Though no masterpiece, director Daniel Persitz’ short family film entitled “Alex’s Halloween” is a touching and sweet slice of life about a boy with an over active imagination and his quest to get as much candy as possible on Halloween. Starring the hilarious Jane Lynch of “Glee,” she plays an over protective health obsessed mother who reduces her two sons to eating health food for dinner every night and even saves pumpkin guts for soups. Alex’s older brother Matt who openly expresses annoyance toward his little brother who is prone to dressing in costumes and concocting his very own fantastic fantasies, makes a deal with Alex. He’ll go trick or treating with him only if he can get enough candy to last them through the year to avoid eating their mother’s food.
“Don’t let them eat, Joshua. For the love of God don’t let them eat.”
While Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” from 2002 is without a doubt one of my favorite horror films of all time, one of my favorite movies of the first decade, and my favorite film from Boyle, more so I love the soundtrack that comes along with the film. The soundtrack is such an obsession of mine I have managed to sit through the entire film until the credits end to hear the music, and can fondly recall listening to the soundtrack in the waiting room of the theater before the press screening of “28 Weeks Later.” I mean they were giving critics cupcakes, water, and a bad ass press book with newspaper clippings from the sequel and the entire time all I could think was “Cool! The music from the first movie is playing overhead!”
