HoopTober6.0 #8 of 31
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When you work with the public, in an environment that welcomes people together, your life naturally intertwines with those you serve. Hundreds of people walk through the doors of the Olympia library each day for any number of reasons. And many of those people visit us every single day. Albert was a patron I saw almost every day for several years. The same bus dropped him off each…
HoopTober 11
28/31
review by Holly
Let me tell you a story. It began in the year 2000. Some teens tried to cheat death and lost. This kicked off the beginning of a macabre franchise that brought us five movies over an 11-year span (and promises another in 2025). And what joy that franchise has wrought.
Final Destination 5 jumps right in with a good opening credit sequence and delivers a wild ride from start to finish.…
HoopTober 11
27/31
review by Holly
The Final Destination had some of the best opening credits we’ve seen. It was like a montage of deaths from the earlier movies, and I am all about that. It was fun to reminisce about all of those deaths, and how horrifying they were! It was great.
I remember going to see this movie in 3D, even though I hadn’t seen any of the previous installments at that point, because I…
HoopTober6.0 #31 of 31
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“Carrie” has not lost an ounce of its power since it was released over 43 years ago. If anything, its stature has only grown. If you’ve never seen it, or it’s been awhile, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It’s one of the best movies ever made.
There are several monsters lurking around Carrie White. There’s Chris, the alpha among the girls in her school,…
HoopTober Ocho 1/31
HoopTober can feel like a marathon, so it’s certainly energizing to get off to a great start. Housebound is one of those horror movies that makes you crave more horror movies. Horror comedies (or as a colleague likes to call them, “ho-coms”) might be the most difficult variety of horror movie to pull off. Unless you balance the tone just right and pitch the performances properly, the attempts at humor almost always…
