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Here's An Oral History Of 'Scotty Doesn't Know' From 'EuroTrip'

This was a piece that published at Uproxx on August 17, 2018, which has been deleted from the internet. So here it is again. There are two things I remember distinctly about putting this piece together. First, that it took a surprisingly long time, which is a big reason I

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The Gungans Were Right To Banish Jar Jar, He Is Just Too Clumsy

Over the weekend I watched Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, a movie I've seen a shockingly high amount of times for something I purportedly don't like very much. Actually, it's a little more complicated than that. When I saw The Phantom Menace

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Film Festivals and ‘Melania’: Let’s Answer Some Electronic Mail Questions

Jumping off the advice I have received to start weekly features that publish on the same day each week, I’ve decided to make “Let’s answer some electronic mail questions“ a Friday thing. If you would like to ask a question, about almost anything, please email me at mikethehardpass@

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Introducing "May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way Thursday": My Worst Interview Experience

I have been listening to suggestions for The Hard Pass and one that has come up the most frequently is doing a recurring feature on the same day that people can look forward to reading. With that in mind, it is today that I present the first installment of "

Movies Aren't Too Long, They Just Don't Know When To End

A version of this post published on September 3, 2021 on Uproxx, but is no longer on the internet. With this one I did, let's say, tidy it up a little bit. In 2021, we were still very much feeling the affects of the pandemic and I edited

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Han Solo and Jim Rockford: Let’s Answer Some Electronic Mail Questions

Welcome to The Hard Pass's inaugural post where I answer some questions that were sent over the internet, to me, by the way of electronic mail. Which is great because it gives me an opportunity to write about topics I usually don't get to cover, like

Here's My Story About Going To Bruce Springsteen’s House

In 2019 I went to Bruce Springsteen's house for an interview when he was promoting a film he co-directed, Western Stars. I wrote about this back then for Uproxx, but that story has been deleted. I'm not going to post the original story because that'

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Here Are Some Things I Think You Should Know About 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’

Out of curiosity, I visited the official website of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to see how the people in charge of promoting this film are describing the plot. Here is what the official website says: "When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes

‘Potato Chip’: The Behind-The-Scenes Story Of The Weirdest ‘SNL’ Sketch Ever

This originally published on Uproxx on May 19, 2016 but was deleted from the internet after Uproxx purged its archives. My favorite anything changes on what seems like a daily basis so it's always tough for me to declare something is my "favorite," but if I

My Obsession With Hugh Jackman's New Commercial

I was at a bar the first time I saw Hugh Jackman dancing around a kitchen, holding a bottle of some sort of drink that he seems to enjoy quite a bit. This was during a commercial break for a sporting event I do not remember, the sound wasn'

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Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights' Could Use A Little More Smut

Who Is The Better Marty: Marty Supreme Or Dr. Martin Best?

When I first saw on social media that Josh Charles's character on the new Fox series Best Medicine is named Dr. Martin Best, I thought it was a joke. Then I found myself wishing it were true because that's a great name for a television doctor