This 90’s trip to Hill House is largely built on the same story foundations as the 1963 - a group comes to a creepy old place (the exteriors are Belvoir Castle and it looks perfect here) for a sleep study to take place. Lily Taylor is ready to go hang out at the study cause she struggles sleeping but also cause she has nowhere to try and sleep. Her family has kicked her to the curb cause they’re very ive.…

There are dream screenings and there are GODDAMN DREAM SCREENINGS. I got into movie programming and hosting cause I wanted to do SORCERER one day, cause I got pissed the one time I saw it on the big screen where it was barely attended in a tiny house with no marketing behind it. I’ve only hosted 500 or so screenings since then, but I finally got to do SORCERER and folks sold it out - a sweet feeling after being…

“The Cinema has become a memory”

We all have the cinemas where we fell in love with movies. Some I had are demolished. Some are sitting as gutted buildings. Some are still flickering digital images. They’re all still alive in my mind. 

I love the movies. I love the movie theater - it is my Church. I love going to the movies, even if I don’t get to do it as much as I’d like or as much as I…

If being a vampire means playing old folk songs like “wild mountain thyme,” dancing and having Hailee Steinfeld spit in my mouth while a blues stomp goes on sign me the fuck up…

This is the delta blues, the repeating cycle of oppression and racism, and trying to escape it and elevate our pain thru art, a gangster flick and horror all wrapped inside FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. In fact, it’s as if FROM DUSK TILL DAWN went down to…