Fantasy, sci-fi dominate highest grossing movies of all time (12/4/19, UW Oshkosh)

The highest grossing movies of the year and of all time have one striking similarity: they’re overwhelmingly fantasy and sci-fi. In 2019 alone, Walt Disney Studios has managed to bring in over a billion dollars for five different movies, and with a couple more titles still to be released before 2020, it’s no question they’llContinue reading “Fantasy, sci-fi dominate highest grossing movies of all time (12/4/19, UW Oshkosh)”

Local ghost story hits theaters (01/31/17, Madison College)

Horror movies these days are usually a hit or miss. Scary, not scary. Jump scares, no jump scares. If it’s actually good or not. The new “horror” movie, The Bye Bye Man, is based on a somewhat true story that happened in the 1990s from the book The President’s Vampire by Robert Damon Schneck inContinue reading “Local ghost story hits theaters (01/31/17, Madison College)”

Minors and R-rated movies (10/04/16, Madison College)

Recently, I was working one of my normal Monday night closing shifts in the concessions stand at the Palace Cinema in Sun Prairie. Seeing that it was a slow night, I was talking to one of my friends, who also works at the theater, standing next to the concessions stand, seeing that she had theContinue reading “Minors and R-rated movies (10/04/16, Madison College)”