“What’s the greatest television show in the whole wide world?!” Well, it’s no longer the OG Running Man. Or, was it really ever? Paul Glaser’s 1987 action romp on a modest budget is a Schwarzenegger fan’s often cited cult favorite. But let’s be honest, zingy one liners aside, it was never really a great flick. Stacked next to smash hits like Terminator 2, Total Recall and True Lies, The Running Ma...
In the spring of 2015, I wasn’t exactly doing a lot with my life. Working part-time in a minimum wage job I began a second Bachelor of Arts, because one round of unemployment wasn’t enough. I had just wrapped up my seventh rewatch of Sex and the City and was in search of another text through which to live vicariously as a sad twenty-something with no social plans on a Saturday night. It was the mo...
CANDYMAN is phenomenal. It’s confronting. Bloody, creative. It’s a wonderful mix of horror, melodrama, and comedy. I’m used to horror being either a fun, schlocky kill fest. Or a cerebral tale, filled with symbolism, and ultimately a social commentary. CANDYMAN is both. Now, CANDYMAN had some big shoes to fill. The original ‘Candyman’, released in 1992, is one of my favourite horror films. I wat...
