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‘Fire In The Sky’ Fizzles Out Long Before Frightening Finale

With news this week that NASA officials believe that UFO sightings aren’t credible but they do entertain the possibility of extraterrestrial life, it is no better time to review the 1993 sci-fi/horror/mystery Fire in the Sky. It’s a muddled movie that seems like a glorified TV movie that never does really achieve what it should’ve.Continue reading “‘Fire In The Sky’ Fizzles Out Long Before Frightening Finale”

Please Donate If You Can To A Good Charity

Today is my birthday. The month of September is also the birthday month of my mother and my late girlfriend. Before she passed away, my girlfriend was on the Board of Directors of Wheels of Happiness, a non-profit charity that helps people with physical disabilities and helps with mobile equipment such as wheelchairs and motorizedContinue reading “Please Donate If You Can To A Good Charity”

‘Moving On’ Presents A Good Showcase For Legendary Actresses

One of the first movies I remember watch was 9 to 5 released in 1980 featuring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. I remember mostly the scene where Tomlin’s character thinks she has poisoned her boss played by Dabney Coleman and tries to sneak what she thinks is his body out of a hospital. The absurdityContinue reading “‘Moving On’ Presents A Good Showcase For Legendary Actresses”

‘The X-Files’ Celebrates 30 Years As The True Revenge Of The Nerds

When The X-Files premiered on Friday, Sept. 10, 1993, there was already talk the show would be quickly canceled. Sci-fi/horror shows didn’t last too long on the boob tube. In the 1980s, shows like Misfits of Science (featuring a young Courtney Cox), Automan (which seemed to resemble Tron) and Manimal (in which Simon McCorkindale playedContinue reading “‘The X-Files’ Celebrates 30 Years As The True Revenge Of The Nerds”

You’re Disrespecting 9/11 Victims By Continuing To Support Trump

I’ve often said that if Al Gore had been president, 9/11 or something like it would’ve still happened. It may not have happened on this day. It would’ve been March 23 or Nov. 17. And they may not have struck in New York City or The Pentagon. But a phantom menace was brewing in theContinue reading “You’re Disrespecting 9/11 Victims By Continuing To Support Trump”

‘True Romance’ Still So Cool At 30

Flashback to the fall movie season of 1993 and no one was anticipating True Romance to be a huge movie. And that’s why it was a box-office failure, because no one was expecting it to be a huge movie. Yet, its success and legacy lives on over the years. Its casting is one for theContinue reading “‘True Romance’ Still So Cool At 30”

What’s In A Review Anyway?

There’s a story that when they were putting together the segments of what would become Amazon Women on the Moon, producer Robert K. Weiss tried in vain to release the movie under the title “The Greatest Movie Ever.” The gag, he said was they could use the title in any reviews by famous credits toContinue reading “What’s In A Review Anyway?”

‘Club Dread’ Offers No Frills, Some Thrills But Lacks Cool Chills

When Super Troopers opened in the middle of February of 2002, America was still reeling from the aftermath of 9/11 and the impending threat of a war was looming. No one had anticipated that an obscure comedy troupe that had formed at Colgate University in the late 1980s was going to give us the laughsContinue reading “‘Club Dread’ Offers No Frills, Some Thrills But Lacks Cool Chills”

‘Hypnotic’ Feels Like A Hybrid Of Better Sci-Fi Existential Thrillers

From the start of Hypnotic, something just feels off. Why in the sam hill are Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck in a movie that seems like a typical police procedural? And then it’s revealed that the story is really about those who have powers to put people under hypnosis to make them do things suchContinue reading “‘Hypnotic’ Feels Like A Hybrid Of Better Sci-Fi Existential Thrillers”