I really want to like John Carpenter’s The Fog. I really do. I’m a huge fan of the filmmaker, and will praise his artistry and imagination to anyone who will listen (I am a staunch defender of his underrated Price…
Today’s album: The Nightfly (on vinyl), by Donald Fagen.
Roger Moore’s Recipe for a Perfect Dry Martini ME: I’ll be trying this later. daringfireball.net/linked/2015/11…
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” tennessean.com/story/news/pol…
It’s the happiest day of the year – Discount Halloween Candy Day!
Not with any major studio, for a number of reasons. The first major reason is the media environment is much different now – Orson Welles was very very “hot” at the time from his work on radio and stage acting…
Had the great opportunity to talk to Lauren Ventura for her UX Practitioner series – you can see the interview here – but I also wanted to crosspost the interview here – “for the record”, as it were. To start,…
Howard Anderson Dead: ‘Star Trek’ Visual Effects Artist Was 95 hollywoodreporter.com/news/howard-an…
Would watch another horror film for #Halloween but… morpheus awaits. Goodnight, folks.
So, after a rewatch of #TheFog, gotta say… not John Carpenter’s greatest work. Fun, but not as good as his best.
John Carpenter has a fetish about churches/places of authority under siege. See, um, almost all of his movies.
Tom Atkins going around the back of the house to save the kid from #TheFog is so contrived. Cheesy, bad, but fun.
Jamie Lee meets Tom Atkins 12 hours before… and now they are, like, a couple? More ridiculous than zombie pirates. #TheFog
Pj Soles needs to be in more movies. We need ‘hot cyncial brunnettes’ now more than ever. #TheFog
OMG, Hal Holbrook in this movie. SOOOO good. #TheFog
Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis are in two movies together: Halloween H20 and The Fog. Both are underrated.