WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Iatrophobia is just a posh way of referring to ‘White Coat Syndrome’ in my opinion. This is something I won’t deny that I suffer from, may be not to such an extreme that I would refer to it as a phobia but there’s definitely been medical professionals in the …
Horror By Numbers Pt 1
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Now, some people may just see this as a lazy of me creating more articles, and I guess in some ways it can be seen that way. However, I think this was a nice way of covering horror films without having a specific theme that connected their plots. Buckle …
Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 23rd September 1920 Died: 6th April 2014 (age 93) Child star Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jnr) was born into an acting family, his mother was a former chorus girl and burlesque performer while his father was a vaudevillian. He moved to Hollywood with his mother at the …
Druig AKA Barry Keoghan
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I was trying to find out exactly who Druig was in the comic books and it seems not much is actually known about him other than he is Ikaris’ cousin (that wasn’t mentioned in the film…) and worked for the KGB…does this make Barry Keoghan’s Irish accent out of …
Easter Horror
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers As Easter is fast approaching (well, it’s happening in the next few days to be exact) I thought it would be an interesting idea to take a look at what Easter horror films are floating around out there and giving them the same treatment as those for Christmas. Please …
George Segal (1934-2021)
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born: 13th February 1934 Died: 23rd March 2021 Most of us know George Segal as the fun ‘Pops’ from The Goldbergs but he started his life in New York City born the fourth child of George and Bonnie Segal. Both sets of grandparents were Russian-Jewish migrants but he was …
Ochophobia
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m sure none of you will be surprised when I say that this article was inspired by my watching of John Carpenter’s adaptation of Christine. I wanted to focus mainly on haunted vehicles as ochophobia is the fear of vehicles in general – but unfortunately it’s rare to find …
Strong Female Characters
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Truthfully, this article may have been the inspiration for this whole blog – it’s just taken a long time for me to write it. Remember when Elizabeth Banks openly said, when talking about her ‘reboot’ of Charlie’s Angels, ‘If this movie doesn’t make any money, then it reinforces a …
Mother’s Day 1980 vs 2010
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’ve mentioned this film previously in my A Mother’s Love article and believe I referenced the fact that more detail was incoming. Truthfully, when I saw the words ‘loosely based on’ I didn’t think this article was actually going to see that light of day but here it is! …
Kris Kristofferson
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m going to go into this in a little more depth later on, but the fact that my first introduction to Kris Kristofferson was watching Blade at the age of 15 – I honestly had no idea he was a singer. I always thought of him as an actor …