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It finally happened. Last Friday evening, after I put the kids to bed and was preparing for a movie night in front of the...
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I saw the revival of RAGTIME a few weeks back. This was the second revival. I’d seen the original, and liked it, although to...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
The contribution Robert Englund has made to not only horror but to cinema in general is more than most actors living or dead will...
It finally happened. Last Friday evening, after I put the kids to bed and was preparing for a movie night in front of the...
Trick or Treat… …Or, further vacation ruminations, this time as I pissed away a day aboard ship—staring at the azure skies between Corfu and...
What drives a man to dress his children as monsters, splatter them with homemade blood and share photos of the results with everyone he...
It’s that time of the year again, when Pumpkin Spice finds itself in everything from lattes to Pop Tarts to Oreos. But fortunately, there’s...
Ah, Halloween season. The grand time when, as my friend and burlesque performer Lillian Bustle says, you can let out your inner stripper. And,...
Lets take a look at an oddball spin-off of a very important TV series… Since this is a spin-off you will need some background...
Although I am delighted to be an October baby, that one defining thing about the month, namely Hallowe’en, has never been a thing for...
In my previous two columns (Read Part 1 / Read Part 2), I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The...
Thank the pop culture maker! The TV season is back! Not that I don’t love summer TV, with all its easy, breezy reality shows...
Here’s another thing; you kids are ruining everything. I have a lot of stuff going on, so I just got caught up with that...
It’s October…time for unfortunate surprises, political or otherwise, Rocktober, Inktober, Marvelous Moondances, and for me, a birthday, or more realistically, the acknowledgment of being...
My mom used to tell me that I would never go to University if I spent all day playing video games. Well guess what?...
Venom is upon us, and the movie’s stunning $80 million opening weekend debut proves there is still a ravenous appetite for comic book superhero...
In the pantheon of filmmakers and auteurs who sprung from the Roger Corman school in 1970s, Jack Hill probably wouldn’t make most scholarly recollections....
It wasn’t technically an exorcism, what they did to Clare. When the reverend and his son ripped her demon from her, they called it...
In How To Invent Everything, Ryan North takes us on an incredible journey from the very beginning of human history all the way up...
Beyond Fest in Los Angeles launched it’s 2018 film series with a tribute to filmmaker David Cronenberg. In addition to the 13-film retrospective, the...
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” – Pablo Picasso. “Keep on Truckin’!” – Robert Crumb. Years...
Have you ever wondered what happens when the game of football meets the world of comic books? Well, in all honesty, the results have...
Why do we need women in science fiction and fantasy? Let’s answer that with an exercise in speculation. Imagine a world without tales of...
Nothing can quite compare to a casino-themed film. The thrill of the character working to win big at their game will never fail to...
So, Daniel Craig will indeed be back for his fifth mission as 007, but the James Bond movie that was to be directed by...
Everyone is familiar with the Jerry Bruckheimer produced shows (Cold Case, the CSI franchise etc..) that have dominated the ratings for decades now but...
Hey, everybody! You may know me as that guy you know. Others may know me as the award-winning writer of Astronauts in Trouble and...