So you read "The Fault in Our Stars" or watched John Green on YouTube, and, if you're like me, you probably thought, "I would read or watch anything this mind produced for public consumption." Even if it's a 200-page nonfiction thesis on tuberculosis arguing why it should be Public Enemy No. 1 ...
In hindsight, NATO was an unnecessarily confusing acronym for a trade organization representing movie theater owners. For 60 years, the National Association of Theatre Owners has promoted interests of movie theaters, from the biggest chains to the one screen mom and pop shops. They've also regularly gotten mail and phone calls intended for the other NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But the theater owner's organization is looking to the future, with a new name and a refocused mission. The group will now be known as Cinema United, president and CEO Michael O'Leary told The ...
Since I already did a comedic horror movie a few weeks ago, it probably won’t be too surprising to learn I’m not a huge fan of scary movies. Things that try for jump scares just for the sake of scaring someone isn’t the cinematic experience I’m in for, but I get that there are people ...
Originally, I was planning on reviewing the new movie “Flight Risk” as a tense psychological thriller is more my speed for a “scary movie” and I’m intrigued by a movie that has a cast of only three people. Alas, the release date was pushed back to a much odder January 24, 2025 ...
We’re halfway to Halloween already as the month of October continues to fly right by. This is a month that ends with a spooky bang on Halloween and I have a lineup of scary movie suggestions ready for perusal on that very day. The month itself isn’t really known to be thematically scary, ...
Friday, Sept. 27, 2004, less than three weeks after the passing of James Earl Jones, Dame Maggie Smith passed away at the age of 89. I can’t even pretend to have known the famed actor in any meaningful way, and yet I felt a great sadness reading the news. Similar to Jones, the reports that ...
