Stories By Dan Fields
Mystery
Trailer Watch: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Woman In Black, Chronicle
September 21, 2025This week is rife with compelling but problematic new trailers. Compelling but problematic but informative. Without...
Movies
Courageous: A Closer Look
September 20, 2025Is Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great...
Satire
The Weekly Listicle: Some Movies Are About Things
September 19, 2025At last, the long-rumored prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing infects theaters across the...
Movies
Movie Review: The Big Year
September 16, 2025There are no surprises. The payoff of each plot arc is completely predictable. The fun of...
Theatre
The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
September 14, 2025The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon...
Movies
Movie Review: Machine Gun Preacher
September 14, 2025What do you call a two-hour movie with forty-five minutes of wholesome, inspirational tearjerking and a...
Movies
Movie Review: Drive
September 8, 2025Despite its holy-grail status in Hollywood, a clever script brimming with witty banter is not always...
Death
True Blood Recap: Season 4 Bites Deep (But Doesn’t Suck)
September 7, 2025For those who have not been scared off by now, I think we could all use...
Movies
Movie Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
September 4, 2025Everything seems right about the setup. In a refreshing change from the norm, Sally is the...
Movies
A Brief Apology To Final Destination 5
September 1, 2025My recent review awarded Final Destination a moderate "star" rating - for the benefit of the...




