POPGAP Projects
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Silver Screen Streak List #23: The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film
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Silver Screen Streak List #22: The 28 best films of all time you've probably never seen
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PopGap Diary: Octoblur 2022 is all Oct-Over now, Baby Blue
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PopGap Diary: Octoblur 2022
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Silver Screen Streak List #21: Dramas of the 1940s
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Popgap Diary: 2021 in Review
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Silver Screen Streak List #20: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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PopGap Diary: Octoblur 2021 is in the cold, cold ground
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PopGap Diary: Octoblur 2021
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Silver Screen Streak List #19: Top Crime Dramas of the 1970s
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Silver Screen Streak List #18: Robert Mitchum's Filmography
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Silver Screen Streak List #17: Flickchart's Top Ozploitation
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Silver Screen Streak List #16: Flickchart's 'New Hollywood'
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Popgap Diary: 2020 in Review
Popular Articles
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PopGap Diary: Octoblur 2019
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Introducing the Silver Screen Streak movie challenge
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Octoblur 2017: Annual Horror-ish Movie Nightmare-a-thon
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PopGap #08 Re-cap: Comedies Since 1970
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Octoblur 2017: R.I.P.!
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PopGap Diary: Octoblur 2020
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Octoblur 2015 - It's Over!
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PopGap #19: Movie Books Special Report
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Popgap Diary: 2019 in Review
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PopGap: The Potluck Film Festival is Over
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PopGap #30: Potluck Film Fest, Month Seven - Completed!
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PopGap #28: Potluck Film Fest, Month Five Completed
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PopGap #32: Potluck Film Fest, Month Nine Completed
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PopGap #29: Potluck Film Fest, Month Six Completed
What is a MEDIA LIFE CRISIS?
As I stood on the precipice of my mid-life crisis, I, naturally, thought about movies. How do men in movies address that awful twinge which affects so many of us around this age? That yearning that, somehow, we are neglecting who we are, or that what we do is not what we want to do?
In the movies, they buy slick cars, they screw around on their wives, they stay out all night at the mercy of urban hellscapes, they indulge in (often) criminal adventures...
None of that sounded like fun. I like to stay home.
Naturally, I thought about movies. At the age of 14 I began compiling my own Leonard Maltin-style movie guide. At 18 I studied film in college. At 20 I was attending critics' screenings and film festivals for my college newspaper. At 27 I was reviewing two DVDs a week for a popular website. At 40 I was... I was watching a lot of crap, completely out-of-touch with my pursuit of movies as art.
Medialifecrisis (aka PopGap) is a self-correction. It's a form of disciplining myself to continue seeking out THE GREAT MOVIES. Fill in the gaps. Stop the rot. Treat the best of pop culture like it matters, because it does, even when it stinks.
PopGap isn't only about movies, except when it is. Movies are what I know. For other people, it can be about music, books, art, TV, whatever slice of pop culture excites you, and making sure that it continues to excite you by exploring its high points, its dark corners, its weird diversions, as well as its most popular expressions.