Tag: 2015 year end

There are few characters more easily recognizable than Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. One of the reasons for that is how prominently they’ve been featured in various media forms over the years. For those of us in Generation X, there’s a really good chance that when you think of those (and so many…

There are a handful of movies that pretty much became instant Christmas Classics in my life. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is one of those movies. It’s got a high-talent cast working with a script from one of the 80s best comedy writers (John Hughes) and touches on something a whole lot of people can related…

Yet another delivery from a Kickstarter project I backed. This time, it’s the Ghostbusters Board Game that Cryptozoic ran a campaign for. It was a solid campaign, not a flawless one, but they’ve handled problems pretty well. What’s really neat about this one is that it’s one of the few board games that’s got a…

I never really go into a sequel expecting much. Especially if the first movie is pretty awesome. With Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming, that was a very, very good idea. As I said the other day, I really love the original. It makes the most of what it has to work with and does so fantastically.…

When it came out back in 1999, Stir of Echoes was high on my list of horror films to see. First, it had Kevin Bacon in it. He’s always awesome. Second, it was based on a story by Ricahrd Matheson. He’s also always awesome. Mostly, though, it was because it looked interesting and stylish. Which is…