Posts by Colin Rafferty
A Frightfully Good Collection of Universal Monster Movies
Only six years pass between 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, the last of the classic Universal monster horror films, and 1960’s Peeping Tom, the first film we might call…
Read MoreSullivan’s Travels: Road Tripping at The Byrd
Along with Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and the Village People’s “YMCA,” Jack Kerouac’s 1959 novel On the Road must be one of the most misunderstood works of American…
Read MoreShane and Pale Rider
The Western has always been a means for Americans to see morality played out on the screen—good versus evil, the downtrodden saved by a person who nobly sacrifices in order…
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