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Thursday, June 21
1408
Holiday Inn Hell
(which shouldn't be confused with
Billie Holiday Inn The Year 2000)
Trailer
When it comes to Stephen King and hotels, we've already seen the bestest, so everything else throbviously is and will be juss the restest. Sure, SK wasn't a big fan of Kubrick's take of his Shining, but I dare anyone else to admit that the TV version starring that dude from Wings and Rebecca DeMakesMeHorn-nay, which follows the book munch closer, is mother or lake superior to Kube's! And don't make me double dare you, cause I'll force you to take the physical challenge like my name was Mark Summers! Hell, even the Simpsons' take on the Overlook Hotel was better than that crud! Hotels aside, tis been ages since there was a decent flick adapted from a Stephen King anything... and by ages, I mean 2001, when Hearts In Atlantis was dropped on a world hungry for anything Anton Yelchin. Well, much to my sirprize and delight, 1408, which coulda also be titled John Cusack vs a Hotel Room, resets the ages mark to 2007. It's a classic average Stephen King flick, in the same vein as Dolores Claiborne, The Dark Half, and Children of the Corn (that's #CotC I, not III with Charlize Theron or IV with Naomi Watts). None of dem a3mentioned films are extremely spectacular, but would still be james worthy of a watch if it popped up on TBS one lonely night at home. You could wait a few years until this pops up on cable TV, but you should feel free to see 1408 in theaters if Evan Almighty isn't eggzactly whetting yer fappetite
Not To Be Overlooked: wanna stay at the Overlook Hotel featured in Kube's versh of The Shining? Well, you'd be aMAZEd to find out that mos of it was a set created at Elstree Studios in England. Howevs, the exterior is in fact that of the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and the interiors were recreated to match that of Yosemite's Ahwanee Hotel in California. By the gay, the haunted room in The Shining book was 217, but for the flick, it was changed to the fictional 237, so not to scare any guests at the Timberline
Fanning Over The Next Dakota: while we eagerly await all future projects of Invasion wunderkind Ariel Gade, keep and eye and a thigh on the adorable child actress Jasmine Jessica Anthony, who could easily pass as another daughter of Ari Gold
Netflux: it's not the greatest thang since a sliced can of Slice, but Cusack and Co's motel thriller Identity [trailer] is kinda darn thrillin!
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Jeepers Worth A Peepers
until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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