Really Awful Movies

Remembering George Romero

You always remember your first. George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was the horror movie gateway drug for this author, age 11 or so, on a Halloween night long ago, chopped to bits on Buffalo’s Fox affiliate WUTV yet still retaining its indelible impact. Sure, frights had come before (Dr Who’s creepy score, those saltshakerContinue reading “Remembering George Romero”

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things

Once again, we turn to The Simpsons here, as in one episode Springfield’s resident hippie tells Principal Skinner to SIMPLIFY, MAN! That’s essentially the thrust of Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, a minimalist documentary that maximizes lifestyle hectoring. Two ex-Wall Street types travel the country positing that people would be happier with aContinue reading “Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things”