For those of you who didn’t check out my 2013 Favorites list, I’ll provide a quick explanation of how I choose the films that make the cut. I don’t call my list a “best of” because I never see enough of the films released in a given year to feel justified in claiming some kind […]
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The following review originally was written for The Parallax Review, a film review site of which I was the co-founder and managing editor. I have decided to collect the writings I did for The Parallax Review and preserve them here. I will be posting a few of these older pieces every week. My review of […]
The following review originally was written for The Parallax Review, a film review site of which I was the co-founder and managing editor. I have decided to collect the writings I did for The Parallax Review and preserve them here. I will be posting a few of these older pieces every week. My review of […]
On March 9th through the 10th, the Sci-Fi Spectacular was held at the Portage Theater in Chicago. I am a veteran of events put on by Movieside in my wonderful city. I’ve attended The Massacre for the last five years, even flying in for two of them when I spent two depressing years living in […]
For the fifth year in a row, I attended The Massacre. In past years it has been held at the Music Box Theatre, but this year, for the first time, it was held at the Portage Theater. I attribute this change in venue to helping me stick around for the entire 24 hours. Unlike the […]
It’s a very risky project when a filmmaker tries to make a genre film that wears a political message on its sleeve. But that’s exactly what co-writer/producer/director Larry Fessenden did with The Last Winter. Unlike other films that have attempted to merge an ecological message with horror elements (I’m looking at you The Happening), Fessenden […]
Obsessive Movie Nerd 