Category Archives: Movie Flashback

If you have access to Amazon Prime or at least Tubi, you should check out The VelociPastor, a low-budget action comedy horror that needs to be seen. Edward D. Wood Jr. would’ve made a movie like this back in the day. The movie starts out within the first few minutes of showing how cheap itContinue reading “‘The VelociPastor’ Is The Movie We Need Right Now”

Okay, I’m going to be brutally honest and frank, the 2016 Ghostbusters was awful. But not for the reason that it changed them to all women. The fact that they even tried to reboot it at all was a huge mistake. There’s some things you just don’t mess with. I was on board and willingContinue reading “‘Ghostbusters’ Franchise Still Has Life In It Which Is Both Good And Bad”

Lady Gaga’s performance as Patrizia Reggiani is the thread that keeps a movie like House of Gucci watchable which at two and a half hours lags a lot before it finally falls under its own shoddy building materials. If there is one good thing you can say about it, at least the streaming services andContinue reading “‘House Of Gucci’ Needs Major Renovations”

Someone one going into Miracle Mile blindly might at first think it’s a simple quirky boy-meets-girl love story movie. There is absolutely nothing within the first 20 minutes that foreshadows the thrilling majority of the movie. This makes the movie more disturbing how normal everyday events can turn into chaos so fast and unexpected. ForContinue reading “‘Miracle Mile’ Presents A Nightmare View Of Imminent Nuclear War”

Leprechaun opened in the dead of winter in 1993. The commercials advertising this movie made it out to be a straight horror movie about a murdering leprechaun terrorizing people. By this time, horror of all kind was in a slump. Even though The Silence of the Lambs had won many Oscars the year before, itContinue reading “‘Leprechaun’ Has A Pot Of Gold Schlock”

Thirty years have passed since My Cousin Vinny opened in the mid-March 1992 to rave reviews. On first glance, it seems like the typical fish-out-of-water comedy about cultural differences between an inexperienced lawyer from New York City and a murder case about the wrongfully accused in the Deep South. It would be easy for thisContinue reading “‘My Cousin Vinny’ Set The Precedent On Legal Comedies”

Why do people hate M. Night Shyamalan so much? Even Alfred Hitchcock made some bad movies. Ever seen Rope which is long and tedious even at just 80 minutes? Or how about Topaz and Family Plot seemed like someone trying to be Hitchcock. Hook is considered Steven Spielberg’s worst movie but people still love it.Continue reading “Shyamalan Using ‘Old’ Techniques In Latest Thriller”

Jean Luc-Godard once said “The only way to criticize a movie is to make another movie.” I’ve never seen the original Oscar-winning West Side Story. I do know that it would be hard to make it in this day and age with the white-washing of the characters as they did in 1961. And also, itContinue reading “‘West Side’ Presents Same Story, Different Delivery”