Search results for: “star wars”
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Disney Shuffles Blockbuster Release Dates
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Having a a huge company like Disney bankrolling your franchise must seem like a dream come true when you check your bank balance. It might start to get a bit more nerve wracking when your new parent starts tightening deadlines! I wonder how everyone feels when they actually start to push release dates back? I…
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Biography Should Be Written By An Acute Enemy
About five years ago I wouldn’t have been writing this. I’ve been an enthusiastic reader for as long as I can remember. My father was an avid reader and there were always books in the house. I was taught to read from an early age. I could read from, about, the age of three or…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #164 (May, 3rd, 2023)
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Happy Star Wars Day Everyone! It’s that time of year again! OK, it’s an arbitrary holiday, but it’s a bit of fun, and we’re all for a bit of fun here in RunPee Towers. In…
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RunPee Hub Of Hubs
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in HubHere in RunPee Towers we are known for our thousands of articles: reviews, essays, blockbuster predictions, and biographies. Then, when we get a few on a common topic we like to make a hub so that it is a bit easier to find all our words of wisdom. And now we have reached the point…
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May The Fifth Be With You
Many years ago I had a novelty calendar. The conceit of it was that every day of the year was a a holiday celebrated somewhere by some group of people. By claiming affinity with those groups you could claim every day of the year as a holiday. All it did was find obscure occasions to…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #164 (May, 3rd, 2023)
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in NewsletterRunPee Weekly Newsletter #163 (April 26th, 2023) The app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Happy Star Wars Day Everyone! It’s that time of year again! OK, it’s an arbitrary holiday, but it’s a bit of fun, and we’re all for a bit…
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Movie Review – Ghosted
Apple TV+’s latest offering is, apparently, something of a record breaker. The first two days saw 328,500 people watching Ghosted. Obviously that’s chicken feed compared to something like Avengers: Endgame but in the world of non-theatrical releases it is, apparently, quite a big deal. That’s way more than the first two days of other highly…
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Superman: The Movie – 45th Anniversary Rewatch
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Forty five years!!! One of the things about getting older is that there are so many anniversaries that keep popping up. Only last week one of my FaceBook memories was a posting I made about it being the 40th anniversary of the release of Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I remembered that being released!…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter #135 (October 12th, 2022)
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Happy Bond Day! Last week saw the sixtieth anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film…Dr. No. Yes, there had been incarnations of Bond between the release of the first novel and the…
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Best of British Biographies – Ewan McGregor
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in BiographyA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, a bit over fifty years ago on the banks of the River Tay in Scotland, Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE was born. His parents were both teachers so we are very lucky that he didn’t decide to follow in their footsteps. If he had, we…
