Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 77: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and special guests Manic Expression member Jim Bevan and Lily from Dom and the Chapel of Church discuss about the newest movie in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions. Warning: major spoilers ahead!

Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 44: Back to the Future's 30th Anniversary

In the longest episode of Casual Chats to date, Patricia, Kevin, Kevin's friend James, Manic Expression founder James Walsh, and members Some Jerk from Boston, The Rowdy Reviewer, and AlextheD discuss about one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time, Back to the Future, in honor of its 30th anniversary.

Check out Some Jerk's links down below
http://www.manic-expression.com/category/blogs/s/some-jerk-from-boston/
http://www.manic-expression.com/category/videos/podcasts/what-did-i-just-watch/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgPHolmkK8hFQEE70rHeQtA/feed

Check out The Rowdy Reviewer's links down below
http://rowdyc.com
https://www.patreon.com/RowdyCProductions?ty=h
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyCMoore
https://twitter.com/RowdyCReviewer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKJu41G0DssnBNRa_x_h0pA

Check out That Longed Haired Creepy Guy's links down below
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqjZ0OJvyk7k5NEtPev_MA
https://twitter.com/TLHCG
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00RYIA9HK

Check out AlextheD's links down below
http://www.manic-expression.com/category/blogs/a/alex-and-his-pen/
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA5n8gDjwBYptA4iP51ZxvA
https://www.facebook.com/pinheadsfanpage
https://twitter.com/AlextheD

Check out James' links down below
http://www.manic-expression.com/category/blogs/j/james-corner/
http://www.manic-expression.com/category/videos/j-videos/james-corner-videos/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD67FxsfDTfmSm57kISYGlg

Book Review: We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy

Back to the Future has become one of the most iconic and memorable movies of the 1980's and has led up to one of the most well regarded trilogies in cinema history alongside the Star Wars trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Dark Knight trilogy. This July will mark the first movie's 30th anniversary and a new book has been released to give you behind the scenes look into the films in the form of We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines. We at Old School Lane have interviewed Caseen before. Click here to read our first interview. Click here to watch episode 31 of Casual Chats to listen to our second interview.



This marks his third book he's written behind Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse and A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic, but the first one published by Penguin Publishing Company, the same company that published Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age by Mathew Klickstein. But no need to fret, for Gaines' narrative of weaving in over 500 hours of interviews with multiple people from the movies such as Bob Zemekis, Bob Gale, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, and many more hasn't been lost. It's just as intriguing and captivating as ever with each chapter telling a story ranging from the struggles of Bob Zemekis and Bob Gale getting started in their careers, the struggle of trying to make Eric Stolz work as Marty McFly before being replaced by Michael J. Fox, never before heard stories about the makings of the movies, and what happened afterwards. It even takes some time to discuss about the Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios (which is still open in Japan. Lucky) and the more recent game made by TellTale Games.



Now unlike Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse, in which there was no book or information about the TV series outside of the behind the scenes features on the DVDs or A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic in which it had the behind the scenes features on the DVD as well as a TV Guide special, the Christmas Story museum. and a few documentaries, Back to the Future is very well documented with not only a ton of behind the scenes features on the DVDs and Blu-Ray releases, but there has also been a book about Back to the Future already. It may be a little bit hard to persuade the hardest of hardcore Back to the Future fans to check the new book out, but We Don't Need Roads has enough of new stories that seasoned veterans of the trilogy will learn about as well as a great start for people just getting into the trilogy for the first time and want to dive more into the lore of one of the greatest movies of all time. If you're interested in purchasing the book, you can purchase it at any retail book stores, online in Amazon, an eBook on Kindle, or as an audio book at Audible. I highly recommend that you check it out, especially if you're a movie buff or an 80's pop culture enthusiast.

If you want to know more about the book, check out our newest interview with Caseen Gaines on Casual Chats.

That's all for now. Tune in next time as the next episode of Casual Chats will be about the Back to the Future franchise in honor of its 30th anniversary. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.

