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Let’s look back on twenty years’ worth of Pulp Fiction trivia and behind the scenes fun. You never know when they will release a Pulp Fiction Trivial Pursuit game right? Also, there are magnificent spoilers here, so you should probably watch the movie first and slap yourself for taking this long.

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Chronologically speaking, the last scene in the movie sees Butch and Fabienne drive away on a motorcycle. The very first sound heard at the start of the movie is the same motorcycle’s engine.

Whenever Vincent Vega goes to the bathroom, something bad happens: He emerges at Mia Wallace’s house to find her overdosing, comes out at the restaurant to...

I wrote about this special screening of "The Blood of Jesus" two months ago, and since the event is coming soon, I decided to remind you of it. And of course there is quite a story behind that wonderful image above, which I’m going to relate to you right now. The picture of Satan is from Spencer Williams’ important 1941 race movie "The Blood of Jesus," made on location in Texas. However, when people hear the name Spencer Williams today, the few who are familiar with the name, know him as the rotund guy in the bowler hat, who played Andy in those old, and still very controversial, "Amos and Andy" TV shows back from the 1950’s. But he was a lot...

Of course there is quite a story behind that wonderful image above and I’m going to relate it to you right now. The picture of Satan is from Spencer Williams’ important 1941 race movie The Blood of Jesus made in 1941 on location in Texas. However when people hear the name Spencer Williams today, the few who are familiar with the name, know him as the rotund guy in the bowler hat who played Andy in those old,and still very controversial, Amos and Andy TV shows back from the 1950’s. But he was a lot more than that. In fact, he was a genuine black filmmaking pioneer nearly equal to Oscar Micheaux. Williams started his career as movie extra in silent movies, but soon began...

When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all white, older men. It was Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Shelley Berman, Red Skelton ... even Amos and Andy were white men, which is hilarious if you think about it. Phyllis Diller was happening right before me. But even Phyllis was a caricature, and I didn’t want to be a caricature. I was a college graduate; I wanted to get married. Related: Joan Rivers Dies at 81 Hollywood's Notable Deaths

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Today, Sandford & Son made history in 1972 when it debuted. It was the first show since The Amos and Andy Show to feature an all-African-American cast. The show was actually based on a popular British sitcom called Steptoe and Son. Television producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin “Americanized” the show by recasting the leads with African-Americans. During four of its six seasons, it garnered higher ratings than any other NBC prime-time series.

The sitcom starred Redd Foxx (whose real name was John Sanford) as Fred Sanford and Demond Wilson as his son, Lamont Sanford. Fred worked as a junk dealer, and Lamont was dedicated to helping his father.

The show marked the beginning of many black cast shows to follow including The Jeffersons, Good Times and What’s Happening. You can catch old episodes of the show on the TVLand cable channel.

Below is a clip of Fred meeting one of his all-time favorites,...

March, 2009. That’s the first time I started talking with William Monahan about doing an interview for his directorial debut London Boulevard. At the time, he was in prep in London, and we talked about why he wanted to adapt Ken Bruen’s novel and what the experience was like for him. But for many reasons, the interview fell apart, and we decided to continue talking at a later point. Of course later became a few months, and then we started and stopped a few more times. Until last week. That’s because about a week ago, at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, I finally sat down with the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Departed to talk about his directorial debut, which stars Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Anna Friel, Jamie Bower, David Thewlis, Ray Winstone, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, and Ben Chaplin. The film is about a man just...

Charlie Chan definitely has a place among the pantheon of famous fictional detectives. He is certainly one of the more controversial ones. Although Chan is undoubtedly a hero, many Asians resent the character as an ethnic stereotype. Chan is polite and soft spoken, never lacking an appropriate old Chinese proverb to suit the occasion.

The character of Charlie Chan was created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1923 as a rebuttal to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes so common in literature of the day, such as Fu Manchu. Biggers lived in Hawaii and resented the unflattering Asian clichés so he invented a benign Chinese Investigator working for the Honolulu Police Force. He wrote several Chan novels. The honorable Chinese Detective became so popular that he was soon adapted into film. There were many Chan films, starting in the silent film era. Early films actually starred Chinese actors but the Audience didn’t respond to Asian Leading men.