Ken Levine.

CLEVELAND, OHIO – SEPTEMBER 28: Workers prepare the stage for the first presidential debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden

by Ken Levine

After last night’s utter Shit Show (as “Fake News” journalist, Dana Bash so succinctly put it), if you are still for Trump, please stop reading my blog.  Please do not listen to my podcast.  Please do not follow me on social media.   Unfriend me.  Unsubscribe. Block me. I don’t care.  Please just GO AWAY.    Of course I’m disabling comments, libtard that I am.

And before I get into the debate, let me say this to Trump supporters —  I care more about your welfare and safety than you do.  I don’t want you to lose your health insurance.  I don’t want you to contract COVID-19 and needlessly die.  I don’t want your house to be swept away in a flood.  I don’t want to see you out of work for two years because of how mishandled this pandemic was.    A vote for Trump is shooting YOURSELF in the foot. read article

How To Shoot A Film At 3 Different Budget Levels

Essential film and TV making knowledge via In Depth Cine’s YouTube channel.

Herbie J Pilato’s ‘TV Guide’ Fall Preview Memories

by Herbie J Pilato

For many, the 1950s is considered television’s “Golden Age.” But as far as I’m concerned, that era expanded in the 1960s and 1970s, during which time I was born and raised in my hometown of Rochester, New York.

As fate would have it, Rochester was one of the test market areas for TV Guide. Who knew, right? I certainly didn’t, not while I was reading and loving every page of the latest edition of that magazine, every week.

I very much looked forward to buying TV Guide every seven days. And I would run, not walk, but RUN to the corner store every end-of-summer to purchase the special, expanded FALL PREVIEW issue. read article

‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’ is the most subversive show on TV…

LB’S NOTE: Really, it is…assuming that streaming is TV. The way definitions are changing, this sly, funny, insane series probably could just as easily be called a multi-part feature film.

But that’s not my point. I’ve watched the first four episodes so far and have been consistently amazed at the intensity of its satire of good ole church-goin’ Southerners. I’m also amazed by the fact that said church-goin’ Southerners haven’t yet arisen in angry protest at the truth being presented here. read article

The Secret Origins of Mycroft, Eudoria, Enola & Sherrinford Holmes

ENOLA HOLMES (L to R) HENRY CAVILL as Sherlock Holmes, SAM CLAFLIN as MYCROFT HOLMES, MILLIE BOBBY BROWN as ENOLA HOLMES. Cr. ALEX BAILEY/LEGENDARY ©2020

How FanFic Expands the Sherlock Holmes Family
by Ryan Britt

LB’S NOTE: Remember when people used to mock fan fiction for being, oh, you know, fan fiction? Seems like just the other day, right? Because it was. But those days are over, gang. Here’s why.

New Netflix film Enola Holmes gives Sherlock Holmes a family beyond his estranged brother Mycroft. The Holmes family tree though, doesn’t come from Conan Doyle. Instead, it’s the result of a long history of fan fiction

Author Nancy Springer invented Sherlock’s secret sister. You might remember back in 2017 when Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes met his secret — and criminally insane — sister Eurus Holmes (Sian Brooke) in the 4th season of the BBC’s Sherlock, but Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) came first. Springer’s Enola made her splash in the 2006 middle-grade book The Case of the Missing Marquess (upon which the new movie Enola Holmes is based) which makes her the reigning champ of secret Holmes siblings, at least in the 21st century. Are there other secret Holmes siblings? What about the Holmes parents? Did Sherlock or Mycroft have any children of their own? read article