On THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
One of the more bizarre film-related occurrences of our time is the ascension of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION to Great Film status
The Dollar Babies
All about Stephen King’s Dollar Baby program, and the festival it inspired
SURVIVOR TYPE
The 2012 film adaptation of Stephen King’s most outrageous story
On DARK FORCES
To many this is THE standout anthology. But is DARK FORCES really that great a book? Let’s see.
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
2019: The Year in Bedlam
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
The 2010s
Apologies for the brutal honesty, but regarding the 2010s I have this to say: What a lousy decade for entertainment!
THE TOMMYKNOCKERS
This is the widely hailed worst novel ever written by Stephen King, and it is indeed pretty lousy
William Goldman: 1931-2018
Yet another tragic celebrity death? I’m afraid so. The dear departed this time around is the great William Goldman, one of my longtime heroes