Archive for the ‘Cavemen’ Category

Today we celebrate a great American.  Oh totally, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but also: John Carpenter, one of my very favorite filmmakers of all time.  Here’s something I wrote on February 11th, 2009:  I recently received in the mail the limited edition 2-disc score album for John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China.  It’s a [...]

  As I watched The Descent for a second time, the one thought to which I kept returning was this:   Maybe there are some places humanity just doesn’t need to go.   For sure, the movies keep trying to make the case. In the movies, if you go into the ocean, into the woods, into [...]