Welcome to my weird world!
I actually didn't see the original Little Mermaid till I was 16 and watched it in my 11th grade Music class. That was also the class I was introduced to Hairspray, another movie I probably wasn't looking for in my life but ended up falling in love with. In the 1989 Mermaid, I found the... Continue Reading →
I knew how the story of this book was supposed to play out before, not because I'd seen the movie (which I haven't) but because my ex-boyfriend starred as Cheswick in a play of the story at the Oshawa Little Theatre four years ago. It was a decent production. Everyone performed great, especially the ones... Continue Reading →
I ended up reading the illustrated/photographed edition of this book, something which majorly contributed to my enjoyment or fascination. I'm not completely sure I'd have given this book the same grade if it weren't for the photos of real-life old paintings, ruins, museums, fields and sights that show up helping us feel we're there even... Continue Reading →
I can't remember if I've ever written No Spoilers in a movie review before, and maybe it's all for naught. After all, only daredevils at this point are looking at the reviews unless they've seen the film already. Marvel is really good at making you feel like what they have crafted are a big family,... Continue Reading →
After I got through this star-studded but vacuous 150 minute sci-fi monster, I found myself on a quest of my own, to find out why this has gotten such critical acclaim from seemingly everybody but moi. I felt something was just wrong with me and I couldn't keep reviewing until I did some investigating to... Continue Reading →
Well, it looks like Home Sweet Home Alone is officially a thing. You know what? I'll just put my quick review of the other two direct-to-DVD Home Alone sequels here before we get into Home Alone 3. Home Alone 4, or Taking Back The House, is not a movie that's necessarily painful to watch. More... Continue Reading →
I was able to read this in a day, and even though some of the snippets of letters Lee fabricated drag the story, it was really easy to tell why Lee's first two publications from 1972 and 80 were such hits. She has a way with vocabulary and sentence rhythm that is both fancy and... Continue Reading →
Have you heard about the story of why H20 and Resurrection played out as they did? How the late Moustapha Akkad who was producer for every Halloween film (until his death in 2005) said Michael Myers couldn't be killed off and he had a clause in place for the writers? I don't exactly know if... Continue Reading →
I'm going to soon be seeing the new Halloween Kills, so I thought it would be proper to finally write a review of the predecessor. I saw this film when it was released, but, well, there's a bit of a reason why it's taken me this long to review. Honestly, the Halloween franchise has tripped... Continue Reading →
Why has this become a classic that my family and I watch every year and yours probably does too? Well, there's the fact it's a relatable everything-goes-wrong plot as Clark W. Griswold Jr. tries to plan the most perfect Christmas possible…No, that's not why. The antics and slapstick are goldenly hectic and Chevy Chase is... Continue Reading →
William J. McGinn 