By The Blood on Satan’s Claw is one of a trinity of “folk horror” movies, the two others being The (original) Wicker Man and Witchfinder General. I found the expression “folk horror” in a great documentary on Prime called Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched. If you like folk horror, it’s really
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Anything new in Disney’s “Star Wars” universe causes a reaction; that’s a given. On a fairly regular basis there also seems to be controversy, division, heated exchanges and discourse that’s joyful, hateful and fiery. The recently launched “The Acolyte” series was already drawing a varied response. Critics seem to be
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Twelve: “The One Where They’re Up All Night”/”Symphony of Illumination”
The post The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Seven, Episode Twelve: “The One Where They’re Up All Night”/”Symphony of Illumination” appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Natalie and David get stuck on the roof with Joey and Ross in “The One Where They’re Up All Night” and get stuck
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While both fans and detractors speak of superhero cinema like it began yesterday—or about a decade ago when the Marvel Cinematic Universe came into being—the truth is masked do-gooders are virtually as old as the movies themselves. One of the silver screen’s first great adventurers, Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark
We’re Back, Baby!
Is this thing on… testing…testing… Are we back? Yeah, we’re thinking we are back! It has been an emotional few days. Something, somewhere changed without notification. Was it WordPress? Was it at our host? We had no idea until we investigated piece by piece. Drunken Yoda had his bag of
