by Jason Bovberg | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Scott Phillips burst onto the crime scene with his superb, pitch-black thriller The Ice Harvest, which was made into pretty good film starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton—but the original novel has an evil-grin dark humor that’ll knock you flat. Published in...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 26, 2019 | Film, Ingmar Bergman
In June 1983, my dad dropped me off at an Edwards Cinema near South Coast Plaza, in Santa Ana, California, to see Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, a 3-hour foreign film that had been covered enthusiastically by the Los Angeles Times’ Calendar section. I was 15...
by Jason Bovberg | May 12, 2017 | Blood Dawn
It seems every year that Fort Collins—“Fort Fun,” “Choice City”—ranks high on national periodicals’ lists of the best places to live in the United States. In the past 10 years, the city has received top honors in such magazines as Business Week, Forbes, Kiplinger,...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 22, 2016 | Journalism
I first became aware of Brian Hodge in the early 1990s, when I was working at a B. Dalton Bookseller in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Dell Abyss line of horror novels, under the direction of Bantam editor Jeanne Cavelos, had just started blowing up the genre, infusing...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 20, 2016 | Horror, Journalism, Uncategorized
(This interview was conducted in 2003 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary DVD release of Cronos, Guillermo del Toro’s first film.) You know who Guillermo del Toro is, right? If you’re a fan of DVD and horror films, he’s the Dude. You’ve...