A Brief Apology To Final Destination 5
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The Weekly Listicle: There Goes The Neighborhood
August 30, 2025Forget good fences, and forget good neighbors. Characters in movies and television are far more compelling...
Best And Worst Movies Of 2011, Part 1
August 23, 2025We the critics of the Fourth Wall - Julia Rhodes, Brett Davinger, and myself - devote...
In Case You Missed… Christopher Smith’s Black Death
August 20, 2025Most movies like Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with...
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: “Dear Twilight…”
August 13, 2025Somewhere in the Twilight cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold...
I Am NOT An Animal! (But I Play One In The Movies)
August 12, 2025Putting animal antics into movies is a perennially popular way to cobble up a goofball family...
Insecurity Deposits: Catching Up With Hammer’s The Resident
August 9, 2025The Resident is nicely paced, moodily presented, eerily scored and based upon a very creepy idea....
Lies, LIES! Never Trust Nothing, Especially A “Last” Sequel
August 7, 2025After going to the trouble of naming the fourth installment of the series THE Final Destination,...
The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!
August 3, 2025The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It...




