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In 1927, H.P. Lovecraft wrote a short story called “The Colour Out of Space”. The tale accounts the events of a farm and it's inhabitants after being struck by a meteorite in the late 1880’s.

A color seemingly hitched a ride on the meteorite, a color never before seen by the human eye. This color, behaving almost like an organism itself, a virus if you will, spreads throughout the flora and fauna, wreaking havoc and destruction. The surrounding area becomes a hotbed of bizarre, otherworldly occurrences, unexplainable by science.

This idea of a geographical area. . .

In 1983, Martin Scorsese was at the end of his rope.

He was growing tired of the increasingly slow, obstacle strewn way Hollywood pictures got made. More painfully, his dream project, The Last Temptation of Christ, had been cancelled by Paramount at the eleventh hour just before he was to start principal photography.

Out of this dispiriting morass, came a movie miracle…

1981 – The Year of the Wolf, man.

For unknown (and, admittedly, unresearched) reasons, four separate werewolf movies were released in the US in 1981. Perhaps it was a final resonance of the seventies – the hairiest decade in recent history – or maybe it was one of those Armageddon / Deep Impact confluences. However it happened, this pack of Reagan-era loup-garou resulted in an Alpha classic, one worthwhile Beta, and, though user experiences may vary, two Omega dogs…

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021, dir by Carlos Lopez Estrada & Don Hall, USA) is the newest Disney movie to hit its Disney+ streaming platform (given the pandemic). Although due to the new LA movie theater re-openings, it is also at the cineplex!

I am a bit late, but seeing the advertisements everywhere intrigued me.

I am a Disney fan. Watching Disney movies is so comforting. It gives you hope about the world. It transports you to another universe where fairytales and magic exist, and every ending is a happy one.

I am enjoying the new generation of badass female protagonists. . .

Youth is wasted on the young. A saying that a future critic might have heard a million times, and became sick of. This future critic may have been jealous of adults, their freedom, and the independence that they possess.

Adults should be grateful, and not long for a time when they were subject to the whims of their parents, incarcerated at home or in school.

Along with independence. . .

1974’s original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (directed by Joseph Sargent, screenplay by Peter Stone) is one of those fascinatingly perfect movies made by a group of professionals who probably wanted to make something riveting and entertaining and, through the sheer brilliant skill of their craft, turned a potboiler into scrappy art.

The story is all genre thrills: a highly prepared team of thieves. . .

This is another film chosen at random from my list, that I didn’t remember anything about. I would like to thank my past self, because Extra Ordinary is a winner.

Rose is a psychic who is trying not to be a psychic and just be a driving instructor, because she fears her talent is dangerous. Martin is…

Why do we treat the real lives of people who marry into royal families like cinematic dramas we can enjoy and comment on without consequence? Why do the royals of the near past and current moment seem so analogous to actors who rise then crash and burn? A look at two cases that literally involve actresses marrying into royal families-Grace Kelly in the 1950’s and Meghan Markle in the 2000’s-show the double standards that apply in how we consume real grief and suffering as entertainment.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry did not shy from public attention and scrutiny.