October 19, 2012 - 1:23pm
It's a Frank double feature!
As October marches on, we inch ever closer to the Main Event, the night of ghosts and ghouls, monsters and the macabre: All Hallow's Eve. It is tradition in this greatest of months to spend the cool evenings cuddled up on the couch – or in the theater – with a scary movie. I, in...
October 12, 2012 - 10:21am
Don't believe? You will...
I wish somebody in the city, or the surrounding area, would open a classic drive-in theater specifically to showcase classic horror and grindhouse films. I'm no entrepreneur so I don't know what would go into this endeavor, but its seems like a pretty solid business idea. Our city has a...
September 7, 2012 - 10:56am
The classic tale of time-traveling shenanigans!
I am not by any means a science-fiction nerd, but there are certain genre tropes I find myself putting a lot of thought into. For a while, for instance, I was obsessed with convincing all my friends of how, were it possible, they should not, under any circumstances, allow themselves to be...
August 24, 2012 - 10:45am
Last Sunday, one Eugene Wesley Roddenberry celebrated his 81st birthday (or would have, if he hadn't passed away in 1991). Mr. Roddenberry is the man responsible for one of the biggest facets of science-fiction geekdom: Star Trek, which existed a full eleven years before its nemesis, Star Wars...
August 10, 2012 - 4:35pm
It's a mustache frenzy at the O.K. Corral!
I have previously discussed the state of the Western genre in American cinema. There are some mighty fine masterpieces – John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, for instance. In my opinion, though, the Italians who tackled the form showed us its true potential – directors such...