The calendar has turned.  It is October. Leaves are changing.  There’s a chill in the air that reminds us the Starks are always right. October also means Halloween. And Halloween equals horror.  TCM is focusing on horror icon Vincent Price […]

I sometimes feel that I’m impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it. – Vincent Price Pumpkin spice abounds at the local Starbucks. My allergies are acting up. The cat […]

On a recent episode of a podcast, my on-air partner and I had a long and detailed discussion about nostalgia.  Over the course of the episode we covered a lot of ground, films we associate with our own childhoods, movies […]

Something rather exciting happened at the Toronto International Film Festival about ten days ago. A film blogger by the name of Alex Billington – the proprietor of film website First Showing  – found himself so aggrieved by a gentleman using […]

Ever since I wrote about The Summer of Meh, I’ve been struggling with the question of why this summer was so lackluster. What is happening in Hollywood that the big blockbuster has become dull? We have special effects capabilities like […]

A couple of weeks ago, after much urging by several people, I finally sat down and watched The Expendables 2.  My short review: the opening scene was pretty much exactly what I did not want that movie to be, but […]

The media world thrives on speculation, more so now than ever before. It’s the fault of the Internet, really – we’re used to having media delivered quickly and immediately and we have to have something to talk about. Film studios […]

For all my life, I have been one of those people. You know the type. The guy who walks into a room and hears people talking about the latest release and just has to walk away. Or who to this […]

In a recent interview with EW, Joss Whedon compared contemporary media culture to the gun gag in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: “A movie has to be complete within itself; it can’t just build off the first one […]

The first in a periodic look at essential films, genres or directors movie fans should be familiar with.  Like it or not, there are certain people, films and events that are just too important to ignore. When I think of […]