A MONSTER CALLS begins, fittingly enough, with a child’s nightmare. We don’t have the context yet, but the primal fear gripping the boy clinging to the hand of a woman hanging over an abyss neatly sums up the emotional journey to come. The boy is Connor (Lewis MacDougall), and the woman, as we will shortly… Read More »
DREAMCATCHER
The good news for all of us who have been seeing the trailer for DREAMCATCHER since the early Pleistocene Era is that it >doesnt< give everything away. There are plenty of twists, turns and surprises in this elegant and sometimes witty horror flick that is full of invention and characters that rise nicely above the… Read More »
Webster Colcord & Corey Rosen Create THE HOST
There was much more than just the usual giddy delight about their work to be found in Webster Colcord and Corey Rosen. These special effects masters from the San Francisco F/X house The Orphanage have an unabashed respect for their colleagues that they aren’t shy about sharing when discussing their collective work on Korean writer/director Bong Joon Ho’s iconoclastic… Read More »