It is the often unfortunate obligation of a movie critic to observe, analyze, and ultimately pan a great deal of different low budget productions. There are film festival productions in the thousands, ranging in quality from mediocre to horrible, and one is often inclined to wonder how they ever made it onto a popular film…
After watching a recorded Stephen King University talk in Massachusetts, the book Cujo was mentioned and I felt inclined to give the short 1983 film adaptation a look. For the Canadians here, this was the story that prompted the nickname of long time Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Curtis Joseph. Its relevance in modern culture, however,…
If you were anything like me as a child, you likely frequented the cable movie channels alone, searching desperately for some horror movie that you knew, were your parents around, that you would be roundly punished for watching. The opportunity to have a young imagination stretched beyond its somewhat benign capacities and into a world…
Some films are so well heralded that any sort of introduction or explanation seems redundant. For the longest time, I felt as though The Green Mile, a 1999 project directed by Frank Darabont and based on a Stephen King short story, was such a film. But upon a quick straw poll of my educational peers,…
Any man can tell you that life is a series of good decisions and bad decisions. The more good ones you make, the more enjoyable your life is destined to be. But, if you must make bad decisions, at least make them memorable ones, for entertainment’s sake. Unfortunately, in the case of The Stand, turning…
There comes a point in horror movies where lengthy, elaborate plot explanations begin to wear on the viewer. The game of Clue could be explained in a few minutes, and a roundabout series of suggestions might be documented, but in the end what everybody is most interested in is who actually committed the murder? 1408…
Everywhere you go, you’ll find a great deal of people who totally abhor their hometown, to the point where they will go out of their way to avoid even talking about it, or going near in at any time. The usual explanation is a poor childhood experience, and Sometimes They Come Back; a film about…
Rooster Illusion 