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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”

‘Pam & Tommy’ A Series About Sex, Lies And Videotape

Nowadays, seeing sex tapes popping up on porno sites seems almost common. I won’t name which celebrities it’s happened to, but you can do a good Google search to find out. Hulk Hogan practically took down a media company over a leaked sex tape. But it all started in the late 1990s when a videoContinue reading “‘Pam & Tommy’ A Series About Sex, Lies And Videotape”

How ‘Groundhog Day’ Became A Classic

When Groundhog Day opened in February of 1993, most films released during this time were known as a dumping ground of movies that studios were burning off to fulfill contractual obligations. Or maybe some TV actor had filmed a movie over summer hiatus and this was when it was released to take advantage of FebruaryContinue reading “How ‘Groundhog Day’ Became A Classic”

Netflix Is ‘Brazen’ To Stream A Movie Like This

I’m still thinking the pandemic and the rise of Amazon Prime and Apple TV+ is causing some major competition for Netflix, which just a few years ago, seemed to be the pinnacle of streaming services. The latest offering of original programming is Brazen, a movie that is a cross hybrid between a Lifetime thriller andContinue reading “Netflix Is ‘Brazen’ To Stream A Movie Like This”