Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! And this year, I'll be looking at the 400-year old scourge of piracy...the Ghost Who Walks himself, the Phantom! (It was supposed to be last year, but I didn't have enough time to do this justice.)
 Geez, it's been years since I've done an INCspotlight special. And this is one I've been planning from the beginning: the books that turned Don Alonso Quixana into Don Quixote de la Mancha.   (Original version posted on Channel Awesome on June 16, 2016) I'm trying something different on the INCspotlight today - a mini-roundup of various retro and classic arcade games I've enjoyed playing over the years.   (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on October 30, 2015) Well, I'm back! Just in time for the INCspotlight's two-year anniversary! And as I did for my last anniversary post, I wanted to spotlight something - or in this case, someone - who has had a huge impact on my life.   (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on September 7, 2015) The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows!   (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on February 9, 2015) A few years back, I came across something online about the 100 greatest film directors of all time, and I was disappointed that two names weren't included: Steven Spielberg and Michael Curtiz. (I don't remember the source.) Some may argue that Spielberg is too commercial or sentimental for such a list, disregarding his more serious works such as The Color Purple (1985) and Schindler's List (1993) - Lincoln (2012) hadn't come out yet at the time. (I don't agree with anti-Spielberg sentiment, but I can understand it to some degree.) But Michael Curtiz? The guy who directed some of the greatest films of Hollywood's Golden Age? I was appalled. So this week, I'm going to do a shout-out to the director behind some of the greatest (as well as some of my favorite) classic Hollywood films.   (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on July 28, 2014) Charlie Chaplin was a genius. Nobody can make you laugh and cry at the same time the way he could.   (Originally posted on February 10, 2014) There have been a number of famous cinematic couples over the years that have won the hearts of film-goers: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and of course, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences couldn't get enough of Flynn's cinematic adventures, nor of his wonderful chemistry with de Havilland. Over a period of six years, they would co-star with each other in eight films, and the evolution and unfortunate deterioration of their working relationship is itself worthy of a movie. Since I'm not in a position to make such a movie, I'm going to make it the focus of this week's INCspotlight. (There's actually a book about the Flynn/deHavilland that's either in progress or that has been recently published that I wouldn't mind getting my hands on.)  |
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