by Jason Bovberg | Oct 31, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
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 | Oct 1, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
The secret’s been out for years now, but in case you didn’t know it—and in case you’ve never seen a photo of him—Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. He came admirably to prominence outside the shadow of his father with the excellent collection of short stories, 20th...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 18, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
You might remember Liz Phair as an iconic, foul-mouthed feminist rocker from the early 1990s. She burst onto the music scene in ’93 with her Exile in Guyville album, and has kept up an intriguing though inconsistent career with such works as Whip-Smart and...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 26, 2019 | Film, Ingmar Bergman, Reviews
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 | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog, Horror, Reviews
This October, I waded through scads of streamable Netflix horror flicks—sometimes watching two or three per day—in an effort to weed out some true gems. Most of these are indie films I’d never seen before, and some were re-appreciations of recent gems I’d already...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 24, 2014 | Film, Hitchcock, Reviews
After watching nearly all of Alfred’s Hitchcock’s films (save for a few obscure early offerings), I decided to rank them—42 of them!—in order of preference. See if your opinions jibe with mine! Here we go, starting from the top … Psycho...
