daily scream: when ghosts of the past still haunt the present
2019’s Doctor Sleep is on Hulu in the US, Prime in the UK (and many other services, too).
Shining
weekend watchlist: a movie worth paying premium VOD prices for
Plus horrors fantastical, hellish, alien… and all too down to Earth. (First published May 14th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
curated: why so much movie criticism, and the movies themselves, are so awful these days
“[T]he denial of mythos is everywhere in our culture, and it can partially explain why so much of our approach to everything artistic, challenging, or mysterious seems reductive, dull, and unimaginative….”
Doctor Sleep movie review: a reckoning with the ghosts of the past
A wonderfully unexpected sort of horror movie, beautiful and delicate, but unsettling, too, with an authentic plausibility to the dichotomy between the invented uncanny and the human response to it.
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 4
Sam’s little-boy idealism about what it means to be a cop gets a 1973 wakeup call…
quick list: five cold-weather movies that feel great in an NYC August
It’s so disgusting today in New York City that it made me actually cry in frustration. But just thinking about a handful of films makes me feel a little better. Because baby, it’s cold in these movies…
because the military-industrial-entertainment complex Fox Mulder warned us about is real
Remember those two big skyscrapers that used to be in lower Manhattan? Remember how they fell to the ground? Never happened. It was all CGI: Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday there was “strong evidence” the US faked the September 11 terror attacks as an excuse to go to war against Muslims. “There … more…
