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Sam Sewell-Peterson
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Tag Archives: Stephen King
Review: It Chapter Two (2019)
Two years have just flown by haven’t they? The first IT floated high above all expectations and had pretty much everyone clamoring for more. CHAPTER TWO is good…but only just. Stephen King’s novel isn’t an easy one to adapt and … Continue reading
80s Review: The Shining (1980)
Most people’s first thought of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING will be one of three images: the ghost girls, the woman in the bath and Jack Nicholson axing his way through the bathroom door. Few western horrors, except for perhaps THE … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, Film, Film Review
Tagged 1980s, Classic Film, Danny Lloyd, Garrett Brown, Horror, Jack Nicholson, Rocky II, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Exorcist, The Shining
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Review in Brief: The Dark Tower (2017)
The most disappointing thing about THE DARK TOWER is what might have been. Of course you can’t judge a hypothetical movie, only what was actually released, and what was released has been considerably cut down. A fascinating premise, dense mythology … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Stephen King, The Dark Tower
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Review in Brief: Gerald’s Game (2017)
There’s such fine, detailed character work here and such a limited pool of performers and locations that you can imagine GERALD’S GAME working as well on stage as it does on film. Sooner or later, one of the usual Stephen … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Gerald's Game, Horror, Mike Flanagan, Stephen King
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Review: It (2017)
Nobody does a slow build like Stephen King. In both THE STAND and IT, he’s still introducing new characters and concepts with 250 pages to go and he can spend chapter after chapter establishing history, geography, mood and layer -upon-layer … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Andy Muscietti, Bill Skarsgård, Chosen Jacobs, Finn Wolfhard, Horror, It, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jackson Robert Scott, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Literature, Mama, Nicholas Hamilton, Sophia Lillis, Stephen King, The Stand, TIm Curry, TV, Wyatt Oleff
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