PERFECT BLUE I have a confession to make. I hate anime. Never cared for it. I saw AKIRA in the theater back when it came to Western shores in the early ‘90s and shrugged my [...]

DRAG ME TO HELL This is the second time I’ve watched DRAG ME TO HELL for my Halloween Movie Marathon. I suspect that’s the case for a lot of the movies on any of our [...]

THE CELL Tarsem Singh should have had a bigger career. As most directors did in the ‘90s, he cut his teeth in music videos (if you saw R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”, you know his work [...]

THE LOST BOYS When movies are the closest things to a religion you have, certain ones become ingrained in your DNA to the point where you can rewatch their entire runtime in your mind’s eye. [...]

INVADERS FROM MARS (1986) *Tonight’s guest interview/review is with Jason and Fable Zimmermann (ages 11 and 8, respectively). What was the movie we watched tonight? Invaders from Mars. Fable, describe the movie: It’s about a kid with [...]

THE LOST BOYS When movies are the closest things to a religion you have, certain ones become ingrained in your DNA, to the point where you can rewatch their entire runtime in your mind’s eye. [...]

THE EVIL WITHIN Some films are destined to be more than the sum of their parts: the story behind them proves more fascinating than the actual movie itself. Such is the case with The Evil [...]

LEATHERFACE Sigh. Someone said it was good. I swear to god, they said it was a worthy prequel to Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I’m here to declare it’s not. Not by a [...]

CHILD'S PLAY (2019) & BLACK SWAN Nothing (and I mean nothing) in the marketing of the Child's Play remake wanted me to actually spend money to watch it. I mean, come on, if you can’t [...]

The long and short of it? It's a hollow exercise. I really, really loved that novel — and I’m savvy enough to know films can’t be the novels. It’s futile and foolish to think they [...]