The sad reality is that every new Clint Eastwood film could be his last. After more than six decades on the Silver Screen, Eastwood?now eighty-eight?is fighting the one opponent he can?t beat?Father Time. There?s an obvious hitch in his step, a veritable roadmap of years and miles on his face. The gritty growl of Josie…
Kids say the darnedest things. Blurting out inappropriate potty humor at the dinner table. Sharing Mommy?s not-so-flattering nickname for Daddy during the children?s sermon. Recounting the violent end to their past life. At least most of us can identify with the first two scenarios. But in The Devout, parents Darryl and Jan Eckford (Charlie Carrick…
It?s not easy to be scary. No really, take a shot. We?ll wait. And when you get done with that, try your hand at being funny. Or endearing. Or poignant. Any luck? How about trying to be all of the above? A handful of actors can pull it off, maybe a few writers too. ?But…
Perhaps it’s a grizzly observation, especially for a faith-based site, but someone’s gotta admit it: Slasher films can be fun. Sure, it’s satisfying–and almost justifiable–to see obnoxious, unruly teens meet their doom at the hands of some crazed killer. ?But to really enjoy slasher movies, you have to enjoy the slasher. ?And there’s perhaps no…
Werewolves sure have it easy. Aside from a few fleas, excruciating once-per-month-transformations and obsessively/compulsively marking their territory, there’s not much to ruffle their fur. Want it tough? Trying being a were-frog. You leave a slime trail pretty much everywhere you go, no one wants to kiss you and you have an uncontrollable desire to rip…
Poor Yen Shi-san. It’s bad enough he has to walk around with a face tattoo that looks like a cross between the cover art for Ghost Rider and Black Swan.? The real kick in the robes?? No one will leave him alone long enough to let him die–usually because they’re always trying to kill him….
It?s tough enough to adapt an author?s seminal work for the big screen; perhaps even harder for a filmmaker to follow with his own version of an already beloved adaptation of that same literary masterpiece. Apparently director Andres Muschietti wasn?t scared. But he darned sure knows how to be scary. Muschetti?s brand new take on…
Call it the potato chip effect. If one is delicious, fifty must be amazing. Or maybe you could label it the exercise effect.? If running three miles is healthy, running fifty must be exponentially more invigorating. And you could most certainly call it the horror movie effect. If the first one was good, the…
And you thought driving your Mammaw to the Piggly Wiggly was a pain. Be glad you?re not Mallorie.? She?d kill for a lazy jaunt to the corner market.? That?s because her crazed Gram Gram Birdie seems obsessed with the dead?and bringing them back to the land of the living. Sweet Mallorie (Meegan Warner) is the…
Crisp evenings.? Bonfires.? Pumpkin spice euphoria. And horror. These are the caveats that perfect Autumns are made of.? And the good news for Stephen King fans is that they won?t have to wait until Halloween to get their fill of fall fright.? In fact, the season sees not one, not two, but a trifecta of…
