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Well, my second book, at least. The book may also be a big number two, but I will leave that up to each individual reader to decide. The title More of the Same is largely truth in advertising, except it is also a bit different this time around. It has new categories of films, such […]
When I saw the trailer for 2026’s Hokum, I assumed I was going to see it and, hopefully, in the theatre. Something just felt right about what I had seen in brief glimpses, things that made me suspect this was more Film4 than A24. I was glad I took the leap, because this is rare […]
After more than three years of posting something every day, I am putting the site on hiatus. Basically, life has intruded to an extent I am having trouble maintaining roughly three months of material in reserve at any given time. Why three months? That’s the same amount of time the syndicates for newspaper cartoonists require […]
We are currently in one of those periods where belief in science is ebbing among the general public, while widespread acceptance of some rather fringe aspects of Christianity are in ascendance. Speaking of ascendance, it was once again predicted Jesus would bring his faithful to Heaven in the event called the Rapture. This time, some […]
“Hypernormalization”—that is the single word I think would best describe 2025. To the best I understand, it is how nobodies like me continue to function in a world where there is a seismic change, especially when there atrocities happening around you, yet to continue to do your job, buy food, etc. It is the kind […]
1975’s Night of the Seagulls is a zombie movie, which is a bit like if Hitchcock’s The Birds had been about zombies. This is the final movie in a quadrilogy by Spanish director Amando de Ossorio where undead Knights Templar ritually sacrifice young women. Normal zombie at least have some sort of base motivation for […]
My wife was an anthropology major in college, with a specific interest in forensics. She worked a couple of digs where human remains were being excavated as part of murder investigations. One of these was on a creekside, where she tripped over the top of a bone. I then pulled it out of the mud […]
I loved Rocky & Bullwinkle, and I have a fondness for a great many of the minor characters, such as Gidney and Cloyd. These were two short, green moonmen who would freeze anybody into place using their “scrooch” guns. Though equally vertically challenged, the moonmen in 1964’s First Men in the Moon are nowhere near […]
On the set of Time Bandits, Sean Connery was reportedly reluctant to be shown mounting a horse, as he had an experience on an earlier film in which he felt a director had him do this in some way that left him humiliated. And yet, he seems perfectly confident running around in 1974’s Zardoz wearing […]
We have a bulletin board hanging in our kitchen with various pins on it that are important to us for various reasons. Some were from Zox sets, some are those Niaski pins which put feline spins on famous artists. We have three pins made by Severin of some horror icons we like: Christopher Lee, Peter […]
