Imagine a stand-up comic pulling into a very small and what appears to be a very tired town to perform what seems to be, oh, his umpteenth-thousandth routine in front of a room (maybe) full of pe...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/04/19/life-turns-sad-and-funny-in-international-falls/
It’s been 33 years since Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall fooled so many of us by playing not only the Prince and his main sidekick making the trip over from Africa but a whole bunch of savory and...
Life is not going well for Greg. This we know when we meet him in his work office, ignoring his work phone while answering his cell to apologize for personal wrongdoings to his daughter. Once his...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/03/22/bliss-comes-with-many-wrinkles-for-owen-wilson-selma-hayek/
The stars were not always shining on those that made the blues back in the 1920s. The hard life for Black music makers takes the deserved spotlight in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the fan...
The name comes up often in our day when people talk about high-tech cars that I am quite sure will remain forever out of my financial grasp. It also echoes when the ideas that make these sorts of...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/03/08/ethan-hawke-stews-with-big-ideas-stifled-in-tesla/
Imagine if you will having a quite comfy management job in Miami and then being told you’re being sent to a faraway factory to see if products can be realigned, union contracts can be adjusted,...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/03/01/its-hard-to-win-them-over-when-youre-new-in-town/
I must admit right from the first sentence that my soft spot for Emma Roberts’ work grew from her gotta-grow-up role as Amy in the 2013 not-what-you’d-think from the title funny little drama ...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/02/22/they-learn-to-make-more-than-pizza-in-little-italy/
Movie buffs most likely are way, way deep into the streaming platform search lists in the hopes for that unearthed gem by this point of the second winter of our COVID-19 isolation. We are in our ...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/02/15/the-only-living-boy-in-new-york-hurdles-over-eccentric/
Imagine, if you will, Eddie Murphy in a role that is totally absent of any of the sly wisecracking that brought him to fame on the small and big screens back in the day. Meet Mr. Church ...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/02/08/in-mr-church-eddie-murphy-cooks-up-everything-but-humor/
Sylvie seems fairly satisfied with her life sitting behind the counter in her father’s pretty hip New York City music store, where she can harbor her hopes of somehow, some way fulfilling her d...
https://markbialczak.com/2021/02/01/sylvies-love-hits-the-right-chords/