-Patricia

Old School Lane Casual Chats Episode 31: Ghostbusters' 30th Anniversary

In this episode of Casual Chats, Patricia and Kevin alongside Manic Expression members James, Alexthed, Gurning Chimp, and Infamous Jak discuss about the Ghostbusters franchise in honor of its 30th anniversary. They talk about the first 2 movies, the 2 animated series, the recent video game, and their opinion on Ghostbusters 3.

Movie Review: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

To conclude 2004, we review another Nickelodeon movie. While the majority of the Nickelodeon movies made a decent amount of money, most of them have not been critically acclaimed with the exception of the first two Rugrats movies and The Wild Thornberrys. Similar to when Nickelodeon released Clockstoppers to get into the craze of Spy Kids, the next live action movie would try to get into the fantasy genre. With the major successes of the Harry Potter series, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Narnia series becoming acclaimed movies making millions of dollars, Nickelodeon Movies tried to do the same time with making a movie based on a book series. The book series they chose was the fantasy series A Series of Unfortunate Events written by Lemony Snicket.

 

The stories were about three children with special gifts named Claus, Violet, and Sunny Bauderlaire who move in with their relative, an evil count named Olaf, after their parents died. Olaf adopted them just to steal their inheritance. Working together, they traveled to various places and stayed with numerous people only with unfortunate things happening. Nickelodeon Movies had bought the rights to Lemony Snicket's books in 2000 to make it into a movie series. Over the years, there were problems with budget and script rewrites. Eventually, the movie came out on December 17, 2004. Does Nickelodeon Movies finally make a critically acclaimed movie or did they fall on the short end of a popular phase in fantasy movies? This is Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.





The movie starts with a narration by Jude Law talking about three children named Claus Bauderlaire (played by Liam Aiken), and his sisters Violet (played by Emily Browning), and Sunny (played by twins Kara and Shelly Hoffman) moving in with a relative after their parents died in a mysterious fire. They first meet up with their new caretaker, a man named Count Olaf (played by Jim Carrey). The first few minutes in entering the house, Count Olaf reveals to the kids that he doesn't like them and is only using them so that when Violet turns 18, he'll steal their family's fortune. As time went on, the children try to scheme on how they can be able to prevent Olaf from stealing the inheritance. One day when Olaf is driving, he gets the car stuck in a railroad track while the train is coming. The children found a way to escape while the train hit the car with Olaf in it.




Later on, the kids and Olaf end up in court with Olaf and the judge sentenced the kids to live with another relative. They ended up living with their uncle Montgomery Montgomery (played by Billy Connelly) in Peru. While living in happiness, a mysterious man named Mr. Stephano visits the house. The next day, they found Uncle Monty dead by a poisonous viper. However, Sunny finds out that the viper is very friendly and harmless and Claus and Violet claimed that Mr. Stephano did it. Mr. Stephano is none other than Count Olaf in a disguise and he disappears as soon as he was framed for murder. The next house they end up is in their aunt Josephine's (played by Meryl Streep) house in Lake Lacrymose. While settling down, the kids find pictures and newspaper and find out more about the fire that killed their parents. All of a sudden, a mysterious man named Captain Sham entered the house and offers them a ride on his ship. All of a sudden, a huge hurricane appeared and Captain Sham rescues the kids while leaving Aunt Josephine to die. It turns out that Captain Sham was Count Olaf once again and he gains the custody of them once again.



The final plan that Olaf tries to get the inheritance is performing a play involving him and Violet getting married on stage with a legal minister doing the wedding ceremony. It's up to Claus to try to rescue her before it's too late. While reading, he conducts a plan that involves with climbing in a tower and using the same item that Olaf used to start the fire that killed their parents to burn down the stage. The movie concludes with Olaf sentenced to suffer the same unfortunate events that the kids went through, followed up with life in prison. Eventually, Olaf escaped and disappeared without a trace. The kids then went back to their old mansion and finding a note written by their parents with a message of hope. In the end, they lived with another relative and had fortunate events.



