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A monster in fiction is a deadly creature, a threat to the hero’s life, and a threat to society. They come in various forms. One is the tall, slimy, growling Rancor in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi who wants to overpower the hero and have him for lunch. These monsters are personified…

“I’ll be seeing you”, says Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray, to a concerned environmentalist, in the 1984 original Ghostbusters. Venkman is being tongue-in-cheek. But it’s really: we’ll be seeing you Dr. Venkman. The concerned environmentalist only saw the toxic residue that comes from storing, wait for it, ghosts. But who are you going…

I don’t tolerate family feuds well. Family feuds seem to be the stock material of soap operas from Dallas to Days of Our Lives. They were never my kind of thing. Perhaps the most smoldering family feud on screen is in Ordinary People, where feelings had been buried to be expressed on another day. Ending…

If it was the end of the world, a good way to spend it is with John Goodman. The burly actor with a lot of presence seems trustworthy on screen, so if the end of the world came, it would be good to have him by your side as any or some of the characters…
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