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 […]
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I started work on my first new screenplay in over a year today. I was afraid that I’d have trouble getting started, but it turns out it’s just like riding a bike. If you’re riding that bike into the teeth of a 50 mph wind. Uphill. In a driving snowstorm. Still, it felt good to […]
On Friday, I’ll be introducing Criminally Ignored, a new column dedicated to great films that either received no theatrical or barely there theatrical releases. While this sounds like a wide net I’m casting, the idea is to narrow things down by focusing on movies that no one saw and have failed to become cult favorites […]