Some people need a movie to have a multimillion-dollar budget and big-name stars in order for them to enjoy it. And I get that. I dig going down to the megaplex for the latest studio flick as much as the next guy.
Read MoreRace for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024)
After watching Gran Turismo recently, I was in the mood for another good car movie. Unfortunately, Race for Glory wasn't it. While it has solid racing moments, the film is bogged down with mediocre performances and a bloated narrative.
Read MoreHellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) #RetroReview
Tony Randel’s Hellbound: Hellraiser II from 1988 celebrates its 35th birthday on December 23rd. Though it doesn’t quite reach the heights of Clive Barker’s original, it is easily the best of all the sequels. Won’t you join me for a look back?
Read MoreNo One Will Save You (2023)
Aliens have been in our movies ever since Georges Méliès’s 1902 silent epic “A Trip to the Moon.” Since then, we’ve been gifted 1951’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” 1953’s “War of the Worlds,” 1956’s “Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers,” and that’s just the ‘50s. Mankind has been fascinated with extraterrestrial life for centuries, but these last two centuries really kicked off the ET craze.
Read MoreSkinamarink (2022)
Cambridge Dictionary defines a “fever dream” as “A very strange experience or situation, usually a bad one, that seems like a dream rather than like something that would really happen.” On dreams in general, Merriam-Webster defines a dream quite accurately for this film in one word: “A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep.” There’s that word, “images.”
Read MoreThe Thing (1982) #RetroReview
Spielberg’s “E.T.,” Hooper’s “Poltergeist,” and Scott’s “Blade Runner;” it was one of the best years of 1980s science fiction and horror. There was, however at the time, a sleeper hit: a “barf-bag movie,” Roger Ebert said, that split audiences in two just like David Clennon’s character Palmer’s face split, just in time to devour Thomas G. Waites’s Windows. It’s ironic, really.
Read MoreChristine (1983) #RetroReview
John Carpenter is my favorite director. While I wouldn’t place his adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine from 1983 among his masterpieces, I still think it’s very good. Being that it’s celebrating its 40th anniversary on December 9th, I decided to take a look back.
Read MoreGodzilla Minus One (2023)
There are essentially two types of Godzilla films. The first depicts the iconic King of the Monsters as a nigh unstoppable force of nature leaving a swath of destruction in its wake. The entries featuring this approach are generally darker and are relatively thematically complex.
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