Socially Distant, self isolated and sheltered in place.
I heard somewhere that Dracula is the most adapted screenplay of all time, a claim I’ll leave unchallenged because fact checking it intimidates me (Who has the time to watch … Continue Reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) October 14th, 2023
Murders in the Rue Morgue is exactly the kind of movie I’ve been missing. Bella Lugosi, as the mad Dr. Mirakle, kidnaps Parisian women in 19th-century France and subjects them … Continue Reading Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) October 11th, 2023
I enjoy comparing the big three slasher franchises each October, even if that increases the likelihood of seeing a terrible movie (click the hyperlink to read my A Nightmare on … Continue Reading Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Meyers (1988) October 9th, 2023
At its worst our annual horrorthon is discouraging and exhausting. Subjecting ourselves to a high chance of stinkers and a low chance of great movies takes its toll. For every … Continue Reading Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) October 8th, 2023
The Criterion Channel went all out this October featuring four distinct horror collections; High School Horror, Art-House Horror, Pre-Code Horror, and ’90s Horror. This brutal buffet is packed with pantry … Continue Reading Dust Devil (1992) October 7th, 2023
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master picks up where A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors left off, by quickly killing off the survivors and nullifying … Continue Reading A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) October 2nd, 2023
I expected a movie with a title like The Cars That Ate Paris to be equal parts Christine and Godzilla. Instead, Peter Weir’s small-town Austrailian horror film is more like … Continue Reading The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) October 1st, 2023
Watching old silent films is always a crap shoot. You can bet any movie that’s sustained positive word-of-mouth for a century possesses some measure of quality, but how does it … Continue Reading Sunrise (1927) September 30th, 2023
I have a large to-watch list but within that list are a small number of movies with one shared commonality: people can’t believe I haven’t seen them. Films like Psycho, … Continue Reading The Karate Kid (1984) September 9th, 2023
Over a decade after Jackass 3D’s release, Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine reunite with most of their original crew (and a handful of new idiots) to relive their glory days … Continue Reading Jackass Forever (2022) September 5th, 2023
In The Lost World, a motley crew of British explorers, journalists, and an orphan venture to the jungles of South America in search of evidence of a hidden prehistoric land untouched … Continue Reading The Lost World (1925) August 27th, 2023
In Biosphere, starring Mark Duplass as Billy and Sterling K. Brown as Ray, two childhood best friends struggle to survive the aftermath of an extinction-level event in a biodome. Billy … Continue Reading Biosphere (2022) August 26th, 2023
The world seems to have rejected one of the last remnants of the Snyderverse and officially deemed The Flash a box office bomb. With a 200-220 million USD budget, the … Continue Reading The Flash (2023) June 27, 2023
I don’t know exactly how this happened, but somewhere in the hustle and bustle of moving last year I lost track of myself and never wrote a review for Doctor … Continue Reading Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) May 8th, 2022
The Tale of Zatoichi begins as a story of two rival yakuza clans. One hires an ailing ronin as their protector and the other hires the famous blind swordsman Zatoichi … Continue Reading The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) June 25th, 2023
With Asteroid City Wes Anderson reacquaints himself with the concept of measured pacing since 2022’s The French Dispatch, which I viewed as an exercise in how much a Director can … Continue Reading Asteroid City (2023) July 24th, 2023
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