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- Created: 13 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Because the nonsensical matters! That’s why Voyage into Space exists! Seriously, though, you don’t get Iron Giant without a stop alongside Voyage into Space, about a boy who controls an IRON GIANT (yeah, I went there!) with his wristwatch! ...
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- Created: 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: 10 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Calling all vets! There is a heartwarming calm at the center of All Creatures Great & Small, a family drama that is more about optimism than anything else. It is a calm that is hard to explain in these trying times yet it exists and flourishes with each and every episode as lush, rolling...
Read more: Masterpiece: All Creatures Great & Small (2020) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 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: 06 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Watch. Her entire body is going to get zombiefied . . . including her anus.” A weird sentence to come out of the mouth of my wife as she sits next to me watching Sky Sharks, a German produced but English-friendly splatter and trashfest with tons of gratuitous nudity, but there it was, a nude ...
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- Created: 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: 06 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Ho-Ho-Holy shit! Santa smokes! He carries a flask with him! He cusses like mothertruckin’ sailor, too! And, when the shit hits the fan, he jumps into action in a snowy shootout with a hitman that a child has hired to kill the jolliest man alive. This is the wild territory of Fatman. ...
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- Created: 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: 07 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Death by carpenter’s gun! Paddling in the boiling room! Hot water scalding! Sorority girls get their comeuppance when a paranoid killer is accidentally released from a small asylum which is apparently also run by a lunatic in Silent Madness. Time to get your 3D groove back on when you pop ...
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- Created: 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: 31 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Recharged! Rebooted! And reunited with the children of the world! Gamera, after a fifteen year hiatus returns thanks to the films which make up Gamera: The Heisei Era. All FOUR films in this set from Arrow Video make for a hell of a good time with solid special effects and a ...
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- Created: 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: 27 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Friend of All Children has arrived! Otherwise known as the Guardian of the Universe, Gamera is what happens when you imagine a turtle flying alongside your plane on a hot summer day. Debuting as an aggressive bipedal monster capable of flying the not so friendly skies, this massive turtle calmed ...
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- Created: 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 ...
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- Created: 26 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Do not fear, Max Cloud is here! Side-scrolling gamers and Scott Adkins (Ip Man 4: The Finale, Doctor Strange, Accident Man, and The Expendables 2) fans might be interested in checking out The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud, but EVERYONE should be warned that ...
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- Created: 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: 23 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Wayne! Coffee break!” Everything about Giant from the Unknown leads me to believe that it might be one of the films that influenced David Lynch to do what he does with film. You've got buckets of hot coffee, a lizard in a rock, hallowed out lodges, crazy creatures walking out from thick ...
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- Created: 13 January 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Tenacious is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Sylvester Stallone. He was once one of the highest-paid and most successful actors in cinema’s history, and, like most, has had his fair share of career highlights and—lets be kind—lulls. ...
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- Created: 19 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Craving a howling good time at home? The Wolf of Snow Hollow, with its offbeat humor and characters, is your meal ticket for small town terror . . . you just have to be willing to follow the breadcrumbs ...
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- Created: 05 September 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
When Stephen King’s doorstop novel was adapted for TV in the 90’s, it accomplished what shouldn’t have been possible. King’s novel is a behemoth tome, with dozens of characters, and was one of his truly graphic forays into the horror genre for ...
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- Created: 16 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s time to unfocus your eyes! Forgive. Forget. And deal a mighty ass-whooping out to all those who would seek to do you harm! Blind Fury is back, baby! ...
Read more: Blind Fury: Retro VHS Packaging (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 December 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
There are touchstone pictures that transcend any generation, no matter when they were born, that fall under the MUST WATCH category. They are masterpieces. Films like Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre, (I know! Bogart nut) it doesn’t matter. If you are a film aficionado, a general viewer, a ...
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- Created: 18 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
When worms attack! Welcome back to Perfection, Nevada! There’s not a lot to do or see here in the desert sands. But none of it prevents the few who do live here from being super paranoid. There is something out there in the swirling sands and acrid heat. Which is why ...
Read more: Tremors: Limited Edition 4K Restoration (1990) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 September 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Polish the silver, set out the good china, and put a kettle on. The Crawleys are back! Fans of the popular PBS television series that aired for six seasons can once again spend a little time at the sprawling English countryside estate as the film version of Downton Abbey finally hits theaters. And even ...
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- Created: 12 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
My daddy was a bank robber! I’ve said it before and I will continue to say it again and again and again: Liam Neeson is "The January Man". Ever since the success of Taken, he’s been in just about every January-released action flick that you can imagine becoming cinema's own Winter ...
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- Created: 18 December 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
The Bourne series is currently five films in (as of the writing of this article) and had definitively made its mark in the action/spy genre. In a perfect storm of confluences, it hit its mark with an audience desperate to break with convention and be given something unseen in the ...
Read more: Bourne: The Ultimate Collection - 4K Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 30 December 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 ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: The Golden Child (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 21 August 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Monster movies aren’t what they used to be. With the fear of nuclear war mostly behind us and the terror of invading aliens having run its course, filmmakers have had to come up with a new kind of monster to scare the pants off movie goers. And what is more menacing, unpredictable, and ...
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- Created: 07 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy-looking horror film. Know that first. Panic, also known as Bakterion) is also quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...
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- Created: 02 December 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Misery is just about this reviewer’s favorite Stephen King adaptation. Its director, Rob Reiner, was the only one entrusted with that adaptation because the author knew the director would adapt it well. The reason that King knew he would adapt it well ...
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