Last month, Dark Castle Entertainment announced that a series is in the planning stages for the 2001 movie THIR13EN Ghosts, or Thirteen Ghosts and 13 Ghosts, as it’s also known. The movie was a remake of the 1960 William Castle orgin, speerheaded by the production company that was formed by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis andContinue reading “‘THIR13EN Ghosts’ Deserves A 2nd Look”
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‘Se7en’ Is A Commentary On Human Cruelty, Apathy And Vengeance
A movie like Se7en, or just Seven as it’s sometimes shown, is quite possibly one of the most profound, unusually disturbing but provocative movies Hollywood has churned out in his history. The fact that it contains a rising heartthrob like Brad Pitt alongside a revered actor like Morgan Freeman and is so dark and unsettlingContinue reading “‘Se7en’ Is A Commentary On Human Cruelty, Apathy And Vengeance”
‘Ghost Ship’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches
Ghost Ship is one of those movies you’d find yourself staying up late to watch in the early 2000s because you had some bad indigestion from supper or you slept too late on a weekend morning and worried about the week ahead at work. It’s starts off wonderful with a B-movie horror style and thenContinue reading “‘Ghost Ship’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches”
‘American Dream’ A Nightmare Of Corporate Greed, Labor Union Mistakes
The tagline on one of the movie posters of American Dream is “The film that corporate America doesn’t want you to see.” I think that’s comical. Because after sitting through the roughly 100 minutes of this documentary, you will probably also conclude that labor unions don’t want you to see it either. That might explainContinue reading “‘American Dream’ A Nightmare Of Corporate Greed, Labor Union Mistakes”
‘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”
‘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”
The Strange Case Of ‘The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen’
A movie like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen could have been the best movie of the year or the 2000s. It looked like a whole bunch of fun as a concept. Based on the graphic novels by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, it mainly was about public domain characters like Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr.Continue reading “The Strange Case Of ‘The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen’”
‘Tales From The Hood’ A Maddening Mixture Of Mischief And Macabre
A movie like Tales from the Hood is mostly a horror flick. But just like Alfred Hitchcock, director Rusty Cundieff throws in enough humor and mischief along with the macabre to remind us that it’s still a movie and we need to relax. The movie poster features a skull wearing sunglasses and a gold tooth.Continue reading “‘Tales From The Hood’ A Maddening Mixture Of Mischief And Macabre”
‘Body Bags’ Still Knocks ‘Em Dead
HBO and Showtime have always had a Coca-Cola/Pepsi or Nintendo/Sega rivalry. Even now with the “Streaming Wars” in full swing, Showtime, which is now owned by Paramount Media Networks, was struggling about 30 years ago to rise up to HBO. I still remember when the network would air soft-core porn from Europe on late nightContinue reading “‘Body Bags’ Still Knocks ‘Em Dead”
‘All Of Me’ Is The Great Steve Martin/Carl Reiner Comedy Masterpiece
Steven Martin recently turned 78 and has been working almost non-stop for decades and with the hit TV show Only Murders in the Building has talked of slowing down. If there’s someone who’s deserving of some time for himself, it’s Martin. Since he was in his early 20s, he’s been writing on TV shows, winningContinue reading “‘All Of Me’ Is The Great Steve Martin/Carl Reiner Comedy Masterpiece”
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