After a wonderful weekend celebrating pop culture at a horror convention this past weekend, I woke up this morning to the terrible news that actor Sam Neill, whose work I’ve long admired over at least five decades, has passed away at age 78–an age that seems terribly young to me these days as I tentatively…
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“Welcome (back) to Jurassic Park!” Seeing a modern classic through fresh eyes…
******BRACHIOSAUR-SIZED SPOILERS!****** My wife and I recently invited our longtime friend Kathy over for another of our ‘garage theater’ movie nights with her 12-year old son, Joshua, who is like a nephew to us (he cosplayed as “Luke” to our “Uncle Owen” and “Aunt Beru” for 2022’s Star Wars Celebration). Joshua was born well into…
“Jurassic World: Dominion” (2022) scavenges the carcass of a classic…
******SAUROPOD-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!****** “Jurassic Park” (1993) 1993 was a great year for movies; “Schindler’s List,” “Philadelphia,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Tombstone,” “The Fugitive,” “Hocus Pocus” (don’t judge!) and a little movie called “Jurassic Park”, based on the popular novel by the late Michael Crichton, which did for dinosaurs what Spielberg’s own “JAWS” did for sharks,…
2009’s “Daybreakers” is a sci-fi take on vampirism with new relevance today…
Exposure. Just over ten years ago, I went to see an intriguing, low-budget ($20 million) horror/sci-fi flick from two guys I’d never heard of… brothers Michael & Peter Spierig; two young filmmakers who’d crafted an intriguing story of humans being an endangered species in a very near-future (only ten years away) where a plague from…