Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Horror Novel
The Halloween season is upon us. In addition to watching horror movies, now is a good time to read a scary book or two. What are your favorites?
The Halloween season is upon us. In addition to watching horror movies, now is a good time to read a scary book or two. What are your favorites?
After a successful (at least ratings-wise; quality is another story) first season, ‘Under the Dome’ returns for another batch of summer episodes that pick up right where last season’s cliffhanger left off. With S...
With the author’s new novel ‘Doctor Sleep’ on bookstore shelves and a remake of ‘Carrie’ in movie theaters this weekend, this seems like a good time to do a Roundtable about the best and worst movies ...
‘Carrie’ was Stephen King’s first novel published to the masses, and it made him a writing sensation. In dealing with remakes, it’s difficult not to compare to previous versions, as we have the same story a...
We begin this week’s recap with some good news for ‘Under the Dome’ fans. CBS has officially renewed the show for a second season, which will once again be a limited-episode (probably 13) summer series. Even bett...
Based on the (heavy) bestseller by Stephen King, CBS’s summer series ‘Under the Dome’ is being presented as a “special event” series of 13 episodes. However, the network has also made it clear that if...
As the post title makes clear, this week’s trailers feature two retreads and one fresh idea – the latter of which marks Chan-wook Park’s American debut. Interestingly, they all look good.
Formerly a summer series, the Syfy network decided to move its Stephen King-based supernatural mystery/procedural ‘Haven’ to the fall this year. The show returned for its third season on Friday. I have to admit that, a...
Is August a particularly spooky time of year? Perhaps not, but Warner Bros. and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment have chosen to release the supernatural thriller ‘The Apparition’ now anyway. This got us to...
While this blog may be primarily focused on movies, TV and videogames, we don’t want to leave the impression that we’re totally uncultured in literary matters here. We read books too, you know. (Well, some of us, anywa...
Movies for or about children seem to be the theme of the week on VUDU. We have a bunch of kid-friendly flicks about princesses, teddy bears and high school musicals entering the stream, but the ones that interest me are those with...
The Syfy network’s supernatural thriller series ‘Haven’ has been having a hit-or-miss second season. Unfortunately, this past Friday’s episode falls more on the “miss” side.