Month: April 2020

I can say now with enthusiasm that I am a Mike Flanagan mark. He did DOCTOR SLEEP, and damn was that a rockin’ flick. He did THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. He did OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL and OCULUS. And he did GERALD’S GAME. He tends to cast the same actors over and over, just…

I read that “people on Twitter” have been pressuring Disney to release THE NEW MUTANTS to Disney+. Those people need to put a sock in it. If it goes to Disney+ it’ll be even longer before I get to see it, if I ever do. I can’t livestream and who knows how long it would…

The best werewolf movies ever made? We’ll be the judge of that! First let’s list the listing provided us by Collider. (Wait, are these supposed to be in order of greatness? Descending or ascending? The article doesn’t say. We’ll assume, then, that they’re in no particular order. And Collider already gets one black mark, as…

Can you believe I’d never seen this one? Somehow or other, despite me being aware of its existence for years, it somehow managed to slip through the cracks—until now, that is. Thanks to the coronavirus quarantine, I have nothing but free time to catch up on all those movies I’d always meant to watch but…

I just wrote an article wherein I mentioned my visit to Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum in Boulder City, Nevada. (You can take a guided virtual tour of the Museum by clicking here. And help them out during this time of pandemic by contributing to their gofundme account here.) It was during the same road trip…

I remember the first time I ever saw a Roman soldier. I was still very young, five or six years old. I remember that we, Father, my brothers and I, had traveled to the nearest actual town to try to sell a pair of donkeys. I do not recall why I had been allowed to…

Alabama gets a lot of bad publicity, and deservedly so, I confess. We rank dead last in education and first in support of Donald Trump—and the two are most certainly connected. We have pockets of racism and a couple of years ago a man and his daughter were arrested for living in incest. (True story.…

THE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH on the History Channel is my favorite show on television right now. I can’t get enough of this one. Since the series debuted, and in a timeframe that has covered a few weeks from the summer of 2019 (oh, those glorious days seem so long ago now!), the investigators have…

This coronavirus shutdown sucks for everybody. But it sucks more for some than for others. Those who depend on public gatherings to make money—like movie theaters, restaurants, Theatre companies (like mine), and museums—are going to feel the sting the most strongly. Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum in Boulder City, Nevada, is not immune. Tom has asked…

Thirty years. That’s absolutely mind-blowing to me. How in the hell did thirty years slip past me so quickly? Like sands through the hourglass and all that. (But damn, sand, slow it up a bit, will ya?!) TWIN PEAKS debuted on ABC on Sunday, April 8th, 1990. I remember it so well. I’d never seen…