When the movie first came out, it made $209 million dollars, taking the spot as the highest grossing Nickelodeon movie ever. However, it received mixed reviews. There were plans for a sequel to be released in 2008, but lack of interest with fantasy movies and the kids growing too old for their parts delayed the movie even more. There were talks of the sequel being stop motion, but as of now, there is no sequel coming out.

As for me, it's a mixed bag. While I did like some things about it, I didn't like some things about it. I loved the actors who portrayed Klaus, Violet, and Sunny, but I hated Jim Carrey as Count Olaf. The Count Olaf in the books was dark, sinister, and mean while Count Olaf in the movie was...goofy and over-the-top. They really should have casted someone else as Count Olaf because all I saw was Jim Carrey portraying as a goofy villain. Also the sets and music was pretty decent. It felt like watching a lighthearted Tim Burton movie. In fact, the movie's production designer Rick Heindricks, costume designer Colleen Atwood, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki were all involved in previous Tim Burton movies. While it may distract some people calling the movie a Tim Burton knockoff, I liked the designs and were one of the main highlights of the movie. The story was a bit uneven and the pace was unbalanced with some of it going too slow and others going too quickly. Some of the side characters weren't developed well and some scenes could have had a bit of cutting off to make the pace more even. Overall, while it's not a bad movie, there are so many other better ones to check out such as The Lord of the Rings movies and the Harry Potter movies. I would recommend those than watching this.

That's all for now. Tune in next time as we jump to 2005 with Dan Schneider's 3rd All That spinoff show Zoey 101.

 

Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.

-Patricia

Movie Review: Little Bear: The Movie

Around the 2000's, Nick Jr. decided to follow the same path of what Nickeloeon was doing a few years previously: movies. Around Christmas 2000, Nick Jr. had their first theatrical movie debut with The Little Bear Movie. 



Based on the Nick Jr. TV series and the books written by Else Holmelund Minerak, Little Bear is about the simple stories of a young bear cub named Little Bear and his numerous adventures alongside his parents and best friends. For how I feel about the TV series, I like it okay. It's simple, has nice animation, nice, calm orchestrated music, and sticks very close to the theme of the books. So how does the movie stand out? Let's check it out. Here's The Little Bear Movie. The movie starts off with a bear cub waking up finding himself all alone calling his mom and dad. While looking around the deep woods, he then learns that he's all alone. Meanwhile we see Little Bear getting ready to go on a camping trip with Father Bear. Little Bear is very excited to go out with Father Bear and he quickly finishes his packing.When fishing near a lake, Little Bear sees the bear cub from the beginning of the movie catching fish with his paw. He's having difficulty as he fell down and scared the fishes away. Little Bear finds it funny and joins alongside him not knowing that he was fishing like a bear.



The bear cub doesn't find it funny and walks away. Little Bear wanted to know more about him so he introduces himself. The bear cub simply introduces himself as Cub. He goes off where we also see his friend Little Moose. Little Bear follows them not knowing about the danger that lurked behind him with a mountain lion. Cub saves his life with Little Bear not having a clue to what was going on. Cub then realizes that Little Bear is not from the woods. Little Bear finds himself lost not knowing where Father Bear is. Cub helps Little Bear settle in the woods and make himself feel calm. Little Bear questions him on where his parents were. Cub tells him that he doesn't know where they are. He had been lost for a long time and has looked everywhere for them. Little Bear tells him that he'll take Cub home to his house the following day. When Little Bear and Cub walk over to the house, Father Bear find them heading towards the path and was worried sick about where his son was. Little Bear explained about Cub's problem and Father Bear decides to take Cub home to take care of him until they find his parents.



Cub isn't able to understand the indoor life of Little Bear with them cooking their food and sleeping in beds. Little Bear realizes that Cub doesn't feel at home so he decides to help find his parents. The next day, Little Bear's friends Duck, Cat, Hen, and Owl come over to play with Little Bear and are confused to seeing Cub. Little Bear explains that Cub is lost and needs to find his parents and they offer to help. As they search around the woods, the gang gets separated from one another. Little Bear, Cub, and Duck try to look around the deep woods for both Cub's parents and the separated group consisting of Owl, Hen, and Cat. They come across Little Moose and Cub's other friends Poppy and Pete, two foxes. They had seen where Cub's parents were so they follow them. Meanwhile Trouble, the mountain lion, sneaks in to try to eat Duck, but Little Bear comes and saves her life. Poppy and Pete then lead Cub's parents over to Cub and the movie ends with them reuniting.



