I've been contemplating Taylor Swift to-day. Every now and then, I feel I must make some gesture of connecting with the modern world. So...

An FBI agent enlists the help of the cannibal he'd previously caught to track down another killer in 1986's Manhunter . The first ...

An American horror author goes to Italy and finds himself the target of a killer's obsession. Sounds simple enough but 1982's Tene...

Lizabeth Scott is courted by Burt Lancaster and John Hodiak but all she wants is to run her mother's casino in 1947's Desert Fury ...

To-day I read "Dark Adapted Eyes", the new Caitlin R. Kiernan story in the Sirenia Digest . It's a treat for anyone obsessed...

This spider really goes with my boot. I didn't step on her. This kind was new for me but I'm used to seeing lots of spiders ar...

I'm two episodes in now on Hazbin Hotel , a series on Amazon Prime which a former student recommended to me. Which was a surprise beca...

At the mall yesterday, I was surprised to see a whole bunch of imported beer. I never see imported beer at the supermarkets which led me to ...

What more fertile ground could there be for sexual awakening than a swimming pool? Aside from the fact that it's not ground at all, bu...

"WHOM THESE CHAINS BECOME NOT SO", by Caitlin R. Kiernan, is the new Sirenia Digest story I read to-day. It's good. It's ...

A complicated inheritance scheme results in a flustered slapstick scramble for mayhem and money in 1966's The Wrong Box , based on the...

Jennifer Love Hewitt's boyfriend breaks up with her as high school ends and everyone's in line for the rebound in 1998's Can...

Tiny aliens land on the roof of a young woman's New York apartment and a disastrous confluence of drugs, sex, and alien technology res...

Now Alain Delon has passed away. He died yesterday at the age of 88. I just watched him last week in Purple Noon , a movie in which, as he...

I had another vivid dream last night. I dreamt I was at a very large mansion with a lot of celebrities. It was dusk and not many lights were...

I found myself watching 2000's Memento yesterday. It's not Christopher Nolan's first film but it's the one that made him ...

Gena Rowlands' most remarkable performance is as the title character of 1974's A Woman Under the Influence . She had a long career...

There are many Tom Ripleys on the screen, but arguably the handsomest is Alain Delon in 1960's Purple Noon . It's based on The Tal...

Recently married Jeanne Crain finds herself gaslighted at sea in 1953's Dangerous Crossing . It's a slightly nutty, fairly predict...

I found myself in the mood for a pirate movie a few days ago and I came to the realisation that I've probably seen all of them. All th...