The final movie in the Conjuring-and-Blumhouse modern horrors series: The Nun. It’s the only major title left off as of the time of this writing — I hit all the Paranormals and all the Insidiouses, all the Conjurings. Now for the one Nun. I’ll start out with the first note here: I could do with …
My April Goal is to do better than I did in February, when I hit 50+ thousand words.
Probably never a good idea to work “Last” or “Final” into your movie title unless it is just that. Like the third movie, this movie is a prequel to the original two movies. But aside from shared characters and a shared universe, it isn’t really a “sequel” in that traditional sense. The story isn’t being …
This is a bad trend and bad habit to be in: “do something impressive, then slack off for a month.” I hit a hell of a goal in February and fell flat on my face in March. Because I can take some time off from writing, right? I just did that big thing. Because there’s …
The 11th entry in our Conjuring/Blumhouse series’ reviews, Paranormal Activity 4 has something in common with Insidious 3: we’ve moved on to a whole new family. The question becomes: How do they handle it? Rather than focus on one movie, I’m going to review the last three movies in the series since we’re running out …
One thing that makes everything better is to appreciate stuff for what it is, and what it is trying to be. There’s no clearer and easier example of this than pop-entertainment, going all the way back to pulp novels and dime magazines, but including B-movies and disaster flicks. It can be applied in other areas …
How does it hold up without a large chunk of the cast? We’re back to “they didn’t make these in any sort of order” mode with this one. Like Paranormal Activity, the third part is a prequel-sequel of sorts. They did this because (in my opinion) they made the mistake of killing a central character …
I am mentally exhausted. Between deadlines, trying to keep pace writing (and failing!), and cracking down on my German/Duolingo… my brain is dry-firing at best right now.
We’re in a position where I have one non-Blumhouse movie left on the list of Blumhouse slash Conjuring universe films: The Nun. I’m going to save the last movie in that series for later, and instead hit up what might be my favorite Paranormal Activity movie: Paranormal Activity 3. This one is the second prequel-sequel. …
Despite not being Catholic, each year for the last several I have given something up for Lent. Sometimes more than one something lately. This year I plan to eclipse my previous attempts: in addition to going without alcohol or tobacco (the occasional cigar, as required of someone who writes noir-style hardboiled fiction), and giving up …
