20 Years Later: Does It Hold Up? A Revisit of Titanic, Face/Off, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Fifth Element, and Men In Black.

Nostalgia is a strange beast as it has the wonderful capability of giving everything in your past a rose-colored tint and smoothing over a whole bunch of things that were problematic or just plainly sucked. In many ways 1997 is peak nostalgia for my movie watching days as it represents the year when I went …

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B-Movie Glory: Stephen King Marathon

Stephen King, other than being a famous horror fiction writer, is a famous fan of horror movies, using many of the horror movies of his youth as inspiration for his horror novels. Things have naturally come full circle in that his novels, short stories, and novellas have become a treasure trove for Hollywood, starting with Brian …

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B-Movie Glory: Vincent Price-a-thon

With all respect to Misters Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Christopher Lee, the undisputed godfather of horror movies is well and truly Vincent Price. With his unique baroque voice, imposing demeanour, and trademark twinkle in his eye denoting devilish playfulness, he has punctuated many a horror film spanning from the 1950s all the way to …

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