Steveawiggins

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• Still Growing

  

  A couple of years ago I posted about Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors. Now life is so busy that when Friday rolls around my wife and I find ourselves at... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Recipe for Childhood

  

  I once read that over the course of an average lifespan, an American will eat 73,646 pounds of food.  Think about that.  That’s over 36 tons of food.  Apiece. ... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leaving Soon

  

  I’d been hoping to read the novel before seeing the movie, but there’s nothing like the words “leaving soon” on your streaming service to spur you into action.... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Easter Flowers

  

  Easter is our springtime holiday of hope.  Flowers are starting to bloom and the cold spells, when they come, don’t last too terribly long. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Don’t Look

  

  The title of this movie could stop one word shy. Of course, I had been warned. Don’t Look Away is a low-budget horror film. A low budget in and of itself doesn’... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Help

  

  Helpmeet was recommended to me by a friend. Since most of my reading these days seems to be in the form of long books, I welcomed a brief one. And the story,... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Reservations

  

  Having watched, and liked, Oddity some months ago, I was glad when a friend told me that Caveat was by the same writer/director, Damian McCarthy. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First, Kings

  

  Recently I sat down to read 1 Kings.  Of course, I used to teach Hebrew Bible so I have more than a passing familiarity with it.  This time, though, I was... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Popping Clowns

  

  You need a scorecard to keep track of all the killer clowns. While not the greatest horror movie, Clown in a Cornfield isn’t bad. As with most of my movie posts... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Little Gems

  

  On a recent diversion to a curio shop we like, I found that one of the “Dark Shadows” paperbacks they had was one I hadn’t read. Dark Shadows had, of course,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cool Book Festival

  

  So yesterday I was at the Lehigh Valley Book Festival. (It occurs to me know that I should perhaps post such notices in advance, but I know few people in the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Red Thread

  

  Theseus would never have survived the labyrinth without the help of Ariadne.  After escaping the minotaur, the two eloped and, according to some versions of... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Together Again

  

  Body horror can be gruesome, but also thought-provoking. Together shares a similar them to The Substance, namely, bodies merging. They differ in the details, an... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bounce Back

  

  I confess to being a graphomaniac.  I write a lot.  I’ve done this pretty much most of my life, and so I tend to have backlogs, both fiction and nonfiction. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Actual Intelligence

  

  Horror movies love a good sequel. A self-referential genre, there’s a lot of give and take and reassessing. I may have waited a little too long to watch M3GAN... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shopping News

  

  It’s one of the perils of the online age.  You order something online and the company (which has more money than a mere individual) asks you to pay for their... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Haunted

  

  Having watched Haunted Summer, I was curious about the origin of the screenplay. I’d read that the movie was based on a screen treatment by Anne Edwards, a... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Summers and Hauntings

  

  I’ve written before about that odd Ken Russell movie Gothic, one of my “old movies.” In case you missed it, the film is a fictional retelling of the gathering o... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just Average

  

  It certainly feels like it.  That web searching has grown a lot more frustrating since AI has taken over.  For some of us, Al has no idea how our minds work or... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Conan

  

  What are Weapons without a Barbarian? I learned about the latter movie after reading about the former. After watching Weapons I knew I had to see Barbarian. It... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2026 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY