Sean Penn directed the movie INTO THE WILD in 2007. The film was based on the book of the same title by John Krakauer. Both told the story of 24-year-old Christopher McCandless who, disillusioned with the trappings of modern civilization, decided to make like Thoreau and live off the land. He hiked deep into the…
Month: June 2020
Lynch, on Lynch (and Other Stuff)
David Lynch has been busy during the quarantine. Hopefully working on plans for a new season of TWIN PEAKS. He wouldn’t tell us if he was, though. He had the third season cooking for 25 years in his head while telling fans that he hadn’t even thought of such a thing. But he’s been making…
Happy Birthday to the Master!
As I sit typing these words, it is June 29th. This would have been Ray Harryhausen’s 100th birthday. The pioneer, the trendsetter and trailblazer, the master. Cinema as it exists today would not exist if it hadn’t been for Harryhausen. That’s not hyperbolic overstatement. It is a fact. Happy birthday, Ray—and thank you. Thinking about…
THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Part 29
This is not to say I did not entertain my own terrors at that moment. I have before mentioned my fear that the beast that possessed me would not, despite the gravity of the injury involved, allow me to die. What if, I thought as I sat there, the Hand did catch me, did crush…
STRANGER THINGS Country, Part One
It became obvious to me some weeks ago that if I was going to salvage an enjoyable summer in the midst of the ‘Rona madness, it was going to have to become a summer of drive-in movies and roadtrips. I took just such a roadtrip this past weekend to several of the filming locations for…
STRANGER THINGS Country, Part Three: The Battle of Starcourt Mall
Starcourt Mall in Hawkins is really Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia. It’s a beautiful mall, but it’s a ghost town these days, y’all, and not because of the ‘Rona pandemic. Almost every store in the place is closed. (And maybe the spirit of the Mindflayer!)
STRANGER THINGS Country, Part Two
More photos from my roadtrip to the filming locations for STRANGER THINGS! As a little bit of extra color commentary, as I was leaving the school I decided to drive around it, to see if there was something I might have missed. As I drove around behind the gymnasium, I interrupted a prostitute busy earning…
Kongzilla
This past week brought the disappointing news that GODZILLA VS. KONG has been pushed back an entire year to summer of 2021. Which sucks. A tiny nugget of other kaiju-related news also came out. Michael Dougherty, director of GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, shared a photo of his Kongzilla figure. This has people speculating that…
THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF Chapter 28
The giant hand stood in the midst of a large circular chamber, rising some fifteen feet above us, almost reaching the ceiling of the room. I had to admire the artistry that had rendered it. It looked so real, like the hand of a giant man turned from living flesh into stone, so smooth and…
Your Weekly Dose of Stoopid
If people are supposed to be socially distancing in real life—emphasis on the “supposed to be” part, as I’ve observed little in the way of it on my occasional outings—then actors in movies have to be socially distant, too. That means actors can never get closer to each other than six feet. No kisses, no…