. a blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Re-Watching The Dark Knight in IMAX Even though it was criminally shut out of both the Best Picture and Best Director categories for this year’s Oscars, it still doesn’t alter the fact that if you haven’t seen The Dark Knight in IMAX, then this re-release is cause [...]

. a blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING My Bloody Valentine 3D What exactly about My Bloody Valentine 3D is there not to like? Not only does it promise three dimensional gouging, stabbings and the occasional beheading, but it also features an appearance by the legendary Tom Atkins (who I wrote about last week) and [...]

. a blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The NFL Playoffs: The Pittsburgh Steelers vs. The San Diego Chargers Three quick questions: Which NFL team has the best dynasty ever? Is responsible for the single greatest play in sports history? And has the most loyal fan base? Answer: It’s not the San Diego Chargers. While [...]

A blogumn by Ryan Dixon . On the Exegesis of the Soul or: Why I Love Beef Stick   FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Hickory Farms Beef Stick “May I try a free sample?” After I spoke those six simple words, a smiling gray-haired clerk at a Hickory Farms Christmas stand set up in one of the many [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirit by Les Standiford We’ve seen Shakespeare in Love, now get ready for Dickens In Debt. That’s the starting point in this fascinating non-fiction work that chronicles how, after [...]

A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING George C. Scott in A Christmas Carol You can have Seymour Hicks, Alastair Slim, Albert Finney, Mickey Mouse and the Muppets, I’ll take George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. The elaborate 1984 TV movie that starred the always cantankerous (and often drunk) Mr. Scott arrived upon the Dixon [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING Dry Storeroom #1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey Was there ever a place more magical than a museum? In the middle of my birthday party evolutionary chart, where fast food restaurant playgrounds begat roller skating rinks, swimming pools, movie theaters and, [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING “Have You Seen…?” The Jews had Moses to deliver the Ten Commandments, and those of us who worship at the altar of cinema have David Thomson. The author of the magisterial The New Biographical Dictionary of Film has given us a holy treat with the release of [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCE ANTICIPATION Ghost-to-Ghost on Coast to Coast While it seems like truly bizarre radio programs can now only be found while driving deep into the desert or hiking through the dueling banjos territory of Appalachia, the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (airing 10PM-2AM, six nights [...]

. A blogumn by Ryan Dixon FIERCELY ANTICIPATING The Original Faces of Death: 30th Anniversary Edition Before the internet allowed us to watch footage of people being mauled by animals for free,  any aspiring video age Percival had to search high and low for quality smut, and there was no relic so highly prized as [...]