“I just want to tell stories…” The real Edward D. Wood Jr. was already well-known to me in 1994, because I’d long been a devotee of crappy cinema. I still remember renting “Plan Nine From Outer Space” (1956) on laserdisc back in the mid 1980s and just about crying with laughter. I later sought some…
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1989: The Summer of “Batman”…
Bat-Then. It was 30 years ago, and a very different time. At my then-age of 22 I felt the carefree hubris of youth. I legally rode a motorcycle without a helmet (because I was an idiot), I was renting a single room from some friends of mine, and I went to the movies a lot…
This is Halloween: 25 years of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”…
When I was a kid, Halloween was (and still is) the coolest thing ever. It allowed us as kids to cosplay for an entire night (long before the word ‘cosplay’ was ever a thing) and we got paid in candy for our efforts! The thrill of the hunt; going to stranger’s houses, awing at their cool…