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Blog Posts That Mention John Carpenter
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide November 2025: “Familiar Touch,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Splitsville”
DVD/Blu-Ray
How to Be Human: A Personal Response to John Carpenter’s “Starman,” Now in 4K
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: March 2025
Video Games
Classic Horror Characters Get Arcade Treatment in Clever “RetroRealms”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2024
Features
The Future Was Now Warps Through the Seminal Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: I Saw the TV Glow, Thelma, Freaky Tales
Features
Coffee Table Books on The Wicker Man and Halloween Should Satisfy Horror Fans
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2023
TV/Streaming
John Carpenter Returns with Peacock Project That Doesn’t Deserve His Name
Video Games
Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game is a Promising Tribute to the Bloody Original
Interviews
Rite of Passage: Danny and Michael Philippou on Talk to Me
Black Writers Week
What Now: The Creative Potential in the End of the Superhero Craze
TV/Streaming
The Walking Dead: Dead City Trudges Through the Ruins of a Moribund Franchise
Features
Annihilation and the Power of Anxiety
Festivals & Awards
Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023
Features
Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2022: Slash/Back, Soft & Quiet, Nika
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, New Releases
Interviews
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Edition
MZS
The Unloved, Part 94: The Phantom of the Opera
TV/Streaming
First Four Laika Releases Get Special Edition Blu-rays
Features
Book Review: Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made Presents Fascinating Alternate History
Features
Breaking In: On the 40th Anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Thief Score
Features
Book Excerpt: Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper by Scout Tafoya
Interviews
Unearthing Skeletons: John Carpenter on Lost Themes III and Scoring Halloween
TV/Streaming
HBO Max’s The Head is Chilling Escapist TV
Tributes
Hal Holbrook: 1925-2021
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2021: Passing, Eight for Silver, Mass
TV/Streaming
Entertaining 30 Coins Examines Depths of Evil with Style
Far Flungers
Why The Thing is One of the Most Effective Horror Movies Ever Made
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2020: Come True, The Dark and the Wicked, Time of Moulting, Unearth
Tributes
Wilford Brimley: 1934-2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
Tributes
Ennio Morricone: 1928-2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2, 2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: January 9, 2020
Interviews
A Language Possessed and Reconquered: Mati Diop on Atlantics
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2019: Atlantics, Bacurau, Zombi Child
MZS
30 Minutes On: “Prometheus”
Interviews
From Blue Velvet to Top Gun: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Reagan Era
TV/Streaming
Stranger Things Returns with Phenomenally Entertaining Third Season
TV/Streaming
DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Struggles to Manage Tone Amidst Flashes of Brilliance
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival
Features
Larry Cohen: 1941-2019
Interviews
Jonathan Rosenbaum on His New Book Collection, Cinematic Encounters
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 27, 2018
Features
25 Underrated Horror Films For Halloween
Far Flungers
Once Upon a Time in Haddonfield: Revisiting John Carpenter’s Halloween
Festivals & Awards
RIFF 2018: Phoenix, Styx
Features
Great Movies Return to the Big Screen at Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 2, 2018
Festivals & Awards
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Features
Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
Festivals & Awards
Michael Kutza, Retiring Founder of Cinema/Chicago, to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Festivals & Awards
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Chaz's Journal
Celebration of Life for Mary Frances Fagan to be Held April 14th
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 15, 2018
Features
Chinese New Year: Man’s Best Friend
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018: Assassination Nation, Arizona, Never Goin’ Back, Summer of ‘84
TV/Streaming
“The Thing” That Wouldn’t Die: On the Legacy of John Carpenter’s Classic Film
Features
We Should Be So Lucky: A Tribute to Harry Dean Stanton
MZS
30 Minutes on: “It” (2017)
Features
Tobe Hooper: 1943-2017
Festivals & Awards
Pens to Lens 2017: Stop Motion, Psychological Horror and Chief Illiniwek
Features
A Lasting Bite: The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers George Romero
Features
Viva Bava, Celebrating a Master Craftsman
TV/Streaming
Syfy’s “Blood Drive” is a “Grindhouse” for the DTV Era
MZS
30 Minutes On: “The Terminator”
Chaz's Journal
Time and Mortality: “Donnie Darko” Turns 15
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2017: Midnight Madness
Features
Thumbnails 10/14/16
MZS
30 Minutes on: “The Thing” (1982)
Features
Herschell Gordon Lewis: 1929-2016
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