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The Horror of Knowing
The Innkeepers is part classic horror film, part workplace comedy, and part deliberate study of both place and character—which, when taken together, makes the movie a hard sell to a lot of people. And that’s a shame, since I think the movie occupies a unique spot in the cinematic world. Unlike a lot of modern horror films, The Innkeepers invites the audience to be patient and pay attention—good suggestions ...
The New Gatekeeper: You
Saying Kickstarter has taken off over the past few years is an understatement. The crowd-funding platform has raised over $230 million for projects in the past four years, with some of the more popular campaigns drawing in thousands of supporters. The most popular project categories seem like a given — it’s easy to get lost in all of the new “fund my indie film/band/short story collection!” type proj...
Winter Albums: Sounds for the Season
IAM, the publisher of The Curator, is a movement upheld and supported by those who are a part of it. Make a donation and help us continue to serve artists and creative catalysts all over the world. As much as I enjoy all of the seasons, I’m glad to see the last flickers of autumnal warmth snuffed out by the cold. I enjoy watching trees shake themselves free of leaves. I like watching my breath roll away as I w...
Here's Where Superchunk Comes In
Image via Wikipedia In early June, Superchunk announced that their forthcoming album, Majesty Shredding, will be released in September. It's their ninth studio album and first full-length release of new material since 2001. Nice. But . . . who? The Chapel Hill-based band has been making music for over 20 years, but are on the musical fringe in a lot of ways, despite their football field-long resumes. Their...
Someone's Got To Do It
It's taken me a while, but I think I figured out why no one wants to play video games with me. I've gathered some evidence, too. Exhibit one: Left 4 Dead 2 Four survivors try to make it from Savannah to New Orleans, traveling through entire regions infested with zombies ("infected," in game terminology). This is a first-person game, so players see things from the point of view of the characters and have to work...
An Open Letter on Adaptations
Okay, look - you've told me a few times that the book is better than the movie. Did you know that I read the book, too? Honestly, I also like it better than the movie. I guess the folks that adapted it for the screen really left out a lot. Two of my favorite subplots, for instance. Yeah, the one with the unsigned letters? That was so scary in the book. Oh, and the scriptwriters added a bunch of stuff that wasn't i...
