by Pat Wong | Dec 7, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt It is the 75th anniversary of a day that changed the...
by Pat Wong | Oct 29, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“Oh you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard. 50,000 Romans watching every movement of your sword, willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike, and the noise afterwards, it rises, rises like…like a storm, as if you were the Thunder God himself.”...
by Pat Wong | Sep 2, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong, Pop Culture
“We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Willy Wonka When I heard the news of Gene Wilder’s passing, I immediately thought of his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), which is the film...
by Pat Wong | Aug 18, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Pat Wong, Pop Culture, Television
Lightning has struck twice. Twenty years after the first Pokémon phenomenon, Pokémon mania has invaded the world again. In fact, Pokémon Go has literally put Pokémon into the real world… well sort of. The augmented reality technology utilized by the app is a game...
by Pat Wong | Jun 24, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Movies, Pat Wong
“Look, I really don’t think they flew 90 billion light years to come down here and start a fight. Get all rowdy.” – Captain Steven Hiller Independence Day (1996), also known as ID4, is one of the iconic science fiction, B level, action films from my childhood...
by Pat Wong | Jun 16, 2016 | Featured, Movies, Pat Wong, Sports
“This was supposed to be the fight that Muhammad Ali was ended. Supposed the myth that Muhammad was gonna fall! Supposed to be my destruction! Well, they miscalculated. They misjudged. They got it wrong!” – Muhammad Ali In the movie Gladiator, Maximus addresses his...
