Clamzilla's Adventures in the Dark

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The free associative ramblings of a middle-aged film buff who has spent her entire life in the dark (figuratively and literally). Reflections on new releases contain satire, cynical humor, celebrity gossip, and an occasional peanut by-product or two!

Latest Blog Posts

  • 2012 on Nov 17, 2009 in 2012

    There are a lot of great things to be said about going to prison. Oh, I know nobody wants to go to prison, but if you end up there you can learn some handy survival tips that will make life all the easier when the world comes to an end in20...

  • Box (The) on Nov 10, 2009 in

    I’m surprised there aren’t more people interested in seeing Cameron Diaz’s box. The national weekend grosses for her latest movie, The Box, shows that it earned only sixth place in the Top Ten movies at the box office and brought in an anemic $...

  • Fourth Kind (The) on Nov 5, 2009 in

    There’s a movie out about alien abductions called The Fourth Kind, as in one more than those Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I know a lot about this subject, having been abducted myself back when I was about nineteen. Okay, so the ali...

  • Michael Jackson ~ This is It on Oct 30, 2009 in

    These days it isn’t that hard to grab yourself a fan base. Heck, even Spencer Pratt and his Will o’ the Wisp flesh-colored beard have people who worship him, and that is not so far from adoring a hemorrhoid with a transparent merkin on his chin.

  • Paranormal Activity on Oct 29, 2009 in Paranormal Activity

    Last weekend my perfect husband and I went to the Essex Cinemas to see Paranormal Activity. Dale Chapman, the always genial manager of the theater, told us that people were coming out of the movie completely freaked out, scared senseless by this supp...

  • Law Abiding Citizen on Oct 23, 2009 in Law Abiding Citizen

    I have a friend we’ll call “Gale” to protect her anonymity because her story is one of raw lust, not meant for mixed company or to be shared at dinner parties.  “Gale” is a fifty year old woman with a teenager’s crush on Scottish act...

  • Where the Wild Things Are on Oct 18, 2009 in Where the Wild Things Are

    Contrary to what you may think, Where the Wild Things Are is not a documentary about the goings-on in my boudoir. Nor is it an expose of what you are going to find in Khloe Kardasian’s lingerie hamper, though there are critters in the movie Where t...