Roundtable: Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide


With World War Z coming out this next week, this week's topic is a creative and fun one. It's time to create a Survival Guide for When (Not If) the Zombie Apocalypse occurs. So we posed two questions to the panelists for this week's roundtable:   1) Where would you hole up Read more

Bright Spots: Ian & Larissa - The Power of Marriage


As Palmer and my second wedding anniversary approaches, friends often ask the question of what I've learned in marriage. I've written about the power of marriage before. Some of our contemporary society's most divisive and polarizing debates concern the fundamental nature of what marriage is or what marriage is Read more

The Bachelorette 2013: Week 4 Recap


Last night on The Bachelorette, there were high heels, tears, helicopters (obvi), and, of course, a private Darius Rucker show. No one's quite sure when this show became the relaunch pad for comeback 90's artists, but, then again, nobody really cares. To be honest, most of this episode was Read more

SkyMall Surprises: Gifts for Him


[Editor's Note: I received this e-mail from my wife last week. With our anniversary coming up this week, she had decided she would shop for my present solely on SkyMall's website. This is going to start a mini-series of Palmer's gift ideas for various occasions. Check out the e-mail Read more

Movie Review: Man of Steel


Is this the Superman we’ve been eagerly awaiting? When word first broke “300” director Zack Snyder had been put in charge of the fabled DC Comics franchise, viewers knew instantly they were going to enjoy a film with more action than previous outings. True to form, Snyder gives us our Read more

He Said, She Said: True Blood


Four years ago, my then girlfriend, now wife, Katelyn and I were looking for ways to occupy the so called dog days of summer that were dragging along in Oxford, MS. She was a student; I was a chef/mover/waiter/blogger/beer drinker. (Man. Life was easy then.) Aside from the usual Read more

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The Ten

The Ten: Most Anticipated Upcoming Movies of 2012

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Clayton Martin in Featured, Movie Previews, Movies, The Ten | 1 Comment

New Dark Knight Rises Poster Arrives Online 1337636698 The Ten: Most Anticipated Upcoming Movies of 2012

This week for The Ten I’ve decided to lay out all the movies I’m looking forward to for the remainder of the year. And there are lots. I’m damn near giddy for The Dark Knight Rises to grace us with its presence and so I thought this was the perfect time to share all the movies I’m pumped for closing out the year.

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The Ten: Best Years For Summer Movies

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Clayton Martin in Featured, Movies, The Ten | Leave a comment

Ferris Bueller The Ten: Best Years For Summer Movies

“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.” -Charlie Chaplin

Ok so Charlie was a little off. Not only have movies proven to not be a fad, they have evolved into these grand events in society. The summer movie season has been king since the late 1970′s and today I’m going to examine what I would consider to be the top 10 years for summer movies. As this year’s crop of summer movies is entering full swing I thought it was an appropriate time to do these rankings. I think the biggest deciding factor I used in evaluating them was the longevity of the movies that were released that summer. The other main factor I used was the impact the specific movies had on the times in which they were released. Read more

The Ten: Movies About Movies

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Clayton Martin in Featured, Movies, The Ten | 1 Comment

Singin in the Rain The Ten: Movies About Movies

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

-Orson Welles

I’m going to be kicking off a new movie ranking series and I thought the most appropriate start would be to review movies about the movies. These are films that take on an aspect of Hollywood, whether it’s a struggling actor or actress, a psychotic screenwriter or quirky director. As a lover of film, I’ve always been fascinated by these sorts of movies because I always sense a very personal touch to the writing. I think these movies tend to most commonly embody the Orson Welles quote from above. Read more