October 24, 2006 – 12:00 pm
November 16, 1984. Where are you when the first Nightmare came out? Me? I’m working at Movies Twin in Santa Fe. It’s a quaint (even for the time) twin theater in De Vargas Mall at the edge of town. A handful of us are on staff that night, the night before the film’s release. We’re […]
October 23, 2006 – 1:58 pm
We’re down to the final week before Halloween. That’s right, tomorrow will be seven days before the big day. And guess what? There are seven movies in the Nightmare On Elm Street series. It’s just one of those weird things. I happen to love that series, warts and all. So I’ve decided to get really […]
August 30, 2006 – 9:36 am
Website traffic is through the roof all of a sudden. It’s the ol’ Black Dahlia again. Do an image search for “Black Dahlia” and you get this. The very first picture on the page is on my own site. Click on that and you’re pulled into my page about the delicate skin. I wrote the […]
I guarantee you my script is better. From Variety: ROME — The world preem of Brian De Palma’s James Ellroy adaptation “The Black Dahlia” will open the 63rd Venice Film Festival in competition on Aug. 30. Based on the 1947 L.A. murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short and focusing on the investigation by two former […]
The Descent is on its way to American theaters at last. And the ad campaign is taking a bold Philippe Halsman approach. Check out the one-sheet: A coworker tells me about this poster yesterday, describing it as a weird, interpretive dance image. Real artsy. One look, of course, and I realize there’s no interpretive dancing […]
It’s about time someone comes along with a decent horror flick. Neil Marshall, the Brit responsible for Dog Soldiers (which no one really saw,) has upped the ante. His new one is about six women, adventure sportswomen all, who dive into some hithertofore unexplored caves in what looks like New England. What transpires from the […]
October 17, 2005 – 11:59 am
Once again, the skies have opened up over Los Angeles. Seems to be getting an early start this year, and I was just getting into that tiny little bit of Fall. And hey, speaking of Fall, does anyone remember seeing that movie Fall, by Eric Schaeffer? I love Eric Schaeffer. And I hate him. He’s […]
September 13, 2005 – 8:54 am
Okay, okay, last post on this whole River Tam Notebook thing, I promise. But after all that, I found yet another page in the notebook. And if this isn’t “Whedonesque” I don’t know what is. I’ll bet anything this was written for Summer’s benefit between takes.
September 13, 2005 – 12:20 am
I’m not a member of Whedonesque, the Joss Whedon website (can’t cram any more folks into the stateroom) but I kinda want to address a few of the questions raised on the comments to the post about the River Tam notebook. First off, I’ve been corrected a number of times about Joss’s being on television […]
September 12, 2005 – 11:25 am
So do you know who River Tam is? She’s the enigmatic stowaway on the Firefly class starship Serenity, and as trailers seem to promise, she blossoms into full kick-ass mode in the upcoming film of the same name. She’s got a past, as so many enigmatic kick-ass characters do, and that past involves long-term imprisonment […]
February 27, 2005 – 12:34 am
It’s Oscar time again and I couldn’t care less. I suppose I’d be a little more engaged if I’d seen even a quarter of the movies that are nominated. I used to love the Oscars. I would make a big deal about guessing who should win, who would win and where I was going to […]
January 7, 2005 – 9:40 pm
I’m making a conscious effort to catch up on my movie watching. I’m so far behind I still think Valley Girl is a hip modern look at a cutting-edge subculture. So a year and a half after it breached into American theaters I finally see Whale Rider today. Man, it’s a good thing I watch […]
October 9, 2004 – 1:52 am
John Kerry speaks with the daughter of Dean Halsey.I stop by Trader Joe’s this evening to get strawberries and whipping cream in honor of Juliet’s birthday. Then I listen to most of the debate as I run a few errands. In doing so I miss the Medicare exchange. That’s a relief, though on the whole, […]
