Articles and essays on 80s and 90s pop culture movies and entertainment from Spokesman Review and Coeur d’Alene Press columnist Tyler Wilson.
You didn’t ask, but I’m going to tell you anyway. The late great film critic Roger Ebert kept a regular column, “The Movie Answer Man,” to respond to all the questions he received from curious readers. The Coeur d’Alene Press doesn’t field quite as many film queries, but we love pretending to be the size […]
If you asked a critic: Summer softie and Disney desperation Read More »
We’re in the process of uploading Tyler’s 20+ years of movie and pop culture articles over here to Old Millennials Remember. The CDA Press Newspaper isn’t … the best at archiving or making it easy to find past articles. Here’s a sampling of some that we haven’t fully moved over yet. Enjoy! https://cdapress.com/news/2024/jan/27/if-you-asked-a-movie-critic-oscar-nominations-unstoppable-oppenheimer-more/ A ‘Marvels’
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We don’t even need to include Nick Fury, Frozone or Mace Windu to fill the list. Samuel L. Jackson is the best motherfucking actor working today.People don’t believe this for some reason. Nerds might say, “Oh, Benedict Cumberbatch is Cumber-terrific,” and that’s ridiculous because: a. “Cumber-terrific” is not a real word and 2. If anybody is Cumber-terrific,
11 Great Samuel L. Jackson performances between 2000’s “Unbreakable” and 2019’s “Glass” Read More »
By Tyler Wilson Originally published in Coeur Voice – April 2018 Singer Mickey Gilley got along just fine before the release of the 1980 John Travolta-Debra Winger film, “Urban Cowboy.” Gilley strung together a series of country hits throughout the 1970s, and he also co-owned Gilley’s, the massive honky-tonk in Pasadena, Texas that popularized the
On the Road Again with ‘Urban Cowboy’ Read More »
By Tyler Wilson Originally published in Coeur Voice – April 2018 Time to blast John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” from your tiny smartphone speaker, because the Major League Baseball season is here again. While most of the country becomes enthralled by the NCAA basketball tournament, baseball fanatics can barely wait for the 162-game, six-month season to
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By Tyler Wilson Originally published by The Spokesman Review, December 2017 Good Christmas movies warm the soul. They tap into a holiday spirit few of us can probably recreate in real life. In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a lifetime of kindness and self-sacrifice rewards George Bailey in the end. “A Christmas Story” captures the feeling
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The country’s most bitter rivalry escalated during the production of a little film called “The Fate of the Furious,” the 18th entry (probably) in the muscle-car-manly-muscles franchise. It’s in theaters today, and stars Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have been noticeably separated on the film’s massive publicity tour. The beef: Johnson got tired
Cage Match: Diesel versus The Rock Read More »
Tom Cruise’s sci-fi adventure, “Oblivion,” arrives on home video this week, and its story similarities to Pixar’s “WALL-E” has triggered another installment of America’s third favorite Coeur d’Alene Press recurring entertainment feature – Cage Match! The protagonists of both “Oblivion” and “WALL-E” are tasked with cleaning up the mess left by apocalyptic calamities. In “WALL-E,”
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Vampires, fire skulls and Katherine Heigl are responsible for an assortment of Dumpster-worthy movies in 2012. But consider the silver lining – many of the people involved in these train wrecks found success in other, better movies this year. So don’t cry for Channing Tatum or Abraham Lincoln until we run down the best movies
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Marilyn Monroe. J. Edgar Hoover. Margaret Thatcher. Three iconic figures in three notable biopics released last year. Let’s see what happens when we throw them into a cinematic steel cage match to the death. Move over, Katniss Everdeen. It’s the Iron Lady wielding an iron battle-axe. The Contenders Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in “My
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