THE MUMMY(1932) review The Mummy gets a bad (w)rap. Ha, ha. Puns! He’s not as sexy as Dracula, or as popular as Frankenstein’s Monster. He’s kind of the guy who’s just sort of there. I’m [...]

FRANKLYN review I’m not sure how the hell you box something like FRANKLYN into a genre label. The back of the Blu-Ray throws it into “science fiction”, but that’s a big misnomer. It’s wandering somewhere [...]

LAST SHIFT (2015) review LAST SHIFT is an impressive, well-acted, well-directed picture that would do John Carpenter proud. It packs a lot into its narrative: a rookie on her first shift, a defunct police station, [...]

FURY (2014) mini-review So FURY. Big, big thumbs up. I was kind of apprehensive at first to sit through it (the first trailer was cool, but subsequent ads didn't really hit the spot). But holy [...]

NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) review At times, Night of the Hunter has an uneven tone to it, but I’ll be damned if the movie isn’t genius despite it. The theme weighs heavy on the [...]

MYSTICS OF BALI and THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY (1981) review I guess I should've watched a double bill of The Omen and Poltergeist. But no, I decided to broaden my horizons and go with [...]

POLTERGEIST (2015) review Many years ago, I heard a rumor that Piano-Man/Darth-Vader from-Return-of-the-Jedi-being-unmasked impersonator Billy Joel was caught having a tryst with a very young woman. This was not surprising, as Joel’s loyalty to marriage [...]

NOMADS (1986) review There's a hypnotic lull in the frames of NOMADS. It begins with a cacophony of city noises that transforms into a tribal beat before settling on a weird mid-80s rock score. It [...]

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