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This Month’s Good Reads (October 2023)

Life is busy – you’re spending your time being scared (because of Halloween… and also, well, because of the world). It can be tough […]

This Month’s Good Reads (November 2022)

Life is busy – you’re voting, you’re being thankful, you’re preparing your parting words for the somehow-still-not-dead-yet Twitter. It can be tough to stay

Good Reads: HALLOWEEN Edition

Updated 10/15/21; originally published 10/31/14 It’s Good Reads: Halloween Edition! Or rather, Good Reads: Halloween Edition. Director John Carpenter‘s 1978 low-budget indie about a

An Indie Horror Primer

UPDATED 10/26/18; originally published 10/20/14 It wouldn’t be October without a few good scary movies to get you through the California drought autumn. And

This Week’s Good Reads (Week of April 3)

This week in the entertainment industry/pop culture news world, you could call it the Week of In-Depth Actor Career Assessments. We saw lengthy pieces

Movies You Probably Forgot Were Indies

[UPDATED 5/24/17]  The phrase “independent film” usually conjures up certain touchstone images: Early pioneers like Corman or Cassavetes; no-budget phenoms like Clerks and The

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