Stephen has had articles, interviews and reviews published by Pasadena Magazine, Boxoffice Magazine, TheRaider.Net and Uptown. Here are examples from 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
If a movie has a foreign destination as title, I see it. I don't need to know anything else. Perhaps it was growing up in Midwest America, where far away exotic lands, mixed with Hollywood effects, cast an addictive spell. Star Wars ... read more »
Jake Cutter flew a seaplane called Cutter's Goose. He was a pilot for hire, noble hero, and friend to the decent wherever danger lurked. Plus, he had an eye-patch-wearing dog - like a pirate dog. A singer named Sarah Stickney White had been ... read more »
The Adventures of Gabriel Hunt, a series of six new novels, resurrects a story style popular in the first half of the last century, when tens of millions of readers were snatching "pulps" off newsstands. One of the top genres was ... read more »
On September 26, 2008, Paul Newman passed away - but he'll always be with us. One of my favorite stories about Newman's bigheartedness has nothing to do with his legendary generosity to charity; it has to do with movies. In the early 1970's John ... read more »
"There's a generation who grew up with images, which have become very meaningful to them. I actually get letters every day from people who say one of my illustrations inspired them toward a certain career path or something." Drew Struzan speaks ... read more »
Simon Wincer, the Australian director responsible for decades worth of adventures and westerns such as Lonesome Dove, The Lighthorsemen, The Phantom and some of the best of the Young Indiana Jones series, seems slightly out of ... read more »
As a huge fan of great adventure stories and old Hollywood, I had been enamored for some time with a movie Louis L'Amour's son made called, The Diamond of Jeru. I didn't know a great deal about Louis L'Amour. I knew he was one of several ... read more »
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End are not really about pirates at all.
Pirates existed of course, and still do, but there were never really squid-faced men or hammerhead shark-faced men. Skeletons are not sword-fighters in real life. This is the stuff of movies. And movies, particularly Hollywood movies, are what ... read more »
"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy." - Harrison Ford
As all the world knows by now, Harrison Ford is set to finally return to the role of Indiana Jones. Mostly, this news has been met with excitement. But, not an insignificant number have wondered if, after all these years, the sixty-something ... read more »
A beautiful woman tied to train tracks. A speeding locomotive snakes through the mountains. The woman screams. A hero races to her. But will he reach her in time?
Thanks to the cutting together of images like these, mixed with the melodramatic banging of a piano's keys, stage writers and novelists suddenly had a hard time competing with movies. Broadway could boast about gifted choreographers and the ... read more »
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