On December 15, 2006, I was skimming through the cinema-related headlines and to my naïve surprise, found the heading “Christmas Horror Movie Offends Religious Groups” on CNN.com. I say “naïve surprise” because, upon researching Charles E. Sellier Jr.’s Silent Night,...
On June 29th, the illustrious Roger Ebert inserted his foot squarely into his mouth. Of course this is not the first occasion in which we find the esteemed critic mumbling as he picks bits of shoelace from between his teeth. However, the audacious arrogance and...
“Meaningless pulp.” “Puerile escapism.” “Utter trash.” These are not the labels one would ordinarily associate with an award-winning writer’s work. However, the sound of academia’s jaw hitting the floor continues to resonate years after Stephen King was awarded the...
It is frequently stated that there is a want of American existential thinkers and writers. Of the few which the country can claim as its own, they are largely fiction scribes while nary a non-fiction philosopher can be mentioned without a subsequent discussion...
A psychologist named C. J. Arnold (Richard Crenna) purchases a dilapidated historical mansion built prior to the civil war in hopes of restoring the estate and making it a drug rehabilitation clinic with the help of some of his students and current patients. When he...
