Lost Between the Spaces: Gravity (2013)
Lost Between the Spaces: Gravity (2013) Right from the very start I’ve had a love of cinematic space tales. By the end of the sixties my dad had taken me to several films—Westerns featured heavily—but 1969 was the first time I was allowed to go on my own. Well, with no parents anyway; my younger brother Donald was there, a quiet guy who was then and is now a nice bloke to catch a movie with. The year puts my age at ten and the...
The Never-Quenched Thirst: Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep
The Never-Quenched Thirst: Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep When does a supernatural tale move beyond being ‘just’ that? When does a ghost story stop being ‘only’ a ghost story? When do they cross some invisible psychic line and become something more? When does what seems on the surface to be a yarn about a peculiar kind of vampire become a harrowing look at the illness of alcoholism? Then again, they both are horror...
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