Read This, Watch That: Horror Double Features
By Angie Barry
Ever read a book and think, “Wow, I wish there was a movie of this”?
On-Screen
Scream, You’re a Star: Susan George in 1971
By Brian Greene
October 17, 2019Susan George (born 1950) had a string of movie roles under her belt before 1971. In those early film appearances, the gorgeous blonde with the alluringly pretty eyes and nice legs was sometimes used largely as cinematic eye candy. And while there were varying degrees of more dramatic roles for George through that slew of…
Supernatural, the Final Season (Spoilers and Predictions Ahead)
By Jess Montgomery
October 9, 2019Here is my not-so-secret secret guilty pleasure: I love the television show Supernatural. In 2013, our older daughter was home on holiday break from college, and one night she wondered if I’d like to stay up and watch a show I’d never heard of—Supernatural—though by then the show had been on television for eight years.…
10 Genre-Bending Thrillers
By Madeline Stevens
August 13, 2019Most of my favorite stories, whether written or on the big screen, have one thing in common: it’s difficult to put them in a box. Shamelessly borrowing tropes from multiple genres and subverting expected plot structures serves to expand our understanding of how narrative works. As a result, suspense is even more suspenseful for being…
Culture Clashes and Nightmares: The Horror/Suspense Film Collaborations of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur
By Brian Greene
July 8, 2019Join Brian Greene as he revisits the trio of horror movies that resulted from the collaboration of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur in the early 1940s at RKO Pictures. In 1942, film industry professional Val Lewton (1904-51) was hired by RKO Pictures to head up its new horror movie initiative. Lewton, who had recently worked…
Looking Back at Netflix and Marvel’s Superhero/Crime shows
By Dave Richards
June 14, 2019Join Dave Richards for a Marvel-Netflix retrospective as he recalls some of the most notable comic adaptations and looks ahead to next steps for the series. On June 14th a fun, fascinating, and often frustrating era of television comes to a close with the release of the third and final season of Marvel/Netflix’s Jessica Jones,…
The Top 5 New Crime Shows Coming This Fall
By Abe Friedtanzer
June 6, 2019The broadcast television networks unveiled their fall lineups recently, and there’s quite a bit of crime and mystery to be found on each channel. FBI, Magnum, P.I. and The Rookie are the only freshman crime shows set to return for more, while NCIS and Law & Order: SVU enter their seventeenth and twenty-first seasons, respectively,…
Game of Thrones Series Finale Review: “The Iron Throne”
By Joe Brosnan
May 20, 2019Before we get into the finale, I want to spend some time appreciating the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say it changed my life. I’ve built friendships around it… And drinking games. I’ve spent countless hours discussing theories and what-ifs. And I’ve been lucky enough to share my…
Tribeca: Georgetown (2019)
By Joe Bendel
May 18, 2019In real life, they were named Albrecht Muth and Viola Drath, but the film calls them Ulrich Mott and Elsa Brecht, which maybe does him a small favor. According to the New York Times magazine, their marriage was “Georgetown’s Worst,” but that seems slightly unfair. They had things in common, like their German roots and…
Tribeca: Charlie Says (2019)
By Joe Bendel
May 16, 2019In a way, he considered himself the fifth Beatle, but he wasn’t Billy Preston or Stuart Sutcliffe, so it was a problem. According to Charles Manson’s twisted mythology, the Beatles were the four angels who came to Earth to warn humanity of all their tawdry problems and he was the fifth angel who would fix…