Tag: stephen king
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Pennywise: The Story of IT
Here’s a little documentary movie about Stephen King’s IT that may be better than both the actual movies and maybe even the bloated novel itself. There is practically a rivalry between the fans of the original 1990 version of IT and the 2017 remake, with Tim Curry and Bill Skarsgård playing the role of Pennywise…
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It: Chapter Two
Overlong and meandering, and without the coming-of-age story that propped up the first movie, It: Chapter Two is a ferociously tedious film to be endured. Before we slip into the stinky sewer that is It: Chapter Two, I thought some quick context on my opinion of It: Chapter One might be in order. I can’t…
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Pet Sematary
It’s inevitable that we would compare the new Pet Sematary movie to the 1989 version. Does it manage to top the original Mary Lambert film? I don’t know if I realized it before this week, but from what I can see, Pet Sematary gets a lot of derision. I’ve seen a lot of bashing of…
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It
More than two decades after the TV movie, Stephen King’s ‘It’ is back with a theatrical version that has broken the box office wide open. In 1990, a much younger Brando sat down with his friends to watch what would become one of the first flicks to ever scare him: Stephen King’s It. It didn’t give…
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The Dark Tower
You could probably have stopped at the goosebumpy trailer for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, because this garbage fire of a movie couldn’t measure up. There is a stringent and ardent fanbase of author Stephen King’s self-proclaimed “magnum opus”, The Dark Tower series. This film adaptation has got a prebuilt, healthy backstory laid out in…
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Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill
I read my first Stephen King book when I was around 10, but I haven’t really read one since I was a teenager. Somewhere as a young adult, I got into material that was better written, prose-wise, and I think King simultaneously began his decline, fading away from the inventive ideas that marked his earlier…