Apologies, readers and other friends of Burbanked. I haven’t been around these parts much lately. Let me explain why.
Several months ago, my boss and I had a discussion about the company, the economy, and the overall outlook for the future. The bottom line was that my position was going to be eliminated. I’ve been given [...]

Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery [...]

From Star Trek to Get Smart; from The Day the Earth Stood Still to Friday the 13th; from planned remakes of everything from The Karate Kid to Arthur to Romancing the Stone to A Nightmare on Elm Street, this past year has seen the completion or the launching of movie remakes at previously unimagined levels. [...]

So here I am celebrating Burbanked’s third birthday and it occurs to me that my chances of getting an actual present for this occasion are mighty slim. Seriously, no one I know truly celebrates blog-birthdays outside of their own sites and each time I bring it up with friends and family I just get a [...]

Three years. That’s actually a longer commitment than I’ve given some jobs I’ve had, so I hope you’ll allow me a small amount of pride to slip through here.
Blogging’s gotten a bit tougher for me this year, primarily because of the new job I started this past March. It’s kept me extremely busy, and it’s [...]

Wowie! Matt Holmes at the excellent Obsessed With Film site has taken temporary leave of his senses in inviting me to post a weekly column, and my first piece can be seen there now.Matt and all of his contributors do an excellent job of providing insight and critique into the world of film, and OWF [...]

Actual conversation in the Burbanked house tonight: I was watching the 1971 Dirty Harry on AMC, and the movie had reached the sequence in which the Scorpio killer is sending Harry running all over the city in order to drop the ransom money. Mrs. Burbanked enters the room and sits down.

MRS. B
What’s this?
ME
Dirty Harry.
MRS. B
Oh.

She’s [...]