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Celluloid Heroes: Episode Eight

Celluloid Heroes Episode Eight: Time Bandits is now live on Apple, Spotify, Youtube, and The Longbox Crusade. Links will be posted here once I’m back from my holiday. Time Bandits is a very special, very important film to me. It … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Seven

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Seven – Dragonslayer is now available to stream on Spotify: This month’s installment is a special double-sized episode, in which I’m joined in the back half of the show by filmmaker, author, and former managing editor of … Continue reading →

Taking Me Back

First, Happy Birthday to the great sovereign nation of Canada, home of my birth, and the place I spent the first 35 years of my life (34 if you count that brief disastrous year in North Carolina). It may not … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Six

Celluloid Heroes Episode Six is now available for streaming. In this episode I cover two films: Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) and Richard Donner’s and Richard Lester’s Superman II (1981). Seen three years, two decades, and two cities apart, Supermans (or … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Five

Celluloid Heroes Episode Five – The Black Hole – is available for your listening pleasure! Journey with me back to the final Christmas holiday season of the 1970s and the highly anticipated big budgeted space saga of 1979 that *wasn’t* … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Four

A new month, a new Celluloid Heroes update, this time taking us to the summer of 1979 and the Canadian theatrical release of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. This movie would of course spawn two seasons of the cult … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes Episode Four: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

A new month, a new Celluloid Heroes update, this time taking us to the summer of 1979 and the Canadian theatrical release of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. This movie would of course spawn two seasons of the cult … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Three

The Celluloid Heroes book I have been writing for the last several years has been an all-encompassing, all-engrossing project. The first draft of it clocked in at roughly 180,000 words. The current iteration sits comfortably at 140,000. But during the … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode Two

Well, so far so good. The Celluloid Heroes Podcast launched last month, January 2025 with two episodes – a Prologue Episode in which I lay out the intentions of this podcast: And the official first episode, detailing my experience seeing … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes: Episode One

So when January began I had every intention of just posting links to the first episode of The Celluloid Heroes Podcast. Then the great David Lynch had the audacity to ascend to a higher spiritual plane, prompting the most recent … Continue reading →