Month: January 2013

‘The Mattys’

TheMattys1And the MATTY for Best Supporting Actor goes to…

Who’s ready for another “Matty”? I can guarantee you, NOT the Town of Norwood. I think this town has had their fill of my shenanigans over the past 30 some odd years to last a millennia. I’ve left a footprint that cannot be easily scraped away. You couldn’t quickly sand blast off my “G.I. JOE” graffiti from the Jr. High North wall. And so what, I burned the swamp down a couple of times (four times). Just look at how thick and lovely it grew back in. Beautiful plumage. Now, it’s almost impossible for anyone to drink up there. The police should be thanking me because they don’t have to chase kids through those treacherous goat paths anymore. And if they try to run, they get stuck in the thorns. (You’re welcome.) Oh, and I stole a car when I was younger, but no one ever caught me… it’s at the bottom of New Pond on the St. Tim’s side. (I’m just kidding on that one… or am I?) Yep, there can only be one “Matty”, and that “Matty” is me. Continue reading ‘The Mattys’

“Zero Dark Thirty” is Zero Dark Dynamite.

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ZeroDarkThirtyThe theatre screen is completely black for the first two minutes of the film. All you can hear are air traffic controllers speaking to planes in the sky. Next, you hear the frantic phone calls from innocent souls trapped in the World Trade Center buildings. People are calling 911, screaming that they’re burning up. Family members (just like yours and mine) are talking to love ones, saying their last goodbyes. Some are begging emergency response teams to please help them. You hear technicians talking with the military, saying “This is not a drill, this is real life.” You hear them asking for help in the air, “Scramble some F16’s”… The United States is under attack on September 11, 2001.

You see none of this. You don’t see innocent victims jumping to their death. You don’t see the buildings come crumbling down. You don’t see people running for cover as a giant smoke cloud chases them through the New York City streets. And you don’t see fire fighters and police officers running to their deaths, in hopes of saving some innocent lives…. Yet, you see all of this. You see it all vividly in your mind, because we have all lived through this. We lived through the horror of 9/11.

And so begins the epic film, “Zero Dark Thirty.” Continue reading “Zero Dark Thirty” is Zero Dark Dynamite.

‘Django Unchained’

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DjangoUnchained“Django Unchained” is another masterpiece from the fabulous mind of Quentin Tarantino.

Quentin Tarantino has done it again. He has made yet another movie that I totally love. He has done this many times with me. As a director, he has only a handful of mainstream films, but some of the great ones include “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction” and my number one movie of 2009, “Inglorious Basterds.” He was also a “special guest director” on a cool movie named “Sin City” too. He did let me down though with the films “Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2″… and I look forward to being let down again when “Kill Bill: Volume 3” comes out. (Yup, I just read that it has been announced, which means pre-production is on the way.) I surely hope it doesn’t let me down, but I just didn’t dig the first two. Either way, I’ll be seeing it because it’s a Tarantino film. Continue reading ‘Django Unchained’