December 27th, 2014: Touch of Evil
Mike and Susie Vargas (Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh) find their honeymoon on the US-Mexico border interrupted by an assassination. "Mike" is Ramon Miguel Vargas, a Mexican Narcotics Officer, and...
View ArticleDecember 31, 2014: Strange Days (1995)
Strange Days is a disturbing dystopian vision of the near future from 1995. The anarchic 1999 Los Angeles it depicts is an over-the-top depraved riot of leather and goth and Sony MiniDiscs. With...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: Part 1: Before Fall Fall Fun
Fall is coming. This is the word on all of our lips since…well, at least since July. That’s when I started working on my Fall 2018 Horror Binge Plan. I checked the formula, I made sure I covered my...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: Part 2: September
September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list...
View ArticleThe Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 3
October 15th: Back in the summer of 2003, Freddy vs. Jason hit the screens and I went to see it along with my friend and then roommate Dr. Kimenstein. In the process I learned that Kimenstein had...
View ArticleProfessor’s Fall Journal: October Week 4
October 22nd: I borrowed the Cujo audio book from my local library’s Overdrive eBook collection. I’ve never seen the film (other than bits of pieces of it that I was either too scared to watch or too...
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