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QUINTESSENTIAL ARTIST/ACTIVIST, SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER/WRITER, JOHNNY CLEGG, MAKES HIS FINAL JOURNEY
South African singer and songwriter Johnny Clegg, one of the few white artists to openly confront the apartheid government in the late…
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The Muppet Movie
“A frog and a bear, seeing America!” -Fozzie Bear, The Muppet Movie There was a time, not too long ago, when the…
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Pet Sematary (1989)
Spoilers for all three Pet Sematary films abound throughout this review. Read on, if you dare. TFH Guru Mary Lambert‘s excellent, intense…
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Lords of Chaos
Writer/director (and former Bathory drummer) Jonas Åkerlund’s new black metal murder dramedy Lords of Chaos has really stuck with this critic since I…
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Misery
Author’s Note: Some spoilers populate this review, because it’s impossible to thoroughly appraise Misery without unpacking some of the film’s more macabre elements. The…
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Music and Stories – Reckless Youth Pt. 3
If you could travel back in time and see me during the summer of ’68, you would not see any noticeable differences…
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Music & Stories: Israel ’66 – Pt. 2
OK, I’ll just say it, this was one of the best summers of my life. What’s happened so far? I had graduated…
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Music & Stories: Israel ’66
PERSPECTIVE. Writing and telling these stories has given me perspective and an appreciation of why my story unfolded the way it did.…
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Reckless Youth – Part 2
Chapter 7, Part 2 of Music & Stories, “Reckless Youth” Today we’ll delve more deeply into the three musketeers of my reckless…
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Reckless Youth
Chapter 7, Part 1 of Music & Stories, “Reckless Youth” In writing all these chapters beginning with Chapter 6, I was surprised…
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My Least Favorite Year
Chapter 6 of “Music & Stories” is “My Least Favorite Year.” From Spring of 1965 to Spring 1966, I was in free…
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The Halloween Film Power Rankings
John Carpenter’s immortal 1978 Halloween was never built to have one sequel, let alone eight (plus two movies in a remake series). Though it…
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The Halloween Timeline Power Rankings
Happy Halloween, Trailers From Hell miscreants! The latest Halloween film premiered stateside on October 19th to stellar reviews and brisk business, proving…
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Fright Night
Why does Fright Night, the 1985 vampire teen horror-comedy curio, endure as a great movie long past its expected sell-by date? Because…
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Music & Stories – Going Electric
Welcome to “Going Electric,” Music & Stories Chapter 5, Part 2. This story is one of the main reasons that I wanted…
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Evil Dead II
With Halloween fast approaching, this writer wanted to unpack one of his all-time favorite horror movies, Evil Dead II (a.k.a. Evil Dead 2:…
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Music and Stories – Hydrogen Jukebox
“Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?” The first half of a two-parter: Chapter…
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Music & Stories: FLHS – Bridgemen Forever
I was in the Class of 1966 at Fort Lee High School. Our team’s nickname was The Bridgemen because of our proximity…
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Tribute to Marty Balin
I couldn’t let the passing of Marty Balin go by without playing all my Jefferson Airplane LPs. They were one of the…
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Fathers and Sons
The title of the series for this chapter should be “Movies & Stories” because I share a lot of the movies that…
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The 2 B’s – Bar Mitzvah & Beatles
Most of this episode takes place from 1961 to 1964, three years that shaped a lot of the world view of this…
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Origins
A couple of months back, I posted a Facebook video in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Fillmore East and I…
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The Who at The Fillmore
I was very gratified by all the positive responses to my monologue of Fillmore East memories. While I was organizing my notes…
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Fillmore East
50 years ago, the Fillmore East opened. I was there the day it opened as a customer and many times after that…
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Aretha
Like everyone else I know, I’ve been thinking about Aretha Franklin, and how much her music meant to me. There has been…
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King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
TFH Fearless Leader Joe Dante very astutely tip-toes around Larry Cohen’s stylistic filmmaking identity early on in King Cohen: The Wild World…