A troubled fourteen-year-old girl runs away in 70’s California and meets an outlandish assortment of individuals including cannibals, warlocks, and bikers as she settles into a world of drugs, promiscuity, and life on the street in First Trip by Cheryl Taylor.

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In 2006, writer/director Tim Sullivan surprised many fans of the horror/comedy/gore genre (does it have a more specific name?) by making a non-terrible re-imagining of H.G. Lewis’ cult classic Two Thousand Maniacs. 2001 Maniacs starred Robert Englund as Mayor Buckman and managed to toe the line between complete ridiculousness and comedic gorefest. In 2010, Sullivan’s [...]

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There’s a world of difference between being an active witness to bullying and abuse, and being merely a bystander. A bystander has already decided to be an uninvolved spectator, to look the other way, to pretend ignorance if called upon. A witness can make a tactical decision based on the circumstances – intervene now in [...]

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For 20% or more of Americans the name of this end of summer ‘holiday’ is the cruelest reminder of anxiety since, perhaps, the era of Taft and FDR when millions of Americans were desperately seeking to support themselves amidst the first major depression. Then at least many still lived on farms or had relatives who [...]

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