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- Youth for the President
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- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
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- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
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Tag Archives: Stephen King
Taxi Driver: 40 Thoughts for 40 Years
Taxi Driver may be the most important American film, and 40 years later, it still talks to us. Continue reading
In Defense of Stephen King
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged 'Salem's Lot, Christine, Cujo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Bloom, High-brow, It, Low-brow, Rolling Stone, Sean Murphy, Stephen King, The Stand
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The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time
Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading
Posted in 50 Greatest
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman
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The Hero’s Tale: The Conclusion of My Year of Horror
When is a myth like a horror movie or when is reality like a myth? Tom Gualtieri concludes his year of horror with five films that send their heroes into the darkness. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Danse Macabre, Deliverance, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, John Boorman, John Voight, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Conrad, Liv Ullman, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow, Mother, Pan's Labyrinth, Stephen King
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The 10 Best Worst Horror Movies or Summer Camp
See a severed head talk! See deranged blondes! See Lyle Waggoner naked! See the best worst movies in this month’s installment of MY YEAR OF HORROR. Continue reading
Posted in My Year of Horror
Tagged best, best horror films, Blood Feast, Body Parts, camp, Christopher Stone, Damien Lewis, Donald Pleasance, Dreamcatcher, Fear No Evil, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Homeland, Homicidal, horror, horror films, Jan in the Pan, Jean Arless, Jeff Fahey, Joan Crawford, Joan Marshall, John Carpenter, Lawrence Kasdan, Love Me Deadly, Lyle Waggoner, Mommie Dearest, Patty McCormack, Prince of Darkness, Stefan Arngrim, Stephen King, Strait-Jacket, The Bad Seed, Troll 2, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
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The Dubious Allure of Gore
With the release of Evil Dead today and the death of Roger Ebert yesterday, Tom Gualtieri reflects on his despair at the equation of gore with fear. Continue reading
My Year of Horror: March Madness
Your shrink will have a field day with this month’s twisted psychotics, neurotics and schizophrenics, coming around to fill your life with horror. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror, The Arts
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Massey, Catherine Deneuve, Emeric Pressberger, Frenzy, Hitchcock, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, Michael Powell, Moira Shearer, Pino Donaggio, Powell & Pressberger, Repulsion, Rob Reiner, Roman Polanski, Stephen King, The Fan, The Red Shoes, William Goldman
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