A Mind on Fire

(Spoiler free as possible) Sleep. Some of us get enough of it while others don’t. For those with insomnia it’s a precious commodity. With sleep one hopes dreams will come. Scientis…

Believe it or not movies were released in 2021. A lot of them never made it to your local theater because independent features have rarely played well at the big chain theater cent…

(SOME SPOILERS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED) A cottage industry of philosophy books sprouted up after The Matrix was originally released in 1999. A bookstore could have had an entire secti…

What do we mean when we say “visionary?” Who is a visionary? The Webster Dictionary defines the word as: “having or marked by foresight and imagination” or “one having unusual fore…

We live in a time when every character needs an origin story and every franchise needs a prequel. Whether this need is based on actual audience demand or if it's a demand created b…

The Exorcist and New Hollywood The Seventies was a great decade for movies. Directors like Francis For Coppola, Bob Rafelson, and Hal Ashby were creating movies with a freedom uns…

Revenge, as they say, is a dish best served cold. In the movie world it’s also served hot with blood, bullets, guns, and knives. It comes in explosions and implosions. It's sliced …

The 80s and 90s seemed, from an outward looking perspective, to be dominated by the ongoing conflict between the IRA (Irish Republican Army, used here as a catch-all for the differ…

Red River has been called the greatest Western of all time. Discounting Howard Hawk's clean up job on Howard Hughes's The Outlaw, Red River was his first foray in the Western genre…

John Carpenter's The Thing was not a critical or commercial success when it was originally released in 1982. It was only after repeated showings on pay cable channels and VHS that …