At first, I’d never been more proud. There we were, my three boys and me, strolling through the supermarket when two-year-old Michael Corleone blurts out:

Daddy, daddy, LOOK. Indiana Jones! Indiana Jones!

My heart swells with that rare rush of fatherly love and movie dork – what kind of a brilliant young son do I have who [...]

Of course a lot is being said and written about the passing of comic actor Harvey Korman at the age of 81. And from what I’ve seen so far, much of the movie bloggers’ tributes rightly focus on Korman’s terrific turn as Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles.
But as it happened, I never [...]

I’m about to lead off with a spoiler, so if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t read this article.
There’s a scene right after the extended opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that, I thought, was the best, most perfect jumping-off point for what was to come and I was [...]

Special warm and manly hugs to Matt at Culture Kills…wait, I mean cutlery who has bestowed a mega-coveted SUPER TRANSMUNDANE Award upon your humble servant Burbanked. Matt’s honoring my mashed-up movie blockbuster trailer Regurgitated, currently clocking in at YouTube with a staggering 473 views! Yow! Head over to CKWIMC to see this year’s other [...]

I woke up just after 4:30 am on January 17th, 1994, on the floor of the one bedroom in my Burbank one-bedroom apartment. This was not the result of the previous night’s drunken binging or Hollywood partying with producers, starlets and celebrities, but rather a function of the rather sizable earthquake that had hit the [...]

I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority on this one, but Burbank, California, is the most fascinating place I’ve lived in. What I truly loved about it was the way that it sits in the middle of about half of all the major moviemaking studios in L.A.; it’s seemingly the cradle of a one-industry town’s [...]

What a bummer.

“But then they proceed to vomit out a movie so thoroughly incomprehensible and complicated that it can do nothing but bore/ alienate/ lobotomize kids everywhere. I will not attempt to summarize it simply because it cannot be understood. I defy anyone to completely explain this film that isn’t either the Wachowski Brothers or [...]