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Tennessee Filmmakers Accent the Nashville Film Festival

Tennessee filmmakers young and old from across the state strut their stuff as the 57th Annual Nashville Film Festival premieres show off local talent. Celebrating the art of film, music and culture, the Nashville Film Festival was originally founded in… Continue Reading →

Coyote vs. Acme Banks on Second Chances

Second chances are powerful things. Receiving another opportunity to right a past mistake or failure can create huge positive repercussions in one’s life. While not everybody or everything deserves a second chance, for the most part, they can be valuable… Continue Reading →

September 13, 2026

Buddy: Too Many Cooks, Too Much Blood and One Angry Unicorn

I was in my teens when Barney & Friends began airing on PBS, so I was not exactly the show’s target audience. Barney was mostly the butt of jokes among my high school friends. I understood that the show was… Continue Reading →

August 30, 2026

The 2026 #HauntLife Midyear Awards: The Good, the Bad and the Backrooms

Last year, I introduced the #HauntLife Midyear Movie Missteps Awards, a completely unnecessary ceremony honoring the movies that confused, disappointed or irritated me during the first half of 2025. It was both petty and therapeutic in a way. It was… Continue Reading →

August 9, 2026

Blind Cop 2 is the Sequel Nobody Asked for… and That’s the Joke

When I was in high school, I worked at Video Quest, a small video rental store in my hometown. This was back before streaming services put thousands of movies at your fingertips. If you wanted to watch a movie, you… Continue Reading →

June 8, 2026

Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma is Unhinged

I have worked in cybersecurity long enough to know that most people do not think much about digital security until something goes horribly wrong. Passwords, banking apps, fraud alerts and multi-factor authentication are just everyday annoyances until suddenly somebody loses… Continue Reading →

May 31, 2026

Mortal Kombat in the 21st Century

If the mere mention of Mortal Kombat doesn’t immediately bring back fond flashbacks to the days of coin-op arcades, Mortal Monday of 1993 or the Immortal’s “Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) Song,” well… you’re not me. As someone who lived through… Continue Reading →

May 20, 2026

Send Help Is Proof That I Would Not Survive Anything

Rachel McAdams screams in pain while covered in blood in the film Send Help

There was a period of time, years ago, where I became completely convinced that I could win the TV show, Survivor. This confidence made absolutely no sense. I was already an out-of-shape man with a bad back, colorblind and the… Continue Reading →

May 11, 2026

Buffet Infinity Captures Something Genuinely Unsettling

I was maybe 10 years old when I stumbled onto late-night cable TV. Not the stuff my parents wanted me watching, the weird margins of programming that existed between midnight and 4 a.m. Infomercials bleeding into public access. Commercials that… Continue Reading →

April 24, 2026

Pizza Movie: All Crust, No Pepperoni

I have always believed there are two types of high-school experiences. There are the ones you see in movies, where everyone is always cool, effortlessly social and somehow always at the right party. And then there are the rest of… Continue Reading →

April 6, 2026

Geek Culture, Zombies... and Other Monsters

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