My Favorite Movies: The Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
It is nearly impossible to see this as [...]
Horror
Nosferatu (2024)
So, yes, I spent part of my Christmas Day 2024 watching a 10th century vampire wreak havoc and disease on the people of a rising metro area of Germany circa 1836. In that, I reflected that I was thankful for the little things that I have here in the good old 21st century, you know, […]
The First Omen (2024)
Let me start by saying that I did NOT see Michael Mohan’s IMMACULATE, which came out a few weeks ago and to which my fellow critics have labeled this Omen prequel a less-than stellar carbon copy. Having not seen that film I feel that I can safely judge this movie on its own. So, with […]
Late Night With the Devil
Late Night With the Devil is about as fascinating as it is frustrating. It’s the same problem that I had with GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE but, even at its flaws, I liked this one a lot better because even with its flaws, it is wildly entertaining and features a star-making performance by David Dastmalchian. Framed as […]
Cobweb (2023)
I come to you now, dear reader with a confession. I am reviewing Sam Bodin’s new horror thriller Cobweb without having finished it. Yes, I bailed on it, probably about the point where the father started barfing and retching gallons of blood all over the kitchen table. This was not a flippant decision. I had […]
The Entire Halloween series (1978-2022) – Blecchh! I’ve see ’em all!
I have a theory that if you stare at enough bad movies, you can see infinity. I mean that’s kind of obvious. Staring at enough bad movies, you’ll find yourself wishing for eternity. This has generally been my experience when I am trapped in a theater between a movie that dares me to be entertained […]
Hypochondriac (2022)
Addison Heimann’s psychological horror drama Hypochondriac is the kind of movie that, as a critic, I find it difficult to describe in words, you watch it, you don’t explain it. That might work in terms of the movie but it does not bode well for a review. I could almost stop here and say, don’t […]
Mad God (2022)
I don’t know what to do here. I just spent an hour and twenty-three minutes beholding Phil Tippett’s Mad God, an ugly, unpleasant dystopian nightmare from which I exit the other side feeling unclean and confused. However, given it’s pedigree, particularly the fact that Tippett – The Oscar-winning special effects wizard who worked on everything […]
The Righteous (2022)
There is so much to love about actor Mark O’Brien’s directorial debut The Righteous, and so much a relief that a first-time filmmaker can engineer a mood piece this deliberately paced and this beautiful. It’s a psychological drama from Canada, spare on characters and heavy on tension, and I appreciated so much of it that […]
