I’ve been writing blogs on Box Office Poison for about a year now, but I previously wrote for a couple of businesses I worked for, as well as an LGBT+ blog as a teenager (which you will never find, ever, as long as I shall live, that skeleton is BURIED MY WRITING WAS SO BAD), but I find that most of my inspiration for writing blogs has come from the endless list of independently-run lifestyle/topic specific blogs I’ve stumbled across. Here are a few of my current favorites:
There are quite a few film-related channels on Youtube, and a critic that resonates with you can sometimes be hard to come by. Within the last year, I’ve found a couple of channels that have given me content I’ve been craving as well as some that have changed the way I look at film criticism.
Fun fact: I can’t spell absence right until I make at least three attempts.
Hello! It’s been a minute since I last wrote, and I feel like I should explain, and give you a proper rundown of my plans for the future of this blog.
I didn’t see as many in theaters as I would’ve liked to, but I got to see quite a few movies that were new to me by FINALLY watching movies I purchased ages ago, or by binging them with my roommates. So here is a list of movies that I saw in theaters this year, as well as my plans for Box Office Poison in 2018.
An updated version of an essay that I wrote for my Intro to Film class a few years ago on John Huston’s 1951 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
I’m really just posting this here because Humphrey Bogart’s characters name is Charlie Allnut and that’s the greatest thing ever.
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November is the time for noir! Roger Ebert wrote A Guide To Film Noir Genre, perfectly summarizing the characteristics and themes often featured in these films if you wanted more information on what exactly I will be talking about today. Here are my top five Film noir picks for Noirvember:
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I went to my local movie theater the other day to see the new It movie (which was exceptional, by the way, and I’ll post about that soon) and I had a great time. It was one of those rare instances where the entire audience is on the same page. I got to thinking more about my experience, rather than the film itself, when I was watching Chris Stuckmann’s video A Rant on Annoying Moviegoers. He has two of these videos, and I will link his Youtube channel. He’s a fantastic film critic, please check him out. The two Rants truly hit home.
They reminded me of all of the mid-movie phone calls I’ve been forced to sit in on, the man in front of me that brought his own unopened jumbo bag of Cheetos to the theater, and the many other conversations that tend to go on right behind you. I could go on. It was the first movie I had seen in a theater since I went to see Wonder Woman. As a cinema-obsessed person, not getting to go to the movies as often as I used to has been a major challenge. Going from weekly theater visits, to once every three or four months has been rough. I stopped making time for theaters (and even at-home movie watching) because of school and work.
My experience at the theater last week when I went to see It was amazing. This was the greatest time I have ever had as part of an audience. Any talking was short, quiet whispers, so that the rest of the people weren’t disturbed, and the only times talking or raised voices occurred were when that was the proper reaction to what was going on in the film (It is a horror movie,after all), and I felt that there was a sort of unspoken camaraderie between us. We all put ourselves into this terrifying situation, so “Welcome to the Losers Club, asshole”.
I wish every movie-goers experience was like this. And I might just be thinking all this because a fellow audience member and I sang Sweet Caroline together when that cheesy Hyundai commercial was on, but I truly did have a fantastic time. Whoever reads this, let’s try and make theater experiences like this for everyone. Because in the wise words of Chris Stuckmann, “We’ve lost respect for the movie going experience, and we need to get it back.”
You can watch Chris Stuckmann’s videos here!
Thank you so much for reading my newest post on Box Office Poison! I’m pretty active on social media, and all of my links are here. Next Week: “It (2017) and the Horror Genre”.
In this post, I will be covering both Warner Bros. MonsterVerse and Universal’s Dark Universe because monsters are better than people.
It’s Halloween movie season! This is my first 31 October watches, and I’ll be posting the rest periodically this month.
The first of my scary movie watches was Trick r’ Treat, directed and written by Michael Dougherty (director of Krampus and the upcoming Godzilla: King of Monsters), and is a horror anthology with five different scary stories that take place on the same town on Halloween night.
