Old Sport's Thirteen Motion Picture Discoveries of 2023
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
When each year starts, I see myself as an explorer sailing the uncharted cinematic waters in search of treasure.
Here there Be Dragons: 6 Favorite Sea Monsters
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Here are six of my favorite beasts from beneath the sea!
Rosalie Kicks's Favorite 11 Motion Pictures of 2022
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Welp, another year shot, old sport. Which means it is time for the best flicks lists to make an appearance.
Everything Old Is New Again, Vol. 46 - December, 2022
by “Doc” Hunter Bush, Podcast Czar
Season’s greetings readers! Here we are at the end of another exhausting year, searching for entertainment to accompany us during the long nights
Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO is made with intricacy and care
by Rosalie Kicks, Editor in Chief and Old Sport
Did we need another Pinocchio? Simple answer: No. However, I would like to point out this is not just any Pinocchio film, this is instead a creation from the mind of Guillermo del Toro.
Women in Horror - Strangers in a Strange Land
by Ashley Jane Davis and Jaime Davis, Staff Writers
Some of our favorite spooky/creepy/scary/terrifying stories are all about women, and let’s just say it - oftentimes complicated women - who find themselves, horrifically, in new and unexpected territories.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY offers a one-way ticket to self-destruction
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
When a movie opens with a good old fashioned body disposal, fire, and a celebration afterwards at a traveling carnival, I know I am watching the right film.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Vol. 34 - December, 2021
by “Doc” Hunter Bush, Staff Writer
Well here at Everything Old Is New Again, we’re down with down time, so long as its spend with a movie or TV series (and, following protocol, that it be based on some pre-existing concept, movie, book, or what have you).
A Novel Concept: CRIMSON PEAK
by Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
The marketing did lie to us.
A Novel Concept: THE SHAPE OF WATER
by Emily Maesar, Staff Writer
In some ways the novelization of The Shape of Water it’s a more sanitized version of the story from the film.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Written by Dan and Kevin Hagemen (with some help from Guillermo del Toro)
Directed by André Øvredal
Starring Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza and Gabriel Rush
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for terror/violence, disturbing images, thematic elements, language including racial epithets, and brief sexual references.
Running time: 1 hour and 51 minutes
by Allison Yakulis
I’d like to suggest that Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) is a family friendly(-ish) horror film. I’m not talking about your spooky/macabre comedies like The Addams Family (of which there is an impending reboot set to drop in October) or Hocus Pocus (1993) or anything you’d indiscriminately show the kiddos - Scary Stories is certainly unsettling enough to have earned its PG-13 rating. But if you have a few tweens running around that seem to have a budding interest in horror, it’ll likely make the perfect gateway drug, much like its source material has been doing for almost 40 years.
The Devil's Backbone
by Billy Russell
“What is a ghost?” ponders Dr. Casares (Federico Luppi), who runs an orphanage for children whose parents have abandoned them or died in the Spanish Civil War. “A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.”
Read MoreIn Crimson Peak
by Shayna Grissom
I am drawn to films that are big, shiny and boldly colored. The Fall, What Dreams May Come, The Fountain, and of course Pan’s Labyrinth, are films that pull my attention every time. I want to feel immersed in a film’s colors and shapes. In an age of loud and flashy, the symbolism behind imagery is often left more to marketing strategy and lacks the sincerity that I need to connect with a film.
Read MoreThe Shape of Water
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (2017)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
The Shape of Water may be perceived as a fairy tale to some. But for me, the story and themes in which it presents seem all too real for it to be considered one.
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