“The Fog” (1980) isn’t John Carpenter’s best film, but it might be his best achievement. He makes a roiling wall of glowing fog off the
Michael Myers has stalked teens, adults and adults-playing-teens for more than four decades, covering five distinct timelines — four with Michael and three of which
Writer-director John Carpenter’s “They Live” (1988) is technically about aliens infiltrating Earth and posing as humans, but the metaphor is so thinly veiled it’s hardly
“Escape from L.A.” (1996), although set in the future of 2013, looks awfully familiar to those of us living in the real 2020. Nationalism and
John Carpenter has built up enough of an oeuvre that everyone has their own pick for his elite work, but for me it’s “The Thing”
I appreciate “Escape from New York” (1981) more as an influential piece of history in the action genre than as a film that stands the
Although I’ve seen some of the “Halloween” films, I haven’t seen them recently enough to remember them. So this watch/rewatch of the saga marks my
Although I’ve seen some of the “Halloween” films, I haven’t seen them recently enough to remember them. So this watch/rewatch of the saga will mark
My “Assault on Precinct 13” review, Brainerd Dispatch, Jan. 27, 2005