Reviews

Still getting caught up, but I did get into last week’s comics… Best Comic of My Week: The Power Fantasy #6 – Now we know most of the players, and have a good sense of their relationships to one another, so Kieron Gillen can get the larger plot underway. We

When Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers aired on PBS in the summer 1988, it quickly became a phenomenon. My college professors immediately told the students that we needed to watch when PBS reran it in the Fall. Barely a year after the show aired, the

Having more than one horror story in a movie wasn’t too much of an anomaly in the ’60s and ’70s. American International Pictures used the format during its era of Edgar Allen Poe to meld short stories into the Tales of Terror feature film without padding the source material. England’s

During the ’80s, I met up with a bunch of punk kids from Wilmington who would visit Raleigh when there were cool shows at the Brewery or a major party. What made them exciting to hang around was their stories of working on various movies. During the ’80s, Dino De

Gunnar Hansen scared audiences before they arrived at the theater. When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arrived in the Fall of 1974, people got a fright just looking at the poster of Hansen as Leatherface holding a female victim in one arm and sporting a chainsaw. They didn’t even know