Game Night (2018)
Mar13

Game Night (2018)

Game Night     Written by Mark Perez and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, Game Night is a wonderful, fast moving and very funny dark comedy-cum-thriller.  It just sneaks up on you and offers a refreshing antidote to the overrated, pretentious Oscar-winner The Shape of Water.  In fact, it mercifully wipes out the bad taste left by that nonsense. Right from the delightful opening scenes where we see...

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Stephen King’s The Dark Half
Mar08

Stephen King’s The Dark Half

Summoning Demons: Revisiting Stephen King’s The Dark Half     “Kull meditated a while, then spoke.  ‘Can you summon up demons?’ “’Aye.  I can summon up a demon more savage than any in ghostland – by smiting you on the face.’” –Robert E. Howard, The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune     Fittingly for a novel that deals so obsessively with the subject of twins, doubling and mirror images, Stephen King’s 1989 novel The Dark Half is...

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