You know you're definitely getting older when all your favorite movies growing up are turning 20, 30, 40 years old. Well, one of those movies turned 40 years old this month and I thought I'd do a post on it before the end of June. I was around Henry Thomas's age in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial …
Continue reading Spotlight on Steven Spielberg’s E.T. on its 40th Anniversary
HALLOWSTREAM Series Sorry for the delay on this one! Turns out watching 9 1-hour episodes of a mini-series is difficult to do quickly when you have a full-time job, and for some reason my boyfriend didn't want to stay up until 3am watching every episode back to back (what a killjoy). However, I have finally …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
HALLOWSTREAM Series Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House is a classic work of horror literature. Eerie, atmospheric, and poignant, this ghost story has been adapted on more than one occasion with varying degrees of success: the 1963 film The Haunting is a mostly faithful adaptation and a classic in its own right, …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
I’m going to be honest: my expectations for this movie were not high. This mostly has to do with its predecessor, 2014’s Ouija (brought to you by Hasbro Studios: the same company responsible for next fall’s My Little Pony: The Movie - no, I’m not kidding). Not that Ouija was awful- it was just forgettable: …
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