2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
TV Flashback: A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
The Christmas ghost story is a British tradition that found its ideal screen capture in the BBC’s A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
OPPOSABLE THUMBS: HOW SISKEL & EBERT CHANGED MOVIES FOREVER
The first book about the ultra-combative, never-to-be-repeated Siskel & Ebert dynamic
TV Flashback: YOGI AT THE MOVIES
Yogi Berra, film critic?
VAMPIRA: ABOUT SEX, DEATH AND TAXES
A now-obscure Finnish made documentary from 1995 about the one and only Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira
TV Flashback: DARK DREAMERS
I’m not sure how Stanley Wiater managed to convince a Canadian TV channel to broadcast a show comprised entirely of interviews with horror writers and filmmakers, but I’m glad he did
BORDELLO OF BLOOD
The second, and last, TALES FROM THE CRYPT big screen spinoff
TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
Stephen King adapts THE KINGDOM, and not very well
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
GHOSTWATCH
Purportedly the most controversial telefilm ever broadcast by the BBC, a mock documentary about ghosts that aired on Halloween night, 1992