With ”A Charlie Brown Christmas” having already made its first appearance of the season, and ABC Family’s ”25 Days of Christmas“ well underway, we’re into TV holiday special territory once…
Muppets
Summer movies usually demand a great suspension of disbelief. They’re heavy on special effects and deal with outlandish situations, whether superheroes and sci-fi or wacky gross-out extreme comedy. There is,…
Pete Chianca pays tribute to films about cleaning up elephant poop. Wait, what?
50 years after his passing, Walt Disney’s legacy is remembered through the happy songs his company has given to the world.
If you’ve been to the movies lately, you know it’s hard to find a theater that doesn’t contain someone being a complete jerkface — whether they’re texting or talking or…
All the songs on this mixtape are either performed by fictional musical acts or fictional characters performing as a musical act. I apologize that the sound isn’t better on some…
One of the most fondly remembered Muppets from the early days of Sesame Street was Roosevelt Franklin. He was voiced by Matt Robinson, who played Gordon on the show. (In…
As you know if you follow my quasi-weekly column ”Way Out Wednesday,” I also run a blog called ”Way Out Junk.” (It is, in fact, what got me the Popdose…
When I was younger, I loved Sesame Street, especially the Muppets. I still have cassette tapes (that’s audio, not video) of bits from the show. I’d spend the night at…
It’s rare that I get a chance to talk to the artists whose music I steal each week, so when the opportunity arises I seize it. Recently, word got out…
Pete Chianca is back with an all-new, all-alien edition of Farkakte Film Flashback, featuring five of the best (and best worst) interstellar visitors in cinematic history.