You can learn a lot about a person from looking at his footprints. The discovery of a whopping 257 footprints left by Neanderthals along the Normandy shore in France some 80,000 years ago tells scientists that there was a group of between ten and thirteen individuals, with most of them beings kids and teenagers. There…
Month: September 2019
Concerning CARNIVAL ROW
Livestreaming is the way of the future. I get that. But I despise it with every fiber of my being, as does the collective, I am sure, of that small percentage of the population unable to livestream due to geographic constraints. We can’t get cable and our Internet feed comes from a satellite, which means…
DNA Is Undeniable, But Not All-Inclusive
You probably read the headlines, even if you didn’t watch the new Travel Channel documentary. They’ve provided scientific proof that the Loch Ness Monster isn’t a dinosaur or a giant catfish or a big sturgeon. If it exists at all, the results say, it must be a big eel. A really big eel. This is…
The Eyepatch Connection
It’s because TWIN PEAKS looms so large in my mind and heart that I forget. Actor Everett McGill will always be Big Ed Hurley to me, but before he was Big Ed he was in DUNE, and he was the evil Reverend Lester Lowe in SILVER BULLET; that is to say, he was the werewolf.…
A Visit to the Full Moon Cineplex
I’d been wanting to pay a visit to this establishment ever since I first learned of its existence earlier this year. This past weekend, to celebrate Friday the 13th, I made the drive to check out the double-feature of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART THREE (in its original glorious 80s red-and-blue glasses 3D format!) and FRIDAY…
Revisiting the Classics: SILVER BULLET
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and THE HOWLING are the first films to come to mind when one thinks of the greatest werewolf movies of the 1980s, and rightfully so. But SILVER BULLET, based on the Stephen King long-short story CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF and released in 1985, is right up there near the top…
Is Netflix canceling STRANGER THINGS?
I’ve seen this rumor floating around the Interwebs the past few days. I should stress that this is still just a rumor. It may, as has been claimed, come from “reliable sources” as such are judged to be by the people making the claims, but in truth the only *reliable* sources for this is the…
THE HUNT Part 10
“I’m telling you, that wasn’t there before!” Arly said. “I’m not crazy!” They’d gone into the cave and made their way to the drop-off, where Saint had tied the rope around a big stalagmite—(“Is that safe?” Roth had asked. “Shouldn’t you secure that with something? Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be done?” “You worry…
Storm Area 51 Goes Bust
First the dipstick who started the whole thing tried to start a music festival instead. When he realized that music festivals don’t just happen, that they require a lot of work and planning, he then cancelled the event, and to save face he put the blame on other people. But the ball had already started…
Movie Review: RAMBO: LAST BLOOD
Go see this movie. Go. See. This. Movie. You may recall that for a time there were plans for Rambo to face off against a half-human, half-animal genetic experiment run amok in the fifth film of the franchise. That plan was eventually scrapped in favor of the plot for this one, wherein Rambo is pitted…