Author: Thomas Newman

Famous songs about trains range from country to rock, with a little bit of everything in between. While some songs glorify the train’s role in society, others take a more somber tone, talking about the…

Jimmy is one of those artists that just gets better with age. Though he’d been writing and performing for over six decades, his music is still relevant today. His songs are as catchy as ever,…

Point Break is more than a film about cops and robbers, it’s an intricate character study of tenacious, energetic and capable characters with a “live free or die” attitude. Couple that with the strong directing…

Mondays might suck, but there’s one thing that’s always guaranteed to lift your mood – music. Specifically, great music. Even more specifically, great music that draws on the worst day of the week as inspiration…

Maybe one day, when they write the history of movies in the 1980s that we all love, they’ll be able to explain why Chicago became the world’s teenage movie capital. The film Adventures in Babysitting…

Talk about rising star power! “The Outsiders” featured so many young future big film stars that it was almost blinding. Not to mention the fact that it was directed by the future Godfather mega-director, Francis…

This featherweight male-bonding adventure-comedy was a story by three individuals; Fred Wolf, Harris Goldberg, and Tom Nursall. The film, Without a Paddle, debuted on the 20th of August 2004 and was filmed on the central…

It’s hard to believe that it has been over 50 years since the death of jazz singer and trumpeter Louis Prima, but his music is still as popular as ever. Many consider him to be…