Disclaimer: Halloween is totally a Thea thing when she hijacks the blog and makes me watch and read all sorts of stuff that are way outside my comfort zone (I am SO NOT a horror/Halloween fan). Last year, it…
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Last year, we covered Vampires, Shapeshifters, Ghosts and Slashers…and we ran out of time before we could get to an important list – I’m talking about International Horror Films. American cinema is all fine and dandy, but European, Asian,…
For our next stop on Halloween Week, we have the fabulous paranormal romance/urban fantasy author Meljean Brook over for a guest post! We are unabashed Meljean fangirls – so when we were inviting folks over for Halloween, she was…
Disclaimer: Halloween is totally a Thea thing when she hijacks the blog and makes me watch and read all sorts of stuff that are way outside my comfort zone (I am SO NOT a horror/Halloween fan). Last year, it…
Last year, we covered Vampires, Shapeshifters, Ghosts and Slashers…and we ran out of time before we could cover one of our very favorite subgenres in the Horror-verse: we’re talking about Science Fiction Horror. What could be better than a…
Disclaimer: Halloween is totally a Thea thing when she hijacks the blog and makes me watch and read all sorts of stuff that are way outside my comfort zone (I am SO NOT a horror/Halloween fan). Last year, it…
I was looking through my horror dvds the other day, and came to a “d’oh” realization – I have a LOT of John Carpenter. I’m talking, nearly a shelf solely devoted to his films. And there’s a perfectly good…
Darren Shan’s bestselling Cirque du Freak series makes its way to the big screen this fall, with The Vampire’s Assistant – and we are offering some goodies to get in the spirit of the film! The Book: THE VAMPIRE’S…
Happy Sunday, everyone! I kindly want to kick off this week’s edition of our Sunday Stash to say… MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! As of this instant, UCLA has a better football record than USC. Suck it Trojans. SUCK IT! Ahem. Now back…
Everyone loves a good bad boy – that is, the guy who is the cool, dangerous outsider, but secretly good at heart. Or maybe not so good at heart. Inspired by Angie’s fabulous post this week about the “Bad…
So, summer is just about over (though at 90-plus degree weather here in LA, it sure as crap doesn’t feel like it). It’s always a little sad, but hey! We’ve got some sweet movies and fall tv shows on…
So, even though Terminator: Salvation was a total bust, blockbuster season is far from being over. Here are a few films Ana and I cannot wait to check out: Up Release Date: May 29, 2009 I don’t care what…
Hello, good afternoon and welcome!The weather is lovely here in the UK today and I am for a change, ready to start the week ahead! So, getting down to business: Giveaway winners: The winner of a copy of Don’t…
Title: Terminator Salvation Movie directed by MCG; screenplay by John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris; starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Moon Bloodgood Review: I think I speak for much of my generation when I say…
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Movie Review: Watchmen
“Who Watches the Watchmen” WE DO! The most highly anticipated movie of 2009 (at least for us) is finally out in theaters, and of course we both went on opening night. So…what did we think? Was it everything we…
As part of our Watchmen Special (one more day till the we watch the movie and counting!) we decided to answer once and for all the question that is on everyone’s minds (we know you spend a lot of…
As we discussed yesterday, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’s masterpiece Watchmen is a revolutionary work of literature. One of the most beloved aspects of the use of metafiction, the-story-within-the-story of Tales of the Black Freighter. In a world where…
Smuggler Specialties Watchmen Weekend
Watchmen Weekend: Remembering Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Roman poet Juvenal wrote these words in his Satires, translating to the eponymous quandary: “Who watches the watchmen?” In the mid 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created the twelve book series Watchmen, changing not…
Yesterday we gave you a good long look at the evolution of zombies in the film genre, highlighting some pivotal films. I could wax poetical all day about Romero’s movies, but the zombie movie has a lot of other…
When it was decided that this Zombie Appreciation Week was going ahead I was sent an email by Thea with the subject line: Ana’s Zombie Homework with a list of stuff I had to watch and read for the…
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Zombie Appreciation Week: A Brief History of the Zombie
Zombies in film have come a very long way since their inception in the early 1930s–from under the control of diabolical voodoo priests, to infectious shambling swarms, to talking & sentient creatures, to Olympic speed sprinters. With all the…
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahh, the holidays. The time of frantic, scrambling blind panic for gifts, hearty eating, heavy drinking, and most of all–MOVIEGOING! In the month of December, moviehouses play their best hands, releasing the films they hope will secure…