I had the privilege of meeting with Errol Morris back in the late ’90s.  He came to Mary Washington College to speak at an engagement that Professor Gardner Campbell had arranged.  I was in Professor Campbell’s film theory class at the time, and we had viewed a number of Morris’s films.1  At the time, Morris [...]

A quick round-up of Halloween-related pop-culture worthy of attention …
I recently finished reading Nicholas Rogers’ Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night–a slim, well-written text that still manages to cover a wide range of topics and provide tons of interesting facts and figures. For example, Halloween is actively celebrated by 65% of adults who spend [...]