Overall, the movie was okay. It was very nice, colorful, and had a calm, relaxing atmosphere. However, I find the pace to be a tad bit slow and the main villain to be underwhelming. But then again, it's a movie based on a pre-school show. It doesn't do anything preachy or awful. Kids nowadays would find it to be very boring and would want to tune into a more faster paced show, but I liked the Little Bear series okay. It's a nice relaxing refresher to stray away from the fast paced shows you would see like Yo Gabba Gabba! 

That's all for now. Tune in next time as we have a special interview with one of the voice actors from Little Bear. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.

-Patricia

Movie Review: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Around 2001, there were many changes when it came to the world of animation. People were getting into a brand new style of animation: CGI. There were a few cartoons, video games, and movies getting into this new style. It became increasingly popular when a fairly new company named Pixar were releasing CG animated movie such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Monsters Inc. Another company named Dreamworks were also making CG movies such as Antz and their newest movie Shrek. Nickelodeon knew that they had to keep up with the times. Around the 2000's, one man was working on shorts that would eventually become a huge franchise. His name was John A. Davis.
























Around the 80's, Davis was working on a script named Runaway Rocketboy about a boy who had a love for rockets. That script was delayed until the 90's when he decided to rename it to Johnny Quasar. He presented his reworked script to a CG company named SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on GRAPHics) where he would eventually meet his partner Steve Oedekerk. They worked together with coming up with shorts for this new script to air it on Nickelodeon. Eventually, they renamed it to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Similar to The Adventures of Pete & Pete and KaBlam!, the shorts became a huge hit. So much so that on December 21, 2001, there was a feature length film simply called Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

 

So does this movie still hold up after a decade later or has time not being kind for our boy genius? Here is Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. 

The movie starts in a secret government where an unknown item is entering the atmosphere. They send in their jets to find out what it is. What they find is Jimmy Neutron and Carl Wheezer heading to throw a homemade satellite to look for alien lifeforms. The spaceship isn't capable of going past the atmosphere so it ends up burning and with them falling. Jimmy and Carl activate their parachutes and land safely. They head over to school where show and tell is occurring. Jimmy is showing off his new invention: the shrink ray. It doesn't work and everyone is laughing at him, especially his school rival Cindy Vortex. After school, they hear about the grand opening of the theme park Retroland. They want to go, but can't since it's a school night. The cool kid in the school Nick Dean tells them to sneak out. Jimmy thinks it's a bad idea, but nonetheless convinces Carl and their other best friend Sheen Estevez to try to butter them up to take them out.



Jimmy's persistence doesn't work on his mother. Instead he gets punished and is sent to his room. Wanting to go to Retroland, he decides to sneak out. Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen have the time of their lives. Meanwhile in space, the satellite is picked up by an alien ship led by a kind named King Goobot. His assistant Ooblar activates the satellite and a video of Jimmy activates telling him about his parents. King Goobot finds Jimmy's parents delicious and heads over to Earth. Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen wish that there were no more parents to tell them what to do. The next morning, the kids find themselves alone with no parents and they start to celebrate. They party until the next day where they start missing them. Jimmy eventually finds out that the satellite he sent was picked up by the same aliens who kidnapped their parents.



The entire group of kids gathered together to built spaceships to head to the planet to get their parents back. While landing on the planet, they find out that their parents are being used to be fed by the aliens' god named Poltra. Thanks to the satellite that Jimmy sent, they were able to find the coordinates to find Earth and kidnap the humans. They're sent to prison feeling furious that Jimmy was the cause of this. Cindy cheers Jimmy and gets the confidence to rescue their parents before it's too late. Jimmy and the gang fight off the aliens and grab the controls to send their parents to safety. The aliens chase after them and Jimmy uses his shrink ray to make himself gigantic. He blows the alien ship away and they reign victorious. Jimmy apologizes with his parents and the movie ends in a happy note with everyone being safe.



