As a frequent listener of the long running Where Did The Road Go?, I’ve found it easy to appreciate the enthusiasm and sincere curiosity with which Seriah interviews guests and approaches unusual subject matter. Though presented as a basic overview of his work in radio and podcasting, the focus here is largely centered by a smattering of Seriah’s firsthand accounts of odd occurrences without a lot of personal background given otherwise, which works just fine.
In the other direction, it…
Filmed 40 years ago this month/week/day, let’s knock this all-time favorite down to size by highlighting a few odd details zeroed in on while giving the 4K UHD disc a spin this afternoon.
Throughout the film, the kids’ underlying situation is recognized as their families needing to relocate due to their homes being bought out and slated for demolition to make way for a (very steep) golf course. Would all of these families really need to leave town? Moving from…
Much of The Boy Who Could Fly feels true to what growing up in 1980's suburbia was like, delivering glimpses of some of the finer consistencies between the domestic experience of fighting the mundane in the green grassy yards of adolescence and something like a string of commercials for Tide, Sunny Delight and G.I. Joe viewed during an After-School Special. This film also stars a doberman named Hitler filling in for writer/director Nick Castle as the hedge lurking Shape, assisting…
The second story deck is a strange place to find an exterior water faucet.
