Why did I waste so much time in the past 12 months seeing movies at The Block?

I mean, yeah, the Thursday midnight shows. Only game in town. But jeez, I just went to the Irvine Spectrum, and they had freakin’ stadium seating and DTS digital sound. Also, they had employees who actually shut the auditorium [...]

I notice many other horror reviewers are really liking THE STRANGERS. I’m not among them.

I had intended to write an early review on the OC blog, but the notes I took during the screening are in a notebook somewhere inside the office I no longer have keys for. So I’ll wing it a bit.

THE STRANGERS [...]

I grew up in Ireland, where even Playboy magazine was not legal.

As far as TV — we had two — count ‘em, TWO — TV channels. If you could afford a 20-foot antenna, you could get four more, from England.

Then, in the late ’80s, cable TV came in, bringing with it two new channels, SKY [...]

I know that over the past year, there have been slimmer pickings on this blog. When blogging becomes part of your job, the hobby elements of it inevitably suffer. And I have been very proud of some of the blog stuff I did for OC Weekly – I got them a lot of traffic.

But [...]

Effective immediately, I am no longer an employee of OC Weekly.

I wish my former colleagues the best of luck in their future endeavors.

Addendum: I don’t feel like getting into the whys or wherefores. As far as I can tell, I’m still welcome to freelance for Village Voice Media Publications.

But I did want to send out [...]

I don’t have a picture of David, so instead I’m re-running one of SAW V co-star Meagan Good. I doubt you’ll complain…

LYT: So you designed all the traps in the previous movies?

David Hackl: Not all of them myself, but I certainly had a hand in the traps from the past few movies

-How well would they [...]

I give to you… “Woodpeckers from Space”! Like Russ Abbot, must be seen to be believed. Again, a big hit in the UK.

I last talked to Tobin Bell over the phone in December, for an article about the year in horror films. Though I only used a brief quote in the final piece, I used some of the rest of our conversation as the basis for an OC Weekly online exclusive, and the rest, well…it was off [...]

Two of them…