When the movie first aired, it was a gigantic hit! The movie made over $100 million dollars, the second Nickelodeon movie to do so since The Rugrats Movie. It was even nominated for Best Animated Film in the Oscars that year, but it lost to Shrek. As much as I liked Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Shrek did deserve to win. As for how it holds up for today's modern audience, it's still really good. While the animation is a bit bulky, it's still colorful and bright. It's really funny, the characters are memorable, and the story was really original. While most people compare Jimmy to Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory, Jimmy acts more like a kid than a genius. That's actually really relatable and likable. That is until we hit the TV series. We'll talk about it another time. I highly recommend checking it out!

That's all for now. Tune in next time as we have a short, but special interview from one of the voice actors behind Jimmy Neutron. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Take care.

-Patricia

First Impressions: Escape from Planet Earth

Hey guys, welcome to another installment of First Impressions. Yes, I know, it's been a while since I've done one of these things. But I needed to write this down. 

I have recently seen the Disney movie Wreck-It-Ralph. What did I think of it? It was AMAZING!! I mean it, it is one of Disney's best movies I've seen in recent years. The concept was an amazing love letter to a hardcore video gamer like myself, the characters were all memorable, the voice actors did a fantastic job with their performances, the animation was beautiful, and the references are great. I felt that Disney is really taking note of the work that Pixar is doing with their movies because Wreck-It-Ralph feels like Toy Story mixed with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with video game characters. I felt like I was watching a Pixar movie with Wreck-It-Ralph and I was seeing a Disney movie with Brave.Even the cartoon short Paperman was incredible! It was brilliant, had fantastic black and white animation, and had a great charm to it. I'm hoping that this short will win for "Best Animated Short" in the Oscars as oppose to La Luna. I like them both, but Paperman blew me away! If you haven't seen Wreck-It-Ralph yet, what are you waiting for? Go see it now!



But we're not here to talk about Wreck-It-Ralph. I'm going to talk to you about one of the trailers I saw for an upcoming animated movie. I've seen movies that I was thrilled to see such as Oz: The Great and Powerful, Rise of the Guardians, and The Hobbit. But then the mediocre and unimpressing movies, in my opinion, showed up like The Smurfs 2, The Croods, Despictable Me 2, and a kid with a dinosaur that I don't really remember. The last trailer I saw before going into Paperman is the movie I'm going to be talking about. It's called Escape from Planet Earth.



The movie is about two brothers from the planet Baab. One of them is a strong and admired space pilot named Scorch Supernova and the other one is the leader of the space station BASA named Gary. When BASA's chief tells Scorch of a dangerous mission involving a dark and dangerous planet, he decides to go there. He lands on the dark and dangerous planet, which happens to be Earth, and gets captured by the men from Area 51 led by a mean general named Shanker. When Gary finds out of Scorch's capture, he, his wife, and son work together to save Scorch and he meets up with some kooky aliens who are locked up in Area 51. 



Out of all the trailers I saw, I found this one to be the second most mediocre movie I've seen. The first being that dinosaur movie. It's a bit underwhelming, cliched, dumb, and predictable. I felt that I've seen countless movies like this and I'm not interested in seeing it. It sort of reminds of Planet 51, but in reverse. The man who is directing this movie worked on other movies such as Despicable Me and Horton Hears a Who, so immediately it doesn't sit with me that this is going to be good. There are a lot of good movies for kids that are coming out this year and next year that are going to unique and different and this one will be one of those movies that'll blend in with the crowd as nothing special.

Here's the trailer for your enjoyment. If you are thinking of seeing this movie or you're going to skip it, post it in the comments below. 

That's all for now. Hope to see you around Old School Lane soon. Thanks for reading.

