Category: Contemporary Corner
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Friends, let me say one thing right off the bat. I don’t have a long, storied history with Wuthering Heights. I did not spend my formative years sobbing over Emily Brontë’s iconic novel. I read it once. My prevailing memory, I believe, is watching the 1939 William Wyler film at far too young an age. I…
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I like a movie that’s not afraid to take a big swing. An original swing. Heck, even a weird swing. Truthfully? I’m willing to forgive a less-than-perfect movie that dares to try something new. In this day and age, it’s not often that a work tries to break the mold. Then I watched Pillion… Pillion follows Colin…
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Piercing Pop Culture is breaking some rules today. Over on the podcast we’re venturing back over to contemporary corner for a late night dive into The Running Man which is hitting theaters around the United States on November 14th. Stay tuned for more here on Piercing Pop Culture.
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Remember 2017’s hotly anticipated “Dark Universe” horror franchise? Yeah, not many do. Nothing really came of it… and rightly so. But lately, I’ve decided something. Universal missed a huge opportunity. Robert Eggers and Guillermo del Toro were right there! They could have carried the entire series on their shoulders alone. Nosteratu? Frankenstein? I bet Universal…
