Hope you had a great Christmas and got some great movie-related gifts. I sure did! Here’s my list:
– Anton Ego figure (the food critic from “Ratatouille”. A critic for a critic.)
– The Spiderwick Chronicles complete boxed book set
– 2008 “Ratatouille” wall calendar
– “The Nightmare Before Christmas” Jack Skeleton earmuffs and paperweight
– “Shrek” – The Art of the Quest book
– “Bee Movie” remote control flying Barry B. Benson
– 2 “Cars” diecast cars (Fred and the Dinoco heliocopter)
– 2008 Disney day-by-day desk calendar
– “Shrek” knit hat
– “Fantasia” ornament
– Five Regal Movie gift cards
– The book: The Film Snob’s Dictionary
– Plus…I gave my dad “The Simpsons Movie” DVD (w/ figures) and he got the movie soundtrack from Santa
Good thing I’ve got some time-off from school this week to play with all this stuff. I think we’ll be watching “The Simpsons Movie” tonight!
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Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Since the podcast began in 2011, Jackson has welcomed-in more than 100 entertainment industry figures. Jackson’s first guest was Tom Kenny, the iconic voice of SpongeBob SquarePants. In 2012, Jackson interviewed Lee Hirsch, the director of the documentary “Bully”, actor/director Matthew Lillard and “The Middle” star Atticus Shaffer. 2013 guests included Oscar-winning director Chris Wedge (Scrat in the “Ice Age” movies). Also on the show that year were the directors of “The Croods”, Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco. 2014 guests included comedian Kathy Griffin, Chaz Ebert, wife of late film critic Roger Ebert and animation historian Jerry Beck.
The following year Jackson interviewed Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) and “Hotel Transylvania” trilogy director Genndy Tartakovsky. 2016 highlights included comedian Adam Pally, LAIKA founder Travis Knight and Oscar-winning “La La Land” composer Justin Hurwitz.
In 2017, the podcast featured “Fairly OddParents” creator Butch Hartman, Emmy-winning game show host Todd Newton, and comedian Gilbert Gottfried. Also, popular talk show host Jenna Wolfe and Oscar-nominated writer and star of “The Big Sick”, Kumail Nanjiani dropped in.
So far in 2018, 4-time Oscar winning “Wallace & Gromit” creator Nick Park and “People NOW” host Jeremy Parsons have joined LCJ, along with both the star and writer/director of the critically-acclaimed film “Eighth Grade” – Elsie Fisher and Bo Burnham.