ANNABELLE review Annabelle isn’t a bad movie. It’s nicely shot and executed with the standard look of your typical modern horror film. It’s only crime really is that it’s just kind of there, hovering between [...]

BEST AND WORST REMAKES: WORST #7 - PLANET OF THE APES When you think of auteur directors, you think of a particular style, a particular world view and a certain feel that stands out in [...]

BEST AND WORST REMAKES: BEST #7 - THE DEPARTED I’ve never been in a fist fight in my life. To do so at my age would be tempting fate to an early grave and my [...]

TUSK review There was a time I enjoyed Kevin Smith. Then ‘enjoyed’ morphed into ‘tolerated’, ‘tolerated’ to ‘dismissed’ and now ‘dismissed’ has turned into ‘loathed’. You would think that at this point (and with so [...]

THE BLOB (1959) review I’ve seen Chuck Russell's ‘80s remake of The Blob several times (a film that has so much great going for it: a cast that’s ridiculously good, government conspiracy, disgusting but beautiful [...]

BEST AND WORST REMAKES: WORST #8 - THE HAUNTING I can’t think of any other film that is so consciously opposed in tone and style to its predecessor than the Haunting 1999 is to the [...]

BEST AND WORST REMAKES: BEST #8 - THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Much like RoboCop, the Manchurian Candidate is about dark forces turning people into soulless machines, only to have the annoyance of humanity and free will [...]

The best thing the filmmakers of JOHN WICK CHAPTER TWO did was in one of its opening images. Over a mind-numbingly loud street-race, we see a projection on the side of a building. It’s of [...]

BEST AND WORST REMAKES: #9 - INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS There’s a moment when Donald Sutherland’s car window gets smashed by an irate restaurant employee. Sutherland, who plays a food inspector, happens upon some [...]

BEST AND WORST REMAKES: WORST #9 - DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS I once had an L5/S1 spinal protrusion for a year and a half. In layman’s terms, it was a teeny-tiny piece of bone dry-humping a [...]