by Court | Apr 9, 2026
Remember Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with Donald Sutherland? Where people are slowly, insidiously, turned into aliens, and there’s almost no way to tell who the enemy is? It was made in 1978, but it’s actually a remake of a 1956 movie. In the 1950’s version, the...
by Court | Feb 16, 2026
It’s Oscar season, and I watched Guillermo Del Toro’s movie adaption of Frankenstein with an eye toward . . . body snatching. I read Mary Shelley’s novel when I was a baby English major back in the days when you could smoke in your apartment while writing 30 page...
by Court | Dec 5, 2025
Like most nerds in this country, I’ve been glued to Ken Burns’ The American Revolution on PBS. Who can resist the siren call of old-timey flute music, pretentious celebrity voiceovers, and LOCAL HERO Peter Coyote’s gravelly hippie narration??? Also can we talk about...
by Court | Oct 28, 2025
Usually around this time of year I’m putting out horror movie recs and tired Gen X jokes about being traumatized walking the mean streets of FOSTER CITY CA on Halloween, but I’m taking it in a darker direction this year. The horrors persist and so do I, so let’s talk...
by Court | Sep 15, 2025
The reputation of cute cuddly exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren has grown outsized in 21st-century pop culture. That’s mainly thanks to the juggernaut Conjuring franchise, loosely based on their lives, with Vera Farmiga playing Lorraine and Patrick Wilson playing Ed. ....
