Having grown up partially in suburban California around the time Steven Spielberg was making it big, it’s easy to say I was somewhat shaped by his world. Spielberg is easily one of the best directors when it comes to children and accepting their viewpoints as completely valid,
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I live in a place that is more likely to play host to a film like The Cabin in the Woods than show it in a theater. That’s because we live in a remote wooded area filled with cabins and not a single theater. But that doesn’t
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I absolutely love horror films. The problem is, so many horror films just aren’t worth watching. But where they’re good, they are often great and is a genre that has helped start many great director’s careers. Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson are standouts in this category, but
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No, this isn’t a trailer for the Viggo Mortensen film. It’s also not a trailer for the Jack Kerouac film, On the Road. This is a completely different road. Perhaps a road less traveled. At the very least, this isn’t an American road, which is probably good
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It’s possible Rosemary’s Baby will be coming out on Blu-ray in the near future. The Criterion Collection is known for teasing their releases before they are announced and recently, a drawing of two rosemary bushes (plants?) were released with one being much smaller than the other and
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It is possible Stephen King is responsible for my becoming an English major. I wasn’t all that interested in reading in general when I was young, though I probably read more than others my age. I just had a tough time finding things I wanted to read.
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There are a number of great movie blogs out there, many of which help provide content for this blog. One that I have a particular fondness for is The Overlook Hotel, a blog with a singular focus, Stanley Kubric’s The Shining. I am a big fan of
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