As part of The Summer of Stephen King series, River Oaks Theatre will show PET SEMATARY on June 10 at 6 pm, followed by a discussion with @ericvespe.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @comptonwrites.bsky.social and me. The panel will be moderated by Brazons Bookstore's Keaton Patterson.
I needed a movie vacation - not a vacation from movies (despite working at a movie theater, watching a movie is a luxury I don't get very often), but a vacation to do nothing but watch movies. This year's Overlook Film Festival delivered and then some. Thanks for a much-needed weekend getaway!
Coming this May to Graveyard Shift: A whole month of JAWS rip-offs. From "Jaws with Claws" to CRUEL JAWS, we're going full sharksploitation, with a few added creatures added in. Check out the full line-up of our May programming at www.theriveroakstheatre.com.
Imagine thinking a place called Steak ‘n Shake is healthy
I revisited ARCHIE VS PREDATOR II yesterday. What should be a cheesy gimmick twice-baked-over is instead a wonderful exploration of what it feels like to be replaced by a newer generation and how it can become a freeing experience. Its a damn good book that luxuriates in deep-cut Archie continuity.
Pup pic.
I’ve been reading a bunch of Dark Horse’s PREDATOR comics from the ‘90s and they are a mixed bag when it comes to quality but the best one might be the comic where a yautja is bested by a Cajun good ol’ boy and turned into gumbo.
Let’s remember the time that Predator found salvation though the Lord.
Houston's River Oaks Theater in May is celebrating those big summer movies of your childhood - films like E.T., the STAR WARS Original Trilogy, JAWS, the Indiana Jones films, even ALIEN/ALIENS! And many more. Houston, check them out here: www.theriveroakstheatre.com/coming-soon
They did! Thus, the age-old question: Is it better to have a white dude playing an Egyptian mummy, or have a white girl playing a white mummy cursed by evil Egyptians.
Even though their accomplishments pale in comparison to the time we published a story about the best ways to seduce your clone (and then, subsequently, how to deal with the moral conundrum of whether it would be considered gay sex or masturbation) published in the TAMU student newspaper.
A friend from college self-published a book under a pseudonym a few years ago. That book become a viral sensation on BookTok and was promptly acquired by a larger publisher. Now it's being turned into a television series by a major streamer. I'm very proud of them...
Tom Cruise will continue to appropriate cultures until morale improves.
Lee Cronin knows how to make a gnarly film and his Mummy movie had me squirming, so mission accomplished, but this movie proudly sits on a shelf alongside THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA as weird cultural throwbacks. You think we’ve progressed as a society and then - boom! - “What if Mummy was white girl?”
Sure, setting a Mummy movie inside the home of a white family in New Mexico might seem weird or might be even be considered, gasp, cultural appropriation but let’s not forget the proud history of cultural appropriation in Mummy movies. Remember when Tom Cruise became a mummy in his 2017 film? I do!
Yautja, Yahweh… call me Dan Brown because I’m seeing religious patterns in works of art from the past.
Let’s remember the time that Predator found salvation though the Lord.
Cover A of OF THE EARTH, a new Image Comic series out on May 20. The cover is by Charlie Adlard and features a medium close up of a woman reaching for a gun in her waistband.
Cover B by Jacob Phillips for Of the Earth, a new Image Comic series out on May 20. The cover is a contrast of bright orange and deepest black. In that, we see the image of a face dripping with oil.
We are fast approaching FOC for my new @imagecomics.com with Charlie Adlard called OF THE EARTH. It's an intense eco-horror story - imagine Wake in Fright or Blood Simple meets Tremors and The Thing.
Anyway! I think it's good! I *think*! Please pre-order it at your LCS!
Interesting that Neon is not involved.
Anyway, I hope this movie is about Longlegs learning to love himself.
I should not be allowed to spend my money.
I’d rather see a remake of one of the weirder HOWLING sequels. Bring on a remake of THE FREAKS, THE MARSUPIALS, or NEW MOON RISING.
I love living in a city where you can screen the live-action SUPER MARIO BROS on a Monday night and somebody will call you up, asking if they can display their collection of screen-used props from the film.
I love living in a city where you can screen the live-action SUPER MARIO BROS on a Monday night and somebody will call you up, asking if they can display their collection of screen-used props from the film.
A huge thank you to the Overlook Film Festival. This last year has not been a great one, for many reasons, and what I most wanted from this weekend was to watch a ton of good films and recharge my emotional and creative battery. And that’s exactly what the festival delivered. I needed this.
HOKUM is a wonderful, wickedly creepy new gift from Damian McCarthy. A horror author finds himself hunted by a witch after he pokes his head into too many dark crevices of a creepy hotel, his soul. Feels at once both restrained and full-tilt spooky. Loved it.
When you cast John Goodman in your Coen Brothers inspired crime comedy, is it considered stolen valor? Good thing CHILIE FINGER is a fun one. Judy Greer leads a game cast in a film about a woman who finds a finger in her food at a fast food restaurant. Always great to see Bryan Cranston being funny.
Ben Wheatley is a cinematic chameleon. It’s wild to watch NORMAL, his new Bob Odenkirk film that’s basically HOT FUZZ meets RIO BRAVO and consider this is the same guy who made KILL LIST and SIGHTSEERS. The film is a lot of fun and, thankfully, not the NOBODY clone I had feared it would be.
Jurassic Park - 1993
Director - Steven Spielberg
BUDDY is probably not going to be for everybody but it is definitely my cup of cinema. A dark riff on children’s television with boundless imagination, the film is Casper Kelly at his strongest. I don’t as expecting it to be funny but the film’s heart really surprised me.
Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and their kids direct and star in FAMILY MOVIE, a horror movie about a family of artists who direct and star in a horror movie. It’s a cute movie, especially because it seems like they enjoy spending time around each other and that seems like a rare thing in Hollywood.
