Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for a reboot.

Please forgive the tumbleweeds that have been blowing through this blog of late – as much as I love Sergio Leone, it’s not quite the ambience I was going for. The plan, when I started Cinematic for the People, was to keep it regularly updated, humming along like a finely tuned European sports car; the reality, at least recently, has been something more akin to a Ford Pinto propped up on cinderblocks in the backyard.

But, no longer – from here on out, I do solemnly swear to post whatever movie-related goodness I can scrounge up, and to be a deadbeat dad to this blog no more. What prompted this sudden and highly uncharacteristic bit of attentiveness on my part? Well, a few things, actually. One, I was getting tired of looking at the Hitman post that had enjoyed a privileged position at the top of this page for the better part of a month, and two… Well, as I’m sure you know by now, PLAY Magazine has closed up shop, and with it the Movie Match column that I used to write every week (excluding the weeks that always-understanding editor Jeff Petrin let me get away with being lazy). Sad as I am to not see the column in print anymore, the much bigger loss is PLAY itself, a publication I’m going to miss terribly – having spent two years of my life as part of the staff, and as a big-time appreciator of what the current staff was up to before the magazine folded (I raise a glass to Jeff, Nicole, and Craig, who kept New Haven entertained and informed week after week after week), it breaks my heart to see it go.

So I thought, rather than mourn PLAY, I’d do my very little part to keep its spirit alive, and this movie blog being the best place for me to do that, I’m going to make the effort to keep it fresh and worth reading. That’s how PLAY would have wanted it, I think.

So, enjoy the new and improved Cinematic for the People, and please feel free to light a fire under my ass should I let it go astray again.

Cheers.