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Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Spark, Our Man in Nashville Before watching Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, it’s best to have seen the movie about which this doc was made, specifically...
Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville Sometimes history repeats itself, in peculiar ways. At last year’s NIFF, I found myself drawn to one movie for no other reason than the...
Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville Sugarcane, the plant that yields sugar, is regularly burnt before the sugar is harvested. There are multiple reasons for this—it increases the yield of...
Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville GRAVEYARD SHIFT SHORTS 1—FRAYED In what Stephen King termed “The Land of Ago,” the feature film was not the only thing a viewer saw...
Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R Stevie Moore Nashville Film Festival coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville It is, after all, the Nashville Film Festival. There are going to be films relevant...
Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason Sparks Our Man In Nashville The argument goes something like this: the problem with blockbuster, big-budget, “popcorn movies”—or, as they’re usually called now, superhero movies—is that they are or...
This is part of the reruns series of guest posts by guest writer Jason Sparks LT. FRANK COLUMBO Peter Falk, “Columbo”, NBC, 1971-78; ABC, intermittently, 1990s-2000s It was an April day in 1906 when the RMS FREEDONIA...
This is part of the reruns series of guest posts by guest writer Jason Sparks LT. THEO KOJAK Telly Savalas, “Kojak”, CBS, 1973-78; ABC, 1989 IF YOU WORKED IN THE 11TH PRECINCT, MANHATTAN SOUTH, YOU eventually...
This is part of the reruns series of guest posts by guest writer Jason Sparks COL. SHERMAN T. POTTER Harry Morgan in M*A*S*H, 1972-1983, CBS Primogeniture is the word for it when the oldest male child inherits everything;...
This is part of the reruns series of guest posts by guest writer Jason Sparks PETE John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, 1975-1979, NBC ON A BRISK SATURDAY EVENING IN OCTOBER OF 1973, PETE...
