Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
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Scary Movies: Village of the Damned
Last night, as per our annual Halloween scary movie schedule, the family watched Village of the Damned (1960). This is a British film, produced by MGM-UK, and I’ve always had something of a fascination for it. When I was seven or eight, an issue… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Village of the Damned”
Ranking Scary Movies
I’ve love horror movies. I always have, ever since I was a little kid. Not sure why, there’s just something primal in them that appeals to me. In my house, we have movie night every Saturday. We cycle so that my son picks the… Continue Reading “Ranking Scary Movies”
Scary Movies: Jaws
Jaws was my kids’ first horror movie, and they loved it. We watched it at Halloween and my daughter asked to watch it again on her movie night just a few weeks ago. She’s six years old, by the way, so already her taste… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: Jaws”
Ranking the James Bond Movies
So my son is 10 years old, and over the past year or so, we’ve been watching some of the James Bond movies together. Many of these I have not seen since I was in high school. We have half a dozen on DVD,… Continue Reading “Ranking the James Bond Movies”
What I’m Reading: Grit Lit
Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader collects short stories from the past 30 years or so in the sub-genre the collection calls “Rough South.” These are stories set in the South among mostly blue-collar families or the rural underclass, folks with a tendency towards drink,… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Grit Lit”
Ranking the Spider-Man Movies
So far I’ve ranked the Batman movies, the Superman movies, the other DC movies, the Avengers movies, the X-Men movies, the summer 2015 comic movies and the non-Marvel and non-DC comic movies. There’s only one major franchise of super-hero movies yet to do, and that is the Spider-Man franchise. So here… Continue Reading “Ranking the Spider-Man Movies”
