This is Halloween!

To kick things off for this year’s festivities, my previous review of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York is being included on Radiator Heaven’s John Carpenter Blogathon. While technically not brand-new, and not really a horror movie perse, this essay was a blast to write, and the John Capernter Blogathon is an amazing compendium of all things Carpenter, which, in my estimation, is a [...]

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The Catalogue of Curiosities’ Annual Giant-Sized 200th Post Spectacular

       It’s Martini-O’Clock with The Catalogue of Curiosities and Jayne Mansfield Although not as great a  milestone as say the 500th over at Frankensteinia or Arbogast On Film’s 1,000 posts (my God, man, what are you on?), 200 posts is nothing to sneeze at, so I thought I would at least mark the occasion with nod to the 200 so far [...]

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Nostalgia Gets Me Every Time: Escape From New York

Escape From New York (1981)  Director: John Carpenter The movie-going experience can often afford us a specific kind of nostalgia. Like a song or an album, it can remind us of time in our life, good or bad, evoking all kinds of memories. I cannot recall the exact theater that I saw Superman (1978) and Star Wars (1977) in, [...]

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