-Patricia

Old School Lane's Nickelodeon Tribute: Standby: Lights, Camera, Action

As 1981 came to an end, there was one more change that Nickelodeon did before the new year began. A new logo and a new promo was introduced. For those who grew up watching Nickelodeon in the early to mid 80's, they would see this logo before every show would begin.



The logo was created by Lou Dorfsman and Bob Klein. Dorfsman did the new font and rainbow colored letters while Klein added the pinball. This logo lasted for over 4 years and at the time, it was the longest lasting logo that Nickelodeon ever had.

The year is 1982. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released in theaters and became one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Unknown actors and actresses such as Eddie Murphy, Angelina Jolie, and Hugh Grant make their first film debuts. Cheers, Late Night with David Letterman, and Knight Rider debuted on TV. Nickelodeon had released more new shows on their network. Some examples were shows like this:

Against The Odds was a show that focused on people who made a difference in their field of study such as Louis Pasteur and Marie Curie.Generally, these were inspirational takes of "everyday folks" overcoming huge odds in order to do so. As inspirational as the show sounded, nobody watched it. 1 out of 6 people actually watched Against The Odds. At the time, it was the lowest rated TV show on Nickelodeon. The show was cancelled in 1984.

Kids Writes was a show that had kids write down stories or songs and mail them to the actors known as the Magic Carpet Band. The best stories or songs would be acted on stage in front of a live audience. The title of the story or song, the kid's name and hometown would be shown before they performed.
Stories portrayed on Kids' Writes would often involve typical child fantasies such as space flight, monsters, and children becoming heroes to "save the day". Several stories featured devices known as "tickling boots", no doubt reflecting the pleasure young children associate with the act of being tickled. Some submissions became songs where Jim Mairs and Steve Riffkin wrote the music, mostly performed by Jim on guitar or piano. New episodes were produced from 1981 to 1983. During this period, the closing of each show included a voiceover from Mairs, requesting unique and original stories be contributed by the viewers. The request was removed when Kids' Writes ceased production in 1983; reruns were aired on Nickelodeon until 1987.


Now time for our feature presentation:



Pop Quiz? If you want to know information about the latest upcoming movie, how do you find out? Easy. You go online and go to the official movie website to learn more.



Or you can watch a program on TV that talks about the latest information about the movie of your interest.



Also, there's always talented reviewers on the Web that releases articles on the latest movies.



But let's just say you didn't have any of those options. Let's go back to the year 1982 where things like the Internet wasn't invented, Entertainment Tonight was a year old, VHS cassetes were still brand new, and Special Features didn't exist. How would you find out about the latest upcoming movie back then? Well, you could read about it in a newspaper or magazine. Or if you were a kid, you would watch the Nickelodeon educational program called Standby: Lights! Camera! Action!

The show was hosted by Leonard Nemoy, whom everyone knows as Spock from Star Trek. The show consisted on showing kids interviews and behind-the-scenes clips on the latest upcoming movies. A few examples of the movies that they showcased were Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, WarGames, Octopussy, and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom.



There were even segments from unknown to up-and-coming filmmakers that Leonard would interview. Take for example this interview that he did for an up-and-coming animator named Joey Ahlbum.

Today Joey is a famous animator known for his animation work in Nickelodeon and his drawing segments on Elmo's World in Sesame Street.





Standby: Lights, Camera, Action! was the #1 rated show on Nickelodeon in 1982. For kids who wanted to be filmmakers or for those who loved movies, then this show was for you. It took you behind the scenes of some fantastic movies that kids were interested in knowing about hosted by a guy that kids knew about. Leonard was informative, intelligent, and had a love for movies. He was the perfect host for a show like this. Overall, this was a very good show for kids and I would recommend checking it out. It's so much fun to look back at these now classic movies at a time when they were brand new and see the behind-the-scenes segments. Not to mention, it's hosted by Leonard Nemoy. Anything with him is always fun to watch.



That's all for now. Hope to see you around Old School Lane real soon. Take care.

