Misc.

Paul Farrell It was the summer of 1998. I was fourteen, at a sleepover with my closest friends and fighting the group’s movie choice with every fiber of my being. The night had grown dark,...

Richard Matheson is one of the all-time great writers of horror. From Duel to Stir of Echoes, his stories have repeatedly made the trip from the written word to the TV or silver screen...

Chris Vander Kaay I’m always fascinated by the idea of wanting to be so accurate in the portrayal of a real event that they involve people from the actual event in the reenactment. They did...

The common thinking is that the book is always better than its film adaptation. That’s just…not so. It’s easy to understand why we often come away thinking that, though: A book has more time...

Kelly Warner When I first fell in love with the power of film, the thing that drew me in was that ‘sense of wonder’ of seeing something awe-inspiring on the big screen. Spielberg’s adventure stories,...

When Lara Croft first introduced herself in 1996’s Tomb Raider she directly appealed to a young male audience of gamers with a mix of guns and breasts. (It’s worth noting that the '96 graphics...