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The Meg Director: Jon Turtletaub Cast: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose Studio: Gravity Pictures 2.5/5 We are fascinated with animals that can put us right back in our place on the food chain. But that brief moment of humility is typically bypassed when virility comes into […]
In my investigations of Canadian folklore and supernatural stories, one recurring theme has seized potential interviewees: the risk to their being employable. Their concern with getting a job is warranted, because, should it get out that they’ve witnessed a ghost or bigfoot, they could be seen as odd. I get […]
The critter that had Twitter in a tizzy back in mid-May has been tested, and guess what? It’s a gray wolf. Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks in Helena released a news release in Jue. Somehow that was missed by most media that followed Twitter’s response to the lupine form shot by a […]
Slender Man Director: Sylvain White Cast: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair Studio: Mythology Entertainment 2.5/5 The digital pastiche that spawned Slender Man on the forums of Something Awful has led to ubiquity. Slender Man is a blend of Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and a Lovecraftian abomination, with its tendrils […]
Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto is following in his predecessor’s footsteps with the reboot of In Search Of, which premiered July 20. Quinto will host the third iteration of the show, which has been hosted by, Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy and Mitch Pileggi in the past. The bulk of the […]
On the wall of Mary Willan Mason’s one-bedroom apartment is an ancient Egyptian artefact from Abydos. It was an inspired gift to herself, from one of Canada’s more well-known female archaeologists, Amice Calverley. Calverley was a schoolmate of Mason’s mother, Gladys Willan (nee Hall). She beams when she points to […]
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS … TAKES A LITTLE LONGER Call it a time warp, or perhaps a money pit, but one paranormal investigator in Nevada alleges to have found a space-time abnormality. Joshua Warren, a History Channel personality, said in a statement that he detected the time warp in a […]
Hereditary Director: Ari Aster Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro, Alex Wolff and Ann Dowd Studio: Elevation Pictures 3/5 It seems as though Hollywood is sweet on witches these days. And I do mean Hansel and Gretel sweet as two youngsters are lured into the world of spiritualism unwittingly, […]
Sometimes, when I was out-of-line as a kid, my mom would warn me she’d make me read the Bible. One other time, when I was older, it was Bible camp — a passing moment where I made a glib comment about the Faith Baptist bus scooting by. I’m sure those […]
Much to the bemusement of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff members, social media lit up with full moon fever when a large wolf-like animal was shot and killed May 16. The quarry was bagged by a rancher near Denton, Mont, and it still has officials wondering just what it […]