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Second Breakfast’s Second Opinion on ‘Crimson Peak’

Yeah, I’m doing a second opinion article. For the record, SciFridays is a great column, and this is the first time, I think, that I have ever strongly disagreed with anything Sarah has ever said in the last three years of writing it. But gee whiz do I ever disagree this time. Crimson Peak (2015)…

November 1, 2015 in Movie Review, Second Breakfast.

Saturday Morning Cartoons/Octoberween: “Coraline” From Book to Film

Happy Halloween to all our readers! I hope you have an appropriately spooky night. Why not finish it off with a scary story? This website is dedicated to film and TV, but it would be remiss of us to not mention the printed origins from which many films come. I love books as much as…

October 31, 2015 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Saturday Morning Cartoons.

A Bomb in the Lasagna: Reassessing ‘Friday the 13th (1980)’

I watched Friday the 13th for the first time four years ago. I did not care for it. A devotee to Halloween and to John Carpenter in general, my initial viewing left the impression of a mostly forgettable Carpenter rip-off remarkable only in the inexplicable way it somehow launched a spat of bad sequels almost every single year for…

October 28, 2015 in A Bomb in the Lasagna, Movie Review, Octoberween.

Second Breakfast/Octoberween: Vincent Price TRIPLE-Feature Poe-Fest

Because I am not made of stone. I am a man, and all men have their weaknesses. Mine is Vincent Price. Apparently. Anyway, this week’s climactic Octoberween extravaganza brings you not just a triple-feature, but one of tripled excellence. It’s not just an Edgar Allan Poe triple-feature, not just a Roger Corman triple-feature, not just…

October 25, 2015 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

/horror gets ready for “Audition”/”Odishon” (1999)

Baddie: It’s always the quiet ones, amIright? Lesson: Have a long engagement. I spent a lot of time preparing myself for Audition because it has…a reputation. Regardless, I am ready. The film opens immediately with heartbreak as a boy brings his very very sick mother presents in the hospital. “Get well soon Mom” reads the card. He arrives as…

October 23, 2015 in Octoberween, SciFriday, slash_horror.

Capes on Camera: ‘Hellboy (2004)’

Hellboy might be my ideal comic book. Pulling inspiration from the works of Lovecraft, Jack Kirby, and folk tales and mythology from around the globe, it covers the bases of Things Will Standish Likes in ways that media rarely does. I mean, I have room in heart for a lot of comic characters, but very few…

October 22, 2015 in Capes on Camera, Movie Review, Octoberween.

Second Breakfast: ‘The Martian’… Yeah!

This has never happened before. It may never happen again. This could shock you. I don’t know. Do you have a high shock tolerance? You have my apologies if this shocks you. Ladies and gentlemen (I know I have some readers in both categories, although ladies do, predominantly, love Second Breakfast), I have an announcement…

October 18, 2015 in Movie Review, Second Breakfast.

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