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- Published: 06 April 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
The horror genre is going to some interesting new places of late. With the recent critical and box office success of last year’s Get Out, the acceptance of last month’s intoxicating mind trip Annihilation, and now with A Quiet Place’s rousing world premier at Austin’s SXSW ...
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- Published: 03 May 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Because Gleaming the Cube didn’t quite pay all the Slater-avenging bills! Okay, I will fess up. When I originally saw this flick, it was for Milla Jovovich dancing around in her underwear and for no other reason. I mean, I guess I thought that maybe it ...
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- Published: 17 July 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Foundations need to be shaken. Whatever happened to man’s best friend? Isle of Dogs, written and directed by Wes Anderson, has the answer and it comes into focus via stop-motion. This is Anderson’s second stop-motion feature but it might ...
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- Published: 02 May 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Canuxploitation goes for the head with director Ed Hunt’s The Brain. Maybe not for everyone, but for those audiences out there hungry from some Cronenberg-esque madness, this is a pulpy movie that delivers the goods. And now, thanks to Shout! Factory, the movie and its monster ...
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- Published: 29 March 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
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- Published: 01 May 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Giant hands and giant insects! Tarantula! has returned to prey upon us all! ...
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- Published: 13 April 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Rampage is really big. And really dumb. And, yes, really fun. The film works because NEVER EVER does it take itself seriously. How could it?! After all, this is a film whose only requirement is that it have a giant lizard (er, alligator), a giant wolf, and a giant ape pulverizing buildings into ...
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- Published: 30 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
The slums never appeared so expressive and atmospheric than they do in this flick. The 1940s absolutely come alive thanks to an eloquent expression of nightmarish entrapment that hugs the atmosphere and the crazy characters of this poverty row picture from Sylvester Stallone, who ...
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- Published: 23 February 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
We all have that one friend. That over-stimulated, under-acknowledged, hyper-competitive jerk to whom everything in life is a game with an undeniable winner and a loser. There are a whole bunch of those kind in Game Night, the latest film by 2015’s Vacation reboot ...
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- Published: 28 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Ca-Ca-Crazy lives here and, if you are anything like me and my warped sensibility, you are gonna love it ...
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- Published: 11 June 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
At least the filmmakers got the character right. Fist pumping all the way out of the theater this March, that was my big takeaway from this reboot. Finally, a Lara Croft film that felt EXACTLY like the character should. She just needed a better storyline. Maybe next time, right? ...
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- Published: 26 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
The horror of that fateful day in 1978’s I Spit on Your Grave returns thanks to writer/director Meir Zarchi, He did the first film, remember? In fact, the one and only Camille Keaton as Jennifer Hills is also back doing what she does best: getting revenge. This time, though ...
Read more: I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà vu (2019) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 25 May 2018
- Written by Christopher Symonds
By the 1980s, cinema was in well and truly in the post Star Wars world. Its monster success and permeation into the cultural zeitgeist still looms large over movies today. Like any profitable venture, those left bobbing about aimlessly in the wake of such a phenomenon try to ride that ...
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- Published: 25 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Deception! Trickery! And really bad wigs! There are two reasons why one steps foot through The Strange Door. They are two BIG reasons, mind you, being the over-the-top performances from Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, who spends a lot of time ...
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- Published: 27 May 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
In which Katniss Everdeen gets down and dirrrty...but you still won't care. From Russia with Love this spy game is not. Red Sparrow is a spy movie that should work. It has a very talented cast and the story, about a former Russian ballerina who ...
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- Published: 23 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Fun with helicopter models and CinemaScope exploits! The Land Unknown arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber Studio Classics and while it is definitely C-grade 1950s entertainment – happiest when knocking off King Kong and The Lost World – the adventure film ...
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- Published: 16 February 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Having toiled for years in the Blumhouse movie factory as both intern and paid hand, it is readily evident that many good things rubbed off on Desolation director Sam Patton, as his first feature film is a certified gem in the world of indie horror. ...
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- Published: 19 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
The blood! The guts! The wiggling limbs! I bet Artie (Bennett Liss) and Charlie (Johnny Doran), those poor souls, never expected to lose their heads and their legs when they decided to pull a prank on one of their friends one shadowy night. One gets microwaved and the ...
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- Published: 16 February 2018
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Let’s get this out of the way quickly: this reviewer is a white male from Australia in his early 40s. I have not, nor will I ever refer to another person or cast with a preface of black, Asian, jupitarian, or anything else, because to this small fry in the world, we are people. I am ...
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- Published: 19 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
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- Published: 17 May 2018
- Written by Michelle Duy
It can’t be easy to emote well under a face full of prosthetics, but Jacob Tremblay does a great job doing just that in Wonder. Based on the bestselling children’s novel by R. J. Palacio, Wonder tells the story of 10-year-old August “Auggie” Pullman. In many ways, Auggie’s like a ...
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- Published: 18 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Completely mad. Absolutely bonkers. Those are some descriptions that are often used to describe this New Age-inspired flick of voodoo hoodoo transmissions. The Manitou is EXACTLY the pile of rock and schlock trash that you want it to be and now, thanks to Scream ...
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- Published: 22 April 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Cary Grant. Irene Dunne. Together again or – if we are speaking chronologically – for the very first time as The Awful Truth, being originally released in 1937. It is, as film historians recognize, a cinematic match made in Heaven as these two talented individuals run circles around each other ...
Read more: The Awful Truth: Criterion Collection (1937) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 16 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
“Isn’t it gorgeous, babe?!” That’s the pervading sentiment in Hard Ticket to Hawaii, a bleach-blonde action flick in which hot babes do their best thinking in Jacuzzis and, after insulting a bunch of horny men, start kicking lots of ass ...
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- Published: 28 April 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Because you don’t mess with Cher. Just ask director Lasse Hallström or Frank Oz, who was first originally hired to take over the reigns from Hallström before he, too, was booted. And then there is Emily Lloyd. Poor Lloyd got dropped so suddenly (due to Cher’s whim about ...
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- Published: 16 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Clash, Killer Fist! A legend has returned. If you are not yet one with the madness that is the martial arts film, then let this release be your starting point. Why? Because from the years of 1973 to 1976, at the height of the martial arts movie and its influence of sheer insanity and nastiness ...
Read more: The Street Fighter Collection (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 19 January 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It has been a while since American military forces have deployed a good old-fashioned 19th-century horseback cavalry charge as an effective battlefield tactic. But that’s exactly what happened in the days immediately following the 9/11 tragedy as an elite U.S. Special ...
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- Published: 10 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Being the ninth and final film in Hammer’s Dracula series, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires definitely holds a special place in horror history. That’s not the limit of its legacy, though. Not by a longshot ...
Read more: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 21 April 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
The must huggable and snuggable bear is back spreading optimism as if it was marmalade itself! Paddington (voiced again by Ben Whishaw) returns in this brilliant sequel that both kids and adults will absolutely love. Paddington 2, directed again...
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- Published: 10 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
"I got my beer, I got my sex partner, what else do I need?” Blood Lake continues to exist because we all want to be like Little Tony. Fight me if you disagree. Having a camcorder doesn’t necessarily make you a horror film director. The same can be said ...
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