Flannel over henley, jeans, hair perfectly parted down the middle. Alan Abernathy is an X-Files sort of guy, marginally cool with just enough quirky oddball energy to be relatable. He’s the late 90s everykid who still carried the Gen X ethos, the kind of jaded teenager who felt like the caretaker of his own parents… … Read more
By 1988, George Romero had nothing to prove. Night of the Living Dead had rewritten the rules of modern horror, Dawn of the Dead became a landmark film that turned the ubiquitous shopping mall into a mausoleum for American consumerism and Day of the Dead was his scathing and nihilistic death knell for the military … Read more
By the mid-90s, scary movies had fallen on the floor and rolled to the back of the bus. The slashers that defined my teenage years in the 80s had jumped the shark, with Freddy and Jason both sent to hell for early retirement by 1993. The genre that once packed multiplexes was now fighting for … Read more
The T&A comedy had its theatrical moment in the early 80s, when Animal House and Porky’s kicked down the door and a flash flood of imitators followed like Revenge of the Nerds, Private School, Private Resort, Spring Break, Hot Dog… The Movie. The list is as long as a baby’s arm. By the back half … Read more