In a somewhat shorter marathon, I’ll be taking a significant interest into the films that transcend the typical boundaries of entertainment and cast a glimpse into the souls of the authors. Stories with a deeper message than “Good versus evil” have always been a particular favorite of mine, not simply because the writing is, on…
I’ll be honest, I didn’t get the opportunity to watch a new film to review this week. Struck by glorious inspiration, the majority of my time went into writing, either for a graduate school application or my novel. I really hope that I didn’t mix any of the two up with each other, or else…
As my seemingly endless period of novel-based cinema comes to a close this week, I’d like to share one of my personal favorites of the King collection, in what I consider to be a fitting end to the saga here at Strange Bacon. Misery, a 1990 film, was released very shortly after the book was…
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,…
Rooster Illusion 