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- Created: 25 January 2020
- Published: 25 January 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
With Disney’s current dominance at the box office, it is difficult to believe it, but they weren’t doing so well (theatrically) in the latter half of the 1980s. They had experienced, especially in the animation realm, a series of costly underperforming features and the sure thing that used ...
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- Created: 11 May 2020
- Published: 11 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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- Created: 18 October 2019
- Published: 18 October 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
The road trip through the zombie apocalypse continues with Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland: Double Tap, which comes some ten years after his Zombieland caught the front end of the zombie resurgence in the ‘90s and rode it into undead lore. ...
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- Created: 09 May 2020
- Published: 09 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The first horror icon of cinema has returned! Or is The Golem, thanks to its design and its use of white magic, the first cinematic superhero? I guess it comes down to your interpretation of the events in this legendary silent film. But there is NO arguing of its influence. From The Incredible Hulk ...
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- Created: 20 January 2020
- Published: 20 January 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
The last decade of the 20th Century in movies saw the pinnacle of star-powered excess-driven extravaganzas peak with Kevin Costner’s Waterworld. One of the biggest stars in the world, at the time, he could write his own ticket, dictate all terms, and will anything he wanted into existence. That ...
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- Created: 09 May 2020
- Published: 09 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The power of Jessica (Juliet Mills) compels yyyyoooooouuuu!!! Get those eyes ready for those stylized freeze frames because Jessica is eating banana skins off the sidewalk again, but this time it is in 2K! That’s right, the pea ...
Read more: Beyond the Door: Limited Edition 2K Uncut English Export Version (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 11 October 2019
- Published: 11 October 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Rarely does conventional wisdom hold in Hollywood. Particularly with regards to the notion that less is more and that simplicity is superior to elaborate embellishment. Take, for instance Jerry Bruckheimer, the titan of TNT, who subscribes to the theory that if a candle is needed ...
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- Created: 08 May 2020
- Published: 08 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
"And you thought YOU were hot?!" Getting faced by pots of boiling water never looked so good! The Wind has arrived on blu-ray thanks to a NEW 4K transfer from the original 35mm print ...
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- Created: 15 January 2020
- Published: 15 January 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
2004’s Hellboy was a well-received if unspectacular performer at the box office, and the studios were not in a hurry to spend on another one. Undeterred, Guillermo Del Toro pressed on pitching various iterations of what could be the follow up. Oh, and since he had some time to kill ...
Read more: Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 06 May 2020
- Published: 06 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
They are here. They have always been here. The McPherson Tape (also known as UFO ABDUCTION) is proof. It doesn’t take long for the skies to ignite over the night sky of Northwoods, Connecticut. The McPherson family ...
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- Created: 12 January 2020
- Published: 12 January 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Somewhere in Colts Neck, New Jersey there sets a horse farm owned by Bruce Springsteen. And on those 378 acres there is a two-story barn which, on certain nights, doubles as a performance area for Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa, and some close friends. The voices coming out from ...
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- Created: 05 May 2020
- Published: 05 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Think about the stations of the cross! Think about the stations of the cross!” With a tip of the hat to the splatterific offerings of Herschell Gordon Lewis and Freaks director Tod Browning, Multiple Maniacs takes aim at the Manson Family and at Catholicism as the tents of ...
Read more: Muliple Maniacs: Criterion Collection (1970) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 January 2020
- Published: 13 January 2020
- Written by Michelle Duy
Movies like Miracles from Heaven and Heaven Is for Real tell allegedly true stories of divine intervention. The latest such movie is 2019’s Breakthrough. About four years ago in Missouri, teenager John Smith (Marcel Ruiz) fell through the ice of a frozen lake. After 15 minutes underwater he clinically died. But when ...
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- Created: 03 May 2020
- Published: 03 May 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
"What happened to us? How did we all get here...?" With those questions, Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) watches as a coffin is slid into the orange-tinted sea. Standing next to the captain of the Corita, a tramp steamer, are priests, pirates, conquistadors, and his crew and, as the camera ...
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- Created: 04 October 2019
- Published: 04 October 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Joker was frightening proposition for this reviewer, who has been a lifelong Batman fanatic. Firstly because it presumed to make the focus of its narrative on one of the greatest antagonists in storytelling history, without the hero; secondly because it wasn’t going to stick with ...
