Posts tagged The Mary Sue
MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube Channel Talking "The Brutalist"

Every year, there seems to be one (or more) big Oscar contender that completely misses my heart, mind, and understanding. I see them and I don’t understand their universal acclaim and often-overinflated hype. For 2024, the highest of those movies is The Brutalist, starring Best Actor Oscar frontrunner Adrien Brody. He is excellent, but the rest of the movie is not. I was chuffed enough to go on the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel hosted by Ian Simmons to speak on it.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube Channel Talking "Nosferatu"

Debuting in the darkest recesses of multiplexes and arthouse theaters this week is Robert Eggers’s monochromatic remake of Nosferatu, paying homage to the 1922 German silent film he and many others love dearly. Ian was ready to talk about it. So, for the special holiday, yours truly appeared as “Santa Critic” from “The North Pole of Elmwood Park” and joined Ian, Jeff York of The Establishing Shot and Pipeline Artists, Annie Banks of The Mary Sue, The Blonde in Front’s Cati Glidewell, and Mike Crowley of You’ll Probably Agree for the dais.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube Live Talking "Godzilla: Minus One"

This week, the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel hosted by Ian Simmons got me excited because he finally caught up to what stands as my personal favorite movie of 2023, namely Godzilla: Minus One now available to stream on Netflix. Ian and I were joined by Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, special guest and kaiju modelmaker Bill Gudmundson, and a returning Annie Banks from We’ve Got This Covered and The Mary Sue.

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