Some things in life are hard. Brain surgery is hard, especially if you only have a spoon. Riding on the back of great white shark is hard, especially if you are holding an open can of tuna. Hitting a home run is hard, especially if you have spaghetti arms like … Read More
Yes, I know. It’s an old joke, and it fits the letter of the article! I have always gone to the movies for two reasons. Either I wanted a good laugh or a good scare. Both, if done well, can make you pee yourself. My Good Lady Wife says I … Read More
Today’s title is actually stolen from a song called “It’s Magic.” The name of the band was Jigsaw. Of course, this was long before anyone thought of “Saw.” Our current installment will have us visiting a classic from the 1960’s, a very short scare, our old friend, Drew Daywalt … Read More
I couldn’t come up with a decent title to save my life. So, there you have it. I really don’t want to steal from Sue Grafton (N is for Noose). There is a fan base and respect for her work within the family (Mom and me). Often, the playlist of films … Read More
One of my favorite sayings is “Math is Life.” I do firmly believe that. DuPont once used the slogan “Without Chemicals, There Would Be No Life.” I feel that way about Mathematics (yes, capital M). So, we have reach point M on the line segment whose endpoints are A and … Read More
With apologies to “Schoolhouse Rock”, another letter enters the arena of Short Horror Films. For those of you who are much younger and didn’t get to see “Schoolhouse Rock”, back when Saturday Morning Cartoons were on all three major networks and Cap’n Crunch was in great supply, I am … Read More
The letter “K” is not the easiest of letters. Historically, there are few classic films that begin with the letter. Offhand, I can only think of a couple of films like “Kasablanca,” “Kat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Katch-22.” Of the shorts that I have seen, only two … Read More
If you read last time’s article, you may have considered that the phone number at the end was a reference to Tommy Tutone’s classic song “Jenny”. “What does this have to do with the letter J?”, you ask. Has Fink finally gone off his nut? Nah, folks, that happened years … Read More
One of my favorite covers from my favorite horror comic. Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians recorded the song “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream” back in 1927. Hard to believe that it would have such a lasting effect on yours truly. Not that I was … Read More
In the last installment of the Short Film Review, we visited the origins of Cinema. Today, we visit a “Tardy to the Party”, namely the United States. American film would really only come into its own until Edwin S. Porter would come along and give the audience a narrative … Read More
