Murphy’s Law Archive
Joel Murphy I like to poke fun at Hollywood for being soulless and out of touch. They tend to rely on focus groups and complex box office formulas to try to figure out which movies will be a hit instead of simply green lighting the best scripts
Joel Murphy My gentle readers, I’m sure there have been times in your lives when you have walked around with your zipper down or a big glob of mustard caked onto the corner of your mouth while everyone in the vicinity was either too polite or too
Joel Murphy When I was a kid, we had an Intellevision. I’d sit in front of our bulky, wood-paneled television using the controller’s silver disc and numeric keypad to help a crudely-rendered eight-bit frog cross a busy highway or to help a blocky green adventurer swing over
Joel Murphy In the dark days, before what came to be known as “The Great Breakthrough,” scoring a supply was no easy task. To obtain your rations, you couldn’t simply go to the corner store. Instead, you had to seek out a supplier – typically in a
Joel Murphy This weekend at multiplexes around the country, two tired concepts will battle each other for box office supremacy. In one corner is Just Go With It, yet another Adam Sandler comedy about a self-absorbed man-child who gets entangled in a messy situation thanks to a