-Patricia

Interview with Kevin Gugliemo about Collector

The other founder of Old School Lane, Kevin Gugliemo, is currently working on a new horror movie The Collector starring upcoming film actress Michelle Wilke and directed by Paul Zamarelli. The story about an attractive girl shrinking her childhood friends to doll size to no longer feel lonely is a indeed a great concept and a breath of fresh air compared to the slasher horror movies and supernatural thrillers of today. I called him today and had his first interview about the movie, the plot, and his passion of movies.

Patricia- Kevin, thank you for your time for this interview.

Kevin- Thank you, I’m really excited about it.

Patricia- So, you start filming the movie next week, huh?

Kevin- Yes, I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long and I’m glad it’s finally becoming a reality.

Patricia- Well, I’m excited for you. Here’s the first question, are you ready?

Kevin- Ready as I’ll ever be.

Patricia- Alright; at what age did you realize that you wanted to be a filmmaker?

Kevin- When I was in 5th grade, I had a teacher named Ms. Farrell who assigned the class to write an essay about what we wanted to be when we grew up. Other students said they wanted to be police officers, teachers, and doctors. But I wrote that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I love movies and I’ve always dreamed of making movies. My favorite movie as a kid was Who Framed Roger Rabbit and it’s still to this day, one of my favorites.

Patricia- What made you decide that your first movie would be a B horror movie?

Kevin- I’ve always loved horror movies. I love Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on
Elm Street, and many other slasher movies. I also love the Universal monster movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf-Man. I love B horror movies like Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and Village of the Giants.

Patricia- Who are your influences?

Kevin- Oh, wow. There’s so many people I respect and have a huge influence on me. Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Martin Scorcese, Quentin Tarantino, Bert I. Gordon, Roger Corman. But the one person who was such a huge influence on me was Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman. His hard work and dedication for bringing his character to life and his show Pee-wee’s Playhouse inspired me to be a filmmaker.

Patricia- For those who don’t know, can you tell us briefly what the movie is about?

Kevin- Sure; it’s about a beautiful woman named Jennifer who had gone through a really rough life. Her parents are divorced, her childhood friends have gone their seperate ways, and every boy she falls in love with only want to use her for sex. So she decides that she’s going to kidnap her friends, shrink them to doll size, and collect them. If they resist her, then she’ll torture them, stretch their arms and legs, and do anything she can to no longer feel lonely.

Patricia- Wow, where did you come up with that idea?

Kevin- It’s basically a sort of remake of the 1958 B movie, Attack of the Puppet People directed by Bert I. Gordon. But not too much of a remake that it rips it off.

Patricia- What can be expect from this movie?

Kevin- A lot of laughs, gore, blood, and violence. Also, you can expect great people. Michelle, the leading actress, is one in a million. She’s sweet, funny, and a great person to work with. The director, Paul, is great as well.

Patricia- What kind of music are you using for the movie?

Kevin- We haven’t decided on the music yet.

Patricia- (beep beep) Uh oh, you know what that means, Kev.

Kevin- Uh, no, I don’t

Patricia- That beeping sound means it’s time for a random one minute interview. I’m going to set the time for one minute and I’m going to ask a series of questions. You say the first thing that pops into your mind. Ready?

Kevin- I’m ready.

Patricia- Alright, here we go. What was the last movie you saw in the theatres?

Kevin- The Muppets.

Patricia- What food you wouldn’t eat for a million dollars?

Kevin- Bananas.

Patricia- Boxers, briefs, or boxer briefs?

Kevin- Boxers.

Patricia- What cartoon from your childhood would you like to see make a comeback?

Kevin- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Patricia- What was the last book you read?

Kevin- Art with Tim Burton.

Patricia- Time’s up. That’s all the time we have for today. Kevin, thank you so much for your time.

Kevin- Thank you. It was fun.

Patricia- The Collector is right now being filmed and will be coming out soon. If you would like to support Kevin and the movie, here’s a link to Kevin’s movie page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Collector/283675835010038

When it’s released, please check it out. It should be both scary and fun. Hope to see you around the Old School Lane. See you later.

-Patricia and Kevin