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A Star is Born, The Sisters Brothers, 2018 Horrorfest, Major School book...
by Sam Juliano On Friday at the Number 3 School Annex where Lucille serves as Principal and I as children’s literature instructor, 2018 Caldecott contender Frane Lessac (a favorite son who grew up in...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: A House That Once Was
by Sam Juliano Life has come and life has gone. Time has gone by with no one to tend it, happiness in its past, for it will never feel love again. -Anne Crawford Driving through a remote,...
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘PERSONA’: “Just what kind of person are you, anyway?”
© 2018 by James Clark In some ways, the output of films by Ingmar Bergman could be called an early rendition of serial drama, minus the TV and plus the theatrical rhetoric. That medieval...
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Creepshow
By J.D. Lafrance Anticipation was high among horror fans when it was announced that three giants of the genre were going to collaborate together on a film. Author Stephen King, director George A....
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‘The Old Man and the Gun’ and HorrorFest review of ‘The Lady and the Monster’...
by Sam Juliano Mid October is upon us and finally it appears the cool temperatures normal for this time of the year are settling in. The Caldecott series in underway, though I have been tied up at...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Blue
by Sam Juliano Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Blue is the second part of a critically-praised 1993 trilogy made in France which features acclaimed actress Juliette...
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Candyman
By J.D. Lafrance Based on Clive Barker’s short story, “The Forbidden,” Candyman (1992) is one of the more well-known mainstream horror films to openly acknowledge and use urban legends as the basis...
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First Man, Halloween and HorrorFest 2018 on Monday Morning Diary (October 22)
by Sam Juliano Chilly temperatures have suddenly arrived, though the calendar has been hinting at such a wake-up call for a few weeks now. Halloween is in full regalia in schools, homes and at...
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Friday the 13th – The Series
by J.D. Lafrance In the late 1980’s, Frank Mancuso Jr., then caretaker of the popular and profitable Friday the 13th series of films, decided to branch off into a television series but without the...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Drawn Together
by Sam Juliano A picture paints a thousand words. In some instances an accomplished poet may only require a few words to evoke an image, while others negotiate greater length and an abundance of...
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The Hate You Give, major book events and 2018 Horror Fest on Monday Morning...
Star (Amanda Stenberg) in shattering “The Hate You Give” by Sam Juliano Another Halloween is upon us and with it legions of trick or treaters descending on our chilly suburban streets in wearing that...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Adrian Simcox Does Not Have A Horse
by Sam Juliano Eleanor Estes won a Newbery Honor in 1945 for a deeply poignant work about bullying, immigration, intolerance and forgiveness titled The Hundred Dresses. The timeless classic,...
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John Carpenter’s Halloween
by J.D. Lafrance I never saw John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) at a young, impressionable age so it never imprinted on my psyche like The Birds (1963), Night of the Living Dead (1968), and Jaws...
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S WINTER LIGHT “You’re not really real…”
© 2018 by James Clark Our film today is, even by the standards of Bergman’s shoot-out-all-the-lights iconoclasm, over the top. Whereas his other films hop to it to embed, near the beginning,...
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Boy Erased, Free Solo, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Book event and Horror-thon...
by Sam Juliano Post Halloween means chillier temperatures, leaves all over the place, and Election Day. The mid-terms are an urgent proposition and Wonders in the Dark urges all of our readers to...
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John Carpenter’s They Live
by J.D. Lafrance “I’m disgusted by what we’ve become in America. I truly believe there is brain death in this country.” – John Carpenter Filmmaker John Carpenter has always considered himself as an...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
by Sam Juliano The term “Trail of Tears” defines the trek of heartbroken Native Americans to their new homes in the West. It captures the essence of the removal experience, one wrought with hardship...
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Bohemian Rhapsody; Beautiful Boy; Mid90s, El Angel, Lean On Pete and Horror...
by Sam Juliano Election Day 2018 spelled pretty good news for national Democrats with the House of Representative now wrested from Trump control, though a lot of work still needs to be done heading...
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Jason Bourne: Geopolitical Action Hero
By J.D. Lafrance When The Bourne Identity (2002) debuted in theaters audiences were hungry for a new kind of spy film. The James Bond movies adhered to a tried-and-true formula and it had gotten old....
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘CRIES AND WHISPERS’“She’s already beginning to rot…”
© 2018 by James Clark We’re off and running with another breathtaking film by Ingmar Bergman, namely, Cries and Whispers (1972). The nature of this production entails, as usual, thrilling...
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