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Category: movies

  • Fright Week Films: The Simpsons Treehouse of Terror

    Fright Week Films: The Simpsons Treehouse of Terror

    I am aware I titled this series Fright Week Films and this will be a second consecutive TV-related post, but I did not realize that my fancy this week would lean that direction. Besides, The Simpsons’ Treehouses of Terror, now in their 37th iteration, are Halloween staples. Despite not watching a regular The Simpsons episode…

  • Fright Week Films: Dracula (1992)

    Fright Week Films: Dracula (1992)

    When I recently finished listening to Audible’s fully casted adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I wanted to stay in that world. Enter Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula from 1992.

  • Fright Week Films: Crystal Lake (2026)

    Fright Week Films: Crystal Lake (2026)

    The Friday the 13th franchise is one of my comfort watch collections. They are campy flicks where you know what to expect but still get enough mystery around the character of Jason to feed the imagination. They are slasher horror films with supernatural roots. Peacock’s Crystal Lake is a prequel series that goes back to…

  • Fright Week Films: Evil Dead (2013)

    Fright Week Films: Evil Dead (2013)

    I cannot claim to be a die-hard Evil Dead fan. I have seen the original and Evil Dead II, and I stuck with Ash vs Evil Dead for a bit, but I do not know the ins and outs of the lore or even much outside the basics of how the films connect. The new…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Happy Death Day

    You may watch the trailer and come away with low expectations. That was me, and I did not expect to be surprised by a movie combining slasher and time loop tropes. Alas, I was.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Halloween (1978)

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Halloween (1978)

    1978’s Halloween is one of my favorite scary movies. While I’ve watched it enough to neutralize any of the “scare”, it’s a film to be appreciated for its legacy. The look, movements, and invincibility of Michael Myers is synonymous with Halloween.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Minority Report

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Minority Report

    Science fiction is a great genre for bombastic social commentary. You can take a singular topic and make a whole world revolve around it. Then, because sci-fi wraps everything in a neat package, the consumers get the thought provoking insights without even realizing it. When Minority Report first came out in 2002, all I saw…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: The Great Outdoors

    Saturday Morning Cinema: The Great Outdoors

    The Great Outdoors is peak 80’s comedy starring some of the decade’s best. It’s perfect for a Saturday watch when you just need to smile.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Toy Story 3

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Toy Story 3

    With a recent viewing of Toy Story 3, I realized how brutal of a film it is and how the Toy Story films are more than toys getting into mischief and landing in the toy box of the next worthy child.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Tremors

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Tremors

    It’s like The Floor Is Lava coupled with a “there’s something in the water” vibe. Ending up in the lava is bad, but if it doesn’t get you, something in the lava will eventually eat you and finish the job. Sounds delightful, right? If you’re only watching a fictitious tale and not actually living it,…