I’m going to cut to the chase, forgive the pun, but the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre entry, intended as a direct sequel to the 1974 original is a total piece of dog shit. As a matter of fact, comparing this movie to dog shit is an insult. I will say this, for a movie that’sContinue reading “‘Texas Chainsaw’ Massacres Franchise’s Exploited Legacy”
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‘Kimi’ A Hitchcockian Thriller For The Digital Media Age
Steven Soderbergh’s Kimi is a movie that spends half of its run time in the apartment of its protagonist Angela Childs (Zoe Kravitz). One might easily draw parallels with Alfred Hitchcock’s famous Rear Window, in which Jimmy Stewart was an injured photographer stuck in his own apartment. I’m sure that’s what Soderbergh and writer DavidContinue reading “‘Kimi’ A Hitchcockian Thriller For The Digital Media Age”
Olympics Figure Skating Scandal Reinforces Pressures We Place On Youth
For what it’s worth, the women’s free skating competition at the Olympics was a no-win situation. The scandal and controversy all week is that Kamila Valieva, who is only 15, had tested positive in December for the banned drug trimetazidine. But here is the issue? Did she knowingly take it or was it given toContinue reading “Olympics Figure Skating Scandal Reinforces Pressures We Place On Youth”
‘Boba Fett’ Series Takes Star Wars Franchise In A Better Direction
Why in the blue fuck do people who call themselves Star Wars fans hate everything else about the franchise other than the original trilogy? It seems for the past 20 years of so, fans have gone to extreme lengths to voice their distaste for the franchise. Not even Star Trek fans have this intolerable hatredContinue reading “‘Boba Fett’ Series Takes Star Wars Franchise In A Better Direction”
Super Bowl Halftime Shows Generational/Cultural Gaps Still Wider Than Ever
It’s hard to believe for some people, but Dr. Dre’s seminal album The Chronic turns 30 this year. It was one of the first CDs I bought through Columbia House or BMG. And there was nothing that sounded like it before and nothing that has sounded like it since. Dre had risen to fame throughContinue reading “Super Bowl Halftime Shows Generational/Cultural Gaps Still Wider Than Ever”
Ivan Reitman Revolutionized Irreverent Comedies
It’s an odd coincidence the same day Ivan Reitman passes away, a Super Bowl commercial airs starring Eugene Levy as an action star. Levy had appeared in Cannibal Girls, a horror comedy that was Reitman’s first movie as a director. Born in Czechoslovakia in the post-WWII era the son of Jewish Hungarians, his mother hadContinue reading “Ivan Reitman Revolutionized Irreverent Comedies”
‘Antlers’ Pokes Through Some Creature Feature/Body Horror Stalemate
When it comes to horror movies, creature features and body horror always seem to be less popular than supernatural or psychological horror. Antlers, released in 2021, after almost a year of sitting on the shelf due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Scott Cooper directs and co-writes a screenplay based on the short story “The Quiet Boy”Continue reading “‘Antlers’ Pokes Through Some Creature Feature/Body Horror Stalemate”
‘Werewolves Within’ Gives Little To Howl About
Werewolves Within wants so badly to be the dark comedic horror flicks that Sam Raimi and especially Edgar Wright made bank on, but I found myself actually rooting for the mostly absent werewolf halfway through. This movie seems like a demo of a far better movie that needed a lot more work and a littleContinue reading “‘Werewolves Within’ Gives Little To Howl About”
Have The Oscars Jumped The Shark?
This past week, the Academy Award nominations were announced and people are probably scratching their heads. Don’t Look Up was nominated for Best Picture, making it possibly one of the worst, if not worst reviewed, movie to be nominated. And people though The Towering Inferno was not worthy. The problem is simple. The Oscars areContinue reading “Have The Oscars Jumped The Shark?”
‘The Woman In The House’ Netflix Parody Series Too Drunk On His Smarminess
Back in 2015, Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig appeared in A Deadly Adoption, a tongue-in-cheek black comedy for Lifetime parodying Lifetime movies. It seemed almost to follow the same plotline of the Lifetime movies it reminded me of the saying that Stanley Kubrick said he was going to direct a porno flick back in theContinue reading “‘The Woman In The House’ Netflix Parody Series Too Drunk On His Smarminess”
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