by Ted McLoof | Mar 12, 2014 | Featured, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof, Television
“This plot, as it stands, could supply the material for complacent stupidity—a formula sitcom with one of the Culkin kids blinking cutely,” wrote the late Roger Ebert of the film version of About a Boy back in 2002. And he was correct, though I highly doubt he was...
by Ted McLoof | Mar 10, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Social, Ted McLoof
Last Sunday’s Best Animated Feature winner, Frozen, has been making its mark since its release on November 27th of last year. It’s already capped a billion dollars worldwide. It’s gotten crazy-good reviews, hailing it as a return to at the very least the early ‘90’s...
by Ted McLoof | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured, Rooker-made, Social, Ted McLoof
The following is a published piece from a fellow Rooker, Ted Mcloof. You can read the entire piece at the link below. Enjoy. A prospective student visits to find out whether he wants to attend our program. I don’t meet him. He’s only gone three weeks when Jax...
by Ted McLoof | Feb 14, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof
The most famous image from Say Anything… (indeed, one of the most famous images from modern American cinema) is that of John Cusack adorning a trench coat and a Clash t-shirt, holding a boom box aloft, his face stony and purposeful as he stands in front of a blue...
by Ted McLoof | Feb 3, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Social, Ted McLoof
How do you even respond to something like this? I was prepared to write something of an elegiac introduction, but I came up short. What’s the angle you go for? Compare-and-contrast? Maximillian Schell died this weekend too, but he was 86…does that make his death less...
by Ted McLoof | Jan 20, 2014 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Ted McLoof
We are spoiled. Anyone who thinks it’s pointless to go to the movies anymore simply isn’t paying attention (or at least reminds me of Louis CK’s impression of useless twenty year olds complaining about technology that’s been made for them, without having done...
