Category Archives: Movie Flashback

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 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”

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”

While we may never see a collaboration between Joel and Ethan Coen again as Ethan has said he’s grown tired of filmmaking and has retired somewhat, almost everything they’ve done in their career spanning four decades can’t compare to their first movie, Blood Simple., about murder in the Austin, Texas area. I think one ofContinue reading “‘Blood Simple.’ Remains The Coen Brothers’ Best Work”

By the time Scream opened in theaters more than 25 years ago during the Christmas holiday season, no one probably was expecting it to be a big hit. Horror movies by the mid-1990s had become a step up, just barely, from porno movies and whatever Pauly Shore and SNL spinoff movies that were being released.Continue reading “How ‘Scream’ Changed Horