Nick Leshi
- Location
- Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Birthday
- December 13
- Bio
- Writer, actor, media professional, fan of entertainment, pop culture, and speculative fiction. Contact nickleshi@aol.com for more info.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Guest Post: Do You Listen to
Critics?
June 18, 2013 04:32PM - The Surveillance Hypocrisy
June 17, 2013 04:25PM - The Happy Birthday Lawsuit
June 13, 2013 10:37PM - Secrets Learned from Reading
Billion Dollar Batman
June 11, 2013 10:38PM - Celluloid's Last Gasp at the
Drive-In
June 07, 2013 03:08PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Great points, Donegal
and Seer. Thanks for
reading!”
June 18, 2013 09:32AM - “Good post, ONL. I posted
my own thoughts on the issue
in an
essay called
"Th…”
June 17, 2013 04:28PM - “Thanks, VZN. I have not
seen it, but I will hunt
it
down.”
June 09, 2013 12:18AM - “Algis, Under the Dome
looks good, but I'm biased
because I'm
a huge Stephen
King…”
June 08, 2013 09:40AM - “Totally agree”
June 06, 2013 10:23AM
Nick Leshi's Links
Even when the news came that Roger Ebert's cancer had returned, he still put on a brave front and looked toward the future. Despite announcing that he would have to cut back on his movie reviews, he still hoped to continue writing and was launching a Kickstarter campaign to resurrect… Read full post »
The Academy Awards ceremony is only a few
short weeks away, and the deadline is February 19 for the final
ballots from those eligible to vote in the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, which means the campaign to win those
coveted golden statuettes (affectionately nicknamed "Oscar")/… Read full post »
A couple of days ago,
I wrote about Broadway musicals that were being developed for
the big movie screen. Lo and behold, that same day I read the
news that Will Smith and Jay-Z were proceeding with their plans to
update
Annie as a major motion picture. A contemporary
version/… Read full post »
The Amazing Spider-man
exceeded my expectations. I had trepidations that this reboot
was too much too soon, coming on the heels of Sam Raimi's mostly
successful version of the webcrawling superhero only a few years
prior. Even though Raimi's third film was a letdown in many
people's eye/… Read full post »
Another week, another box-office victory by Marvel's The Avengers. As of this writing, it has earned an impressive $457,000,000 domestically and an unbelievable additional $723,000,000 in foreign ticket sales, bringing its global total to over a billion dollars already. If it c/… Read full post »
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The Upfront
Market is upon us this week -- that's when the broadcast television
networks present their new lineups for next season to
advertisers. In the old days, we would have to wait until
TV Guide's Fall Preview Issue to know what new shows were
coming up, but now the Internet/… Read full post »
After seeing so many celebrities die far too young, one would think that we'd be numb to another tragic death, but the news Saturday night that Whitney Houston passed away at the age of 48 saddened and shocked many. As I write this, I sit prepared to watch the Grammy/…
Here are my thoughts on the first/…
Samantha Wheeler
Heidi Banerjee
CHERYL CHE
Yvonne Johnson
Mark Fornale
Donegal Descendant
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