The Fog (1980)
(By Avco Embassy Pictures/ Debra Hill – This image can be obtained anywhere online or directly from the film’s initial distributors. This particular image was taken from the internet, at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48724378) John Carpenter has recently come into the news due to weighing in on the ever-persistent debate regarding who is a Thing…
Is ‘It Ends’ Worth Watching?
(By http://www.impawards.com/2025/it_ends_ver2.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82428273) No. Not really. I was intrigued by this film’s conceit–characters get stuck driving on an endless road. It’s part of the newish “liminal spaces” sub-genre. It reminded me a little of the 2019 film Vivarium, which shows a married couple getting trapped in some enormous empty suburban neighborhood for years.…
Cancer with a Small “c”
I have cancer, but it’s only the kind with a small “c.” A very small “c,” thankfully. Basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, and evidently the most common type of cancer overall. It started as a tiny sore on my nose that just wouldn’t go away. Based on pictures, it likely started around…
Prince of Darkness
(By http://www.impawards.com/1987/prince_of_darkness.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17211922) Not one of John Carpenter’s best films, but an enjoyable cult classic all the same. To be fair, JC set the bar so high with Halloween and The Thing that anything else feels ordinary, even if it’s still better than most. The guy didn’t make horror flicks. He made horror…
James Bond’s Unapologetic Sexism is Refreshing
(My own photo) We live in a very neutered age. Everything is very watered down. Everything is fake or feels fake. People walk on eggshells, afraid to offend. Even writers. And writers are supposed to offend. Not because it’s “shocking” or because they are just railing against cancel culture or trying to be alt-right or…
‘Jagged Edge’: A Rewatch Almost 40 Years in the Making
(Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8198266) When I was five or six, I told my mom I wanted to watch a “scary movie.” At the time, I lived in a small town in Colorado, and right downtown there was a little video store we used to frequent every week to rent movies. This was the video store we’d…
Is ‘Thinner’ Any Good?
(By Moviegoods.com, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21786900) I read the Stephen King novella awhile back and remember it being an effective, terse little thriller. King is a classic “over-writer,” often making up for a thin story concept with an encyclopedic catalogue of characters and their backstories, quirks, and then webbing them up in a messy convoluted plot…
“The World Is Tough on Beautiful Things”
Just a brief rant. This might constitute reason #874 for why I hate country music. I’ve been traveling recently. And one night I happened to stop at a Dickey’s Barbecue. Dickey’s is a chain BBQ place with a Southwest vibe. There are wagon wheel chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and other Old West-style decorations and…
Downfall (AKA that Hitler Meme Movie)
(By The poster art can or could be obtained from the distributor., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56186129) Nowadays you almost won’t know about a film whatsoever unless it has memeability. I guarantee you that’s why so many went to check out Obsession. All those Gumby-esque facial expressions Indy Navarrette makes–how could you not want to see it.…
Anatomy of a Murder (and a Genre)
(By Saul Bass – http://ilovegraphicdesign.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/anatomy-of-a-murder/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25500751) It’s kind of weird how there are so many legal and courtroom dramas now that it’s hard to appreciate some of the classics that founded the genre and made it what it is today. There are so many Law and Order spinoffs I can’t even keep track…
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