Ticket Stubs

Giving up the Ghostface

Ticket Stubs #18: Scream one… two… three-four-five-six… SEVEN? There are seven of these now?

Mar 13 • Stephen Daisley

St. Valentine’s Day massacres

Ticket Stubs #17: Four horror movies that almost redeem the worst holiday ever.

Feb 13 • Stephen Daisley

Over there, over here

Ticket Stubs #16: Three groundbreaking but largely forgotten films about the Holocaust.

Jan 27 • Stephen Daisley

Full Metal Racket

Ticket Stubs #15: Timothée Chalamet serves up ace after ace in “Marty Supreme”.

Jan 11 • Stephen Daisley

Angels with Flirty Faces

Ticket Stubs #14: Heavenly helper Cary Grant falls for a cleric’s spouse in The Bishop’s Wife.

Dec 24, 2025 • Stephen Daisley

Fantastic Priests and Where to Find Them

Ticket Stubs #13: The Scarlet and the Black (1983), True Confessions (1981), Father Stu (2022), and The Cardinal (1963).

Dec 11, 2025 • Stephen Daisley

Boogeyman nights

Ticket Stubs #12: Fearing the reaper in John Carpenter’s “Halloween” and fearing him somewhat less in “Halloween II”.

Oct 31, 2025 • Stephen Daisley

Everything You Always Wanted to Say About Woody Allen* (*But Were Afraid to Admit)

Ticket Stubs #11: Remembering Diane Keaton in her roles in “Annie Hall” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”.

Oct 24, 2025 • Stephen Daisley

Amazon marketplace

Ticket Stubs #10: Jeff Bezos fights the “War of the Worlds”, Mark Wahlberg can’t get “Flight Risk” off the ground, Nicolas Cage is devilishly creepy in…

Sep 14, 2025 • Stephen Daisley

Hiroshima, non amour

Ticket Stubs #9: Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is back in the news, which reminded me that I didn’t like it, which in turn reminded me that I didn’t…

Jul 13, 2025 • Stephen Daisley

The defence jests

Ticket Stubs #8: In which Marisa Tomei is the greatest expert witness in US legal history.

Feb 16, 2024 • Stephen Daisley

A dish best served old

Ticket Stubs #7: The Equalizer 3, starring Denzel Washington, is not your run-of-the-mill revenge thriller.

Dec 28, 2023 • Stephen Daisley

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