Opening Titles and Song: Prince of Darkness (1987)
“Let’s talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time…
“Let’s talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time…
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Among his loyal readers, blogger Dennis Cozzalio — he of the wonderfully titled Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule site…that’s not him pictured above, btw — is well-regarded for…
Blogger, noted New Beverly Cinema and drive-in movie supporter, and genuinely real good guy (along with being a good friend), Dennis Cozzalio is one who focuses…
Way back when, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up a…
Since I mentioned the John Carpenter blogathon my friend J.D. hosted a few years back earlier in the week, I thought I’d reprise and update my…
About five years ago, my friend J.D. — he of the wonderful RADIATOR HEAVEN blog — wrote about a particular meme that had arisen in the ether back then. Since…
Reblogged: The Thing Alternative Posters – Films – ShortList Magazine. The clever folk at ShortList Magazine posted on another seminal John Carpenter flick, The Thing. Examining…
John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Reader Results: The Top Ten Greatest Horror Films (1960 – 2000). My friend and author John…
My good friend and author John Kenneth Muir has come up with another of his superb Reader Top Ten collaborations on his blog. A timely one at that for…
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. The sole reason this memory popped into my head…
Built almost entirely around Roeser’s stellar guitar riff — it being the one song I taught my children how to air guitar as toddlers (much to their mother’s chagrin) — the track has gathered fans from each subsequent decade thereafter. Certainly, enough to collect movie acclaim over the years. If you listened to the lyrics carefully, that is. Two of which utilized the driving barre chords and the poetry of the lyrics to great effect from two distinct and contrary decades. The tune reverberated best in a pair of films from the 70s and 90s in striking backdrops by two wholly different directors dealing with death in their films.
My good friend and author John Kenneth Muir has come up with another of his Reader Top Ten collaborations. This time looking back at more recent…
Almost like clockwork, my friend and author John Kenneth Muir announced another of his Reader Top Ten list collaborations. And it’s a doozy, folks: “The question…
Name someone who defined the gangster on film — and way, way before Coppola or Scorsese. Who would also go on to shape the screwball comedy, too. Might as well throw in the dark of film noir into the mix. Plus, take on that other Hollywood staple, the Western, challenging John Ford’s domain. And use John Wayne perhaps even more effectively. The answer would be one Howard Winchester Hawks (by the way, John Carpenter’s favorite director).
If last year is to be believed (seems so long ago now), I began a change, as I mentioned in April. Previously, I did not have a…
As my writing partner Rachel and I have established the habit of publishing them on the last day of each month, our final duo post review…
As I mentioned in April, last year I did not have a chance to publish a year-end piece on those blog articles I read and most…