I’ve been really struggling with everything that’s been going on the past few days, trying to figure out what I wanted to say about the protests and riots following the murder of George Floyd – or if it was worth … Continue reading Unjust Fear Will Always Produce Righteous Anger
With Iowa in the news for bungling the Democratic caucus despite having 52 years to get the process right, I got the itch to play the State Swap game again. The concept of the game is to take a fairly … Continue reading The State Swap Game: Iowa
I usually don’t post things like this here, but I did something that I thought I’d never do, and I wanted to give it a bit more space than Twitter will allow, so I’m gonna talk about it here: I … Continue reading 31 Days Without A Cigarette: A Retrospective
I’m not entirely sure why the untimely death of Nipsey Hussle has affected me the way it has over the last few days. I wasn’t very familiar with his music, and until he died, I didn’t really hear too much … Continue reading Close Enough To Touch: The Tragedy Of Nipsey Hussle and History Repeating
******** out of 10 Horror movies are experiencing a Renaissance, an application of art-house sensibilities that brings new subtlety and depth to films like we haven’t experienced in years. Slasher films are a problematic subset of horror films, a throwback to … Continue reading Halloween: A Review
**** out of 10 “How do you make a Venom movie without Spider-man,” people asked. I thought it could be done, I’d seen Venom solo comics in the past that did it well, at least briefly. And even though the … Continue reading Venom: A Review (With Spoilers)
It was evening and I was at a cavernous but curiously vacant grocery store in suburban Philadelphia when someone enthusiastically greeted me. I turned around to see a small slightly bowed older man with his wife pushing a shopping cart. He struck up a conversation with me, and it was pretty obvious he had me mistaken for someone else he had seen at an event, but for some reason I didn’t see the point of correcting him, as it wasn’t going to be an in depth conversation anyway, and he seemed quite happy to run into me again. “Can you believe I … Continue reading Tommy and Me
Cub – 2014, written by Jonas Govaerts and Roel Mondelaers, directed by Jonas Govaerts Sam is a meek Cub Scout on a mountain trip that goes rather wrong when a campfire story designed to scare the children turns out to accidentally parallel a real threat in the woods – a demented poacher and his feral son who are ready to put everyone through hell. Cub has some amazing visual motifs, Kai’s mask should be one of the great horror images, and they spend a lot of time with Sam and all of that time is worth it. But Cub never … Continue reading Horror Movies that Need to be Remade/Rebooted – the Present Pt. 2
When I was planning this series of articles in my head I really felt like we were in the Golden Age of horror. I’ve seen more films that were intended to be great films and were smarter and better written then I can remember. But as I did the legwork it became obvious that it was simply because more movies were released than ever before, in fact in the last two or three years more horror films were released than most decades combined. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale – 2010 written and directed by Jalmari Helander In Lapland (the home … Continue reading Horror Movies That Need to Be Remade/Rebooted – The Present Pt. 1
Noroi: The Curse – 2005, directed by Koji Shiraishi, written by Koji Shiraishi and Naoyuki Yokota Noroi is a Japanese mockumentary on a the disappearance of Kobayashi, a paranormal expert whose housed burned to ashes, his wife’s body in the ruins. He had been investigating a local woman who is tenuously linked to some deaths and missing people, and an interview with an absolute crackpot only provides him with a map and a great of confusion. Later he interviews an actress who has a frightening encounter with something while filming at a shrine. This and other random threads come together, … Continue reading Horror Movies that Need to be Remade/Rebooted- the 2000’s Pt. 2
