Tag Archives: Stephen King

My ten favourite films of 2019

After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Kansas but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.

Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.

A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works.

If you ever wanted to find a renewed appreciation for just how good shows like Game of Thrones are, spend 45 minutes watching CBS’ pilot of Stephen King’s Under The Dome.  The concept of the show is unashamedly escapist sci-fi fare – a giant invisible dome suddenly materializes over a small American town.  Cut off from the outside world, they ...

Survivor: Caramoan “Show me your teeth!” I don’t quite know how it came to this but here we are at the final tribal council and there is a contestant badgering Dawn, an elderly Mormon mother of six, to take out her false teeth so she can reveal her insecurities on national television as penance for voting someone off.  That’s reality ...

“The man in black fled across the dessert, and the gunslinger followed.” When it comes to books, I’m always cautious of the fantasy genre.  I don’t necessarily object to them in principle and I enjoy plenty of fantasy genre films and video games.  It’s just that the fantasy genre for books almost always favours sprawling epics that take the author ...

11/22/63 is the latest novel from Stephen King in which a divorced high school teacher Jake Epping meets an aging cancer-afflicted fry cook who reveals he has a time portal in his diner that transports you to 1958.  The fry cook explains that it is possible to make changes in the past, then travel back to the present to witness ...

Domo arigato, Mr King.