Author: Rainestorm

Harry Potter and the oh my god I’m so tired…

I am NOT old. That’s what I keep telling myself. And I’m not. I’m only 41. That’s like 18 in giant tortoise years. Nevertheless, three solid nights of Harry Potter, going to bed late and waking up early to get…

Harry Potter and the Angry Mob

I predict a riot. The scent of disgruntlement is already in the air. It appears the great deal that AMC Theatres offered for the Harry Potter marathon may have been a wee bit too good to be true. $40 for…

Harry Potter and the Long Haul

It’s been ten years running. It’s gone through six cinematographers, four directors, four composers, two writers, and only one major cast change. It has made more than six billion dollars worldwide and after this weekend will likely make a half-billion…

Inception: A Perfect Puzzle

As Sunday approaches and we all pretend to actually care about the Academy Awards, we at Rainestorm decided to highlight the film we feel most deserves to win Best Picture. No, not that Facebook movie. The one movie that managed…

Time and Time Again

One of the more interesting aspects of the way Christopher Nolan structures Inception is how he plays with the concept of time. Nowhere is this more telling than in that final act of four-deep nested dreams. With a combination of…

Genre Bending

Look hard enough and you can find any number of differing opinions as to how many plots, themes, genres, etc. there actually are in cinematic fiction. Most films tend to belong to one genre, though

Figures of speech

King of the airwaves. At some point in a performer’s career, he or she is given the opportunity to play a character that is impaired or afflicted in a way that most of us are not. In such instances, the…

Wrap-up It’s been a fantastic Halloween month. I hope you enjoyed the daily selection of films chosen for this years fright film fest. Below is a listing of all the films highlighted this year. I hope you had a Happy…

31 Nights, 31 Frights: Halloween

Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Halloween'

Alfred Hitchcock may have invented the slasher film with Psycho but John Carpenter transformed it into its own sub-genre. Virtually every horror film that followed owes its conception to this perennial holiday darling. Michael Myers has become the quintessential Halloween boogeyman and cemented his place among the throng of horror movie monsters who cannot-be-killed.