The Gunslinger and The Man in Black
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May 2017

I Do Not Kill With My Gun – The Dark Tower Movie

It’s finally here. The long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s epic 8-book magnum opus, “The Dark Tower”. It took a long time and, let’s be honest, Hollywood has not been particularly kind or true to Stephen King’s novels in the past. However, with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey cast as Roland and The Man in Black, I found a glimmer of hope that this film would do the story and the characters justice. The trailer did not disappoint. Rather, it made me that much more excited.

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March 2017

The Just Released Dark Tower Poster & What I Think it Means

What a surprise today when I saw someone retweet Idris Elba sharing the first teaser poster from The Dark Tower, starring Elba and based on the Stephen king novel, series of novels, canon of stories from basically the beginning of his career until now.  The poster tells me a lot, but if you are not familiar…

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November 2014

Stop Working and Watch This Movie Based on Battleground

Any good Stephen King fan knows Battleground, a short story of toys on a deadly mission, from King’s seminal 1978 Night Shift collection. However, you’ve probably never seen a decent film adaptation of it, particularly not a Soviet Ukrainian one full of all the rotoscoping cartoony glory and synthesizer soundtracks of 80’s animation. This 1986 short film titled Srazhenie…

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September 2013

Your First Clue: Don’t Move to a Town Called Derry

Kids, we’re less than a week til October, which means just 39 days til Halloween. You all know Halloween is a pretty big deal around here (and, needless to say, over on my site, The Year of Halloween), so I thought I’d get everyone in the mood with this tribute to what it might be like…

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September 2009

Stephen King vs. Opie and Anthony – Who Ya Got?

This is either going to be a really good fight or the most one sided thing in the history of stupid Twitter and internet fights.  Here is the run down so far. King writes in this week’s Entertainment Weekly blah blah something about radio and then: “How culturally important are the gabbling “personalities” who make…

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July 2009

Carrie – Why didn’t I realize this before?

So this past weekend I was watching Carrie for the seventeenth time and something occurred to me that I had not realized the first sixteen times I watched it.  Or when I read the book as a kid.  If you don’t know the story, then you are uneducated in the ways of horror moviedom.  You…

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