Steve A. Wiggins

It’s not nice to pick on the elderly, I know, but Poltergeist is one movie where I disagree with the critics.

Christina Henry grew a reputation rewriting fairy tales.

Perhaps after The Exorcist, the demonic possession movie cited with the greatest respect is The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Now that official scary movie season is here, and now that I’ve had a chance to watch The Last Voyage of the Demeter, well, I guess I can share my thoughts.

I don’t often write about music because it’s far too personal.

As a movie fan, you eventually come to trust certain filmmakers.

The world is quiet here.

I’ve noted elsewhere that no database exists, that I know of, where every movie showing or featuring the Bible is catalogued.

Since it’s Sleepy Hollow season I suggested to my wife that we watch the Disney version of the movie last night, rainy weekend evening that it was.

You think you know a guy.

Tim Burton’s aesthetic falls outside of my own by only a matter of degree.

Although we’ve all heard “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” we all do.

When I stepped out for my jog yesterday, I was given a little hope.

Shutter Island is a movie my wife often suggests when a kind of autumnal day puts you in the mood for a certain kind of film.

There’s a danger when you get together with friends.

I think I need to swear off found footage films.

It must be the season.

Perhaps I lack ambition, or maybe my inner critic is over-caffeinated, but I’ve never applied for a book prize.

October has come quickly this year.

A friend who read my review of The Stuff recommended Q: The Winged Serpent.

There’s a disappointing scent to books printed on demand.

The Carnivorous Carnival continues to reveal more of the Baudelaires’ unanswered questions.

Not all low budget movies are bad, but some really struggle.

Now that I’m an antique, antique stores have a special draw.

One of the more recent fascinations for me has been the fateful meeting of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori that took place in the summer of 1816.

Although a good example of religion and horror, and a member of Holy Sequel, The Order isn’t a great movie.

I’ve written about the virtues of reading in public before.

Despite a few heat spells, around these parts the summer was reasonable.

Some horror films just have trouble finding their way.

A recent article in the New York Times explores something many of us know from experience: your hopes of getting tenure in higher education plummet if you’re from the working class.

Although it starts off a little slowly, the premise of The Haunting of Ashburn House keeps you reading.

The Sheep Detectives is a family-friendly movie (for the most part) and a sweet story.

When it comes to gardening, my philosophy is to let nature add the beauty where I lack the artifice.

I learned of this movie from Victoria Jaye’s Hell, Horror and Despair.

Once, on a rare day off work, I decided to take a long walk.

Folk horror, like folklore, is a commonplace of the human condition.

I don’t recognize America anymore.

Jane Goodall was a scientist for whom I have a great deal of respect.

Obsession is one of those horror movies that surprised the industry by becoming super-successful last year.

I really don’t like to walk out of an independent bookstore empty-handed.

I’m aware that I don’t think like other people.

The best children’s material contains winks for adults.

Moody, gothic, and intriguing.

I discovered Vicious by V.

Over the past decade, sometimes with years between, I’ve been viewing the original Twilight Zone episodes.

Many years ago I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.

Someone, somewhere, on some social media post pondered whether to divest themselves of their yearbooks.

There have been any number of film adaptations of Frankenstein.