BOO! TINY HALLOWEEN REVIEWS
Steve’s new Halloween column this month tries to do teeny-tiny reviews of 27 movies. Let us know if he succeeds or falls flat on his face.
NEW MOVIE REVIEW—’SALEM’S LOT
Well, it’s October again, so movie reviews should probably include something scary, so Steve reviews the very first actual movie version of Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot. Boo!
Matt’s Reviews: Fairy Tail by Stephen King
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE Publication date: 09/06/2022 Binding: 20 Compact Discs ISBN: 9781797145280 Author: Stephen King Read By: Seth Numrich with Stephen King Fairy Tail by Stephen King is […]
Matt’s Reviews: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Publication Date: September 26th, 2017 Length: 25 hours 22 minutes ISBN: 9781508250340 ISBN-10: 1508250340 Author: Stephen King Author: Owen King Read by: Marin Ireland Sleeping Beauties by […]
Matt’s Reviews: A Tale of Two Writers – Stephen King and Ray Bradbury
Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000 ISBN 10: 0743506650 ISBN 13: 9780743506656 Author: Stephen King Read by: Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft […]
Replay – MOVIE SERIALS – ALL IN BLACK & WHITE FOR A DIME!
Nowadays you can often see a cheap movie at the theatre on Tuesdays for about $8-10. But in the ‘30s & ‘40s (and sometimes the ‘50s) you could see two movies and a serial (and a cartoon or travelogue) for a dime! (Of course, that’s probably $15 in today’s money…)
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN & BUTLER, MO REVISITED
Remembrance/Veterans’ Day! Today Steve remembers a trip to the hometown of the Dean of SF Writers, Robert Anson Heinlein, himself a veteran of the US Navy (both Steve and RAH). It was an interesting pilgrimage.
BOOK REVIEW: STEPHEN KING’S “LATER”
This week Steve reviews another Steve—okay, they’re both Stephen, but this one doesn’t use that name—Stephen King, whose latest effort is called “Later.” It’s a horror-crime novel. And it’s good!
Reseña de Libro: Entre la Ciencia Ficción y la Fantasía de Cristian Londoño Proaño
A good guide for those who want to understand more about definitions and history of the genre
25 GATES OF HELL REVIEW
In his penultimate 2020 column, Steve reviews a new horror anthology. Is it scary? Very!
RETRO REVIEW: RED PLANET MARS (Spoilers!)
Again, Steve reviews a retro movie from the ‘50s. He must like them… except we don’t think he liked this one!
CREEPSHOW RESURRECTED! (Shudder….)
Many of us loved the old Creepshow movies, but Greg Nicotero did something about it. It’s back, baby!
HEINLEIN AND BUTLER, REVISITED
In this redo of his fifth column from 2013, Steve talks about visiting Butler, Missouri, the town where Robert A. Heinlein was born. Are they proud of him? Heck, yes!
AMAZING NEWS: 10-27-19 : PRE-HALLOWEEN EDITION
Wow! weirdness and light this week in the news: plastic army women, Einstein up-ended, bra makers made spacesuits and if that isn’t weird enough, Cthulhu is picking a fight with Stephen King! Read on!
HALLOWEEN REVIEW: THE SHINING (1997) MINISERIES
Steve’s thinking about Halloween, which often brings up thoughts about Stephen King. How do you feel about that? Seen both versions of The Shining, have you?
A SAD FAREWELL and SEPT/OCT F&SF REVIEW
This week Steve says a painful farewell to a special fan, and reviews the current (Sept./Oct.) issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Please take a look!
REVIEW: STEPHEN KING’S “THE OUTSIDER”
Stephen King’s got novel number 60 out. Steve F takes a look at it. Is it garbage, word slaw, Pulitzer-worthy, or what? See what Steve thinks.
Novedades de Octubre
News of speculative fiction book publications, magazines and more of interest to Spanish speaking fans.
Science Fiction Romance Readers Share Scary Book Recommendations
It’s that spooky time of year again when thoughts turn to scary books and movies. I decided to ask two of my favorite groups on Facebook – the Science fiction Romance Brigade and the SciFi […]
HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#2—MR. MERCEDES)
In the second of three Halloween-type posts about recent Stephen King movies and TV shows, Steve checks into Mr. Mercedes, a book/TV series about a killer who uses a car as a deadly weapon!
HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#1—IT)
In this first of three Halloween-y columns examining several media adaptations of Stephen King works, Steve talks about the new movie, and what’s wrong with IT.
Horror’s Moby Dick: a short review of Stephen King’s IT
For all its faults, IT is horror’s Moby Dick – a gargantuan tale so full of powerfully rendered characters, ideas and episodes that it bears returning to and analysing, one memorable passage at a time.
TV OR MOVIE? AND I LIED! (a bit….)
This week Steve writes a very short column about a new movie. Or is it new at all? It’s from a Japanese manga and animé series. And Steve has to go vote for himself in the Auroras. Will you be voting too?
AMAZING NEWS: 8/27/2017
Tributes to Brian Aldiss, Worldcon 75 aftermath, PKD anthology show, Near Earth Asteroid, Roy Krenkel art, authors speaking truth to power, nuclear zeppelins, more exoplanets and killer robots. What’s not to like?
Entrevista a Miguel Sequeiros Cardozo: Minificción de terror y horror
Interview with Miguel Sequeiros Cardozo, author of the horror microstory anthology Drops of Blood. Cardozo discusses the historical evolution of horror, the current outlook for Spanish horror literature and much, much more.
DO YOU KNOW MURRAY LEINSTER?
This week Steve looks at an almost-forgotten Golden Oldie SF writer: Will F. “Murray Leinster” Jenkins!
REVIEW: Marvelry’s Curiosity Shop, by Brhel & Sullivan
Many who enjoyed the thriller-type TV series of the seventies and eighties, plus Stephen King’s wonderful novel Needful Things, will enjoy the collection of tales called Marvelry’s Curiosity Shop.
KILLER RABBIT… er, REVIEW: “THE MIST” TV SHOW
This week Steve returns with a review of what he considers to be a terrible TV show. Do you agree? You’ll have to watch it to find out, and then you’ll be sorry!
Filming Stephen King: the task that’s defeated dozens of movie-makers
Why have so many Stephen King novels remained so stubbornly resistant to Hollywood adaptation?
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