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After you have a kid, you find yourself revisiting kids’ movies that you haven’t seen in 30, 35, or in my case sometimes 40...
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After you have a kid, you find yourself revisiting kids’ movies that you haven’t seen in 30, 35, or in my case sometimes 40...
I don’t intend to get in a rut with two RIP Spasms back-to-back, but, man, Gene Wilder. Another great one departed and gone up...
In the previous installment, I treated anthology films released during the roughly 10-year period when England’s Amicus Productions reigned supreme. Amicus’s triumphs remain the...
One of the most effective coming of age films of all time, Stand By Me was released 30 years ago today. Based on the...
Mobile has become such a dominant presence in the life of everyone, that figuring out which apps are out there is a challenge. So...
Whether #YoureWithHer or not, one thing’s for sure; more and more, women are fighting for and claiming their rightful place alongside men in industries...
Last installment, I covered anthology movies (which are almost invariably horror movies) from their 1920s beginnings up through Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath in 1963....
My debut novel, Duskfall, has been unleashed upon the world this week, and I couldn’t be happier about it. But I’m the first to...
UPDATE: Saw the finale. Oh my. As the sixth season of Game of Thrones comes to an end, we are left to look back...
Pixar’s seventeenth animated feature Finding Dory has just swum into theaters, and advance word at the time of this writing suggests the long-awaiting follow-up...
It’s been over thirty years since Woody Harrelson first appeared as flakey bartender Woody Boyd on Cheers, a role which for many years seemed...
Sometimes known as “portmanteau movies,” anthology movies tell three, four, or five separate stories, often encompassing them or alternating them with a frame tale...
With Batman V Superman in theaters (if not in our hearts), I thought it would be interesting to examine the history of films with...
The year that was 1991 will go down in history as the true dawn of the Digital Age of Cinema. Rudimentary computer-generated imagery...
Written by Mark Wensel I’m going to take a break from my usual Double Features to tell you what I saw at South By...
Zombies are all over the place nowadays. Commercials, kids shows, videogames, mainstream television… often considered a reflection of consumerism itself, it’s really no surprise...
Written by Erin Maxwell On March 20, Mr. Fred McFeely Rogers was born in the great town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his seventy somewhat...
Last installment, I listed nine horror or exploitation pictures from cinema’s beginnings up through the mid 1960s that prominently feature menacing carnival acts, workers,...
So called “Scream Queens” are a dime a dozen these days. It seems we toss the term around all willy nilly for any actress...
horror hor·ror | ˈhȯr-ər noun An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. Children screamed in horror. synonyms: terror, fear, fright, alarm, panic....
February is pretty damn busy for being the shortest month of the year. You’ve got Black History Month, Valentine’s Day, Women in Horror Month,...
Snowmageddon 2016, or whatever you’d like the call it, has inspired this gal to compile a list that evokes all the whimsy of the...
Written by John Teehan I was thinking of starting off with saying something along the lines of “2015 was a great year for tabletop...
Carnivals have always been a little creepy. Sure, they’re places to have fun, but they always promise something weird, something grotesque, something to squirm...