In 2002, renowned Ghost Hunter , Carter Simms, was offered $5,000 to conduct a 3-day and 3-nihgt paranormal investigation of the infamous Masterson House . Twenty years earlier, Minister Joseph Masterson and his family were brutally murdered inside their home. With the aid of a videographer, a reporter, and spiritual advocate, Carter set out to [...] Read more »
Movie Review: X-Files:I Want to Believe
I’ve been keeping tabs on the X-Files movie since Chris Carter began dropping hints about it six months ago. He told the media that the movie wasn’t going to have aliens or the underlying mythology that made the TV show so popular. If the movie wasn’t going to have these elements, what was it going [...] Read more »
A Day Out with the Boys
I remember my childhood summers as periods where there were short bursts of fun, followed by long bouts of restless boredom. Summertime isn’t much different for my boys. Today was my first flex day since I returned from my vacation, so I thought I would treat them to a movie and some lunch. They had [...] Read more »
The Happening in Theaters on Friday the 13th
When I first saw the first trailer for M. Night Syamalan’s latest film, The Happening, I was intrigued and still am. I’ve always enjoyed apocalyptic stories, and I find it especially cool that the movie is premiering on Friday the 13th. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, I’ve tacked it here for you to [...] Read more »
Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door
I read the book when it came out sometime in the mid to late ’90s. It was a deeply disturbing portrait of severe child abuse, inflicted on a 13 year-old. Ketchum did an awesome job of portraying the psychologies of the victim and the abuse, as well as the nightmarish descriptions of the incidents as [...] Read more »
I Am Legend
I have a confession to make. This book has sat on my “To Read” pile for about a decade because I couldn’t get myself to read a vampire story. I felt the genre was too trendy when it began to boom in the 90′s, and I don’t like to follow trends. I bought the book [...] Read more »
The Simpsons Movie
My family and I have always enjoyed The Simpsons for its perverse sense of humor and Homer’s wild screwups. If you’re a fan, you’ll love this movie. The humor is a little bit more raunchier than you would see in the television shows, which to me made this movie all the more enjoyable. Watch the [...] Read more »
Review: Hide and Seek
Robert DeNiro is one of my favorite actors. I loved his performance in Midnight Run as well as that movie (forget the title) where he and Sean Penn are escaped convicts who pretend to be priests so they can hide out from the police. When I saw the previews of Hide and Seek in the [...] Read more »
Discovering Netflix
My sister-in-law has used the Netflix video service for over a year now and swore by it. So did my brother. It’s been years since I’ve rented a video for several reasons. Mostly, it was the hassle of remembering to collect the videos and drive back to the store to return them by the due [...] Read more »
A Ferris Beuhler Day
My sons have been off all week for winter break, so I decided to take today off and enjoy their last non-school day before the weekend. I’m going to take them to see Ghost Rider. I watched the trailer both at another movie and on the Sony Pictures website. The special effects look awesome, although [...] Read more »
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