One of the worst parts of reaching my age is seeing so many artists and creatives from my wonder years passing away. Orbiting senior discount age had made me less sensitive to some, yet others still hit with that gut-punch feeling of true irreplaceability. Someone who’s made waves across pop culture through decades of fine…
Tag: The Twilight Zone
“What you feared would come like an explosion, is like a whisper”: Robert Redford, 1936-2025…
One of the worst aspects of aging, aside from the increasing failings of our bodies, is seeing so many icons you loved, admired and grew up with exiting life’s rollercoaster before you. Sometimes, sadly, they disembark well before their time. Others leave after a long and memorable ride. Yet, whenever that moment arrives, it never…
“It’s baaaaack…”: CreepIECon 2025 continues to chill the Inland Empire…
“They’re baaaaaaack…” From its debut in February of 2022 , the bi-annual fright-fest known as “CreepIECon” (the IE capitalized for the Inland Empire region of SoCal), returns every February and September (as “CreepIECon Aftermath”) for SoCal residents (and a few out-of-staters) to partake in their shared love of horror and the supernatural. It’s Halloween in February, or…
Retro-Musings for Halloween: Twilight Zone’s “The Grave” (1961) is an eerie and effective ghost story…
******SPECTRAL SPOILERS!****** As I’ve written in this column previously, the late-great Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone was my first true TV addiction; yes, even before “Star Trek.” Twilight Zone also whetted my then 7-year old appetite for horror TV shows such as “The Night Gallery” (another Rod Serling series) and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” Watching…
“Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983) is a colorful homage to Rod Serling’s creation but with more shadow than substance…
*****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!***** The Ghosts in the Room Few movies in my lifetime have incurred as much ill will during their production as 1983’s “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” the filming of which led to the gruesome deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children (Myca Dinh Le, Shin-Huei Chen) in 1982, after a helicopter accident was…
The man behind the modern superhero movie, Richard Donner (1930-2021)…
Making Us Believe A Man Could Fly. I still remember going to see “Superman: The Movie” back in the winter of 1978. I wasn’t a big superhero fan in those days, to be honest. Yes, I read some random Marvel comics (“Hulk,” “SpiderMan,” “Fantastic Four”), and I watched the occasional episode of “Wonder Woman” (primarily…
The ‘cold equations’ of Netflix’s “Stowaway” (2021)…
******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!******* 2021’s Space Odyssey. In a time where I’m still a bit pandemic-skittish about going back to cinemas, I decided to peruse my neglected Netflix queue when I came across “Stowaway”, a space flick released this past April. Starring Anna Kendrick (“Up in the Air”), Toni Colette (“The Sixth Sense”), Daniel Dae Kim (“Lost”)…
The Twilight Zone meets The X-Files in “The Vast of Night” (2020)…
*****FLYING SAUCER SHAPED SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** Despite the COVID-19 semi-quarantine, I haven’t really sampled many of the newer movies currently available for streaming, but there was one curious title that caught my eye; director/cowriter Andrew Patterson’s “The Vast of Night” (2020), a film recently purchased for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. From what I’d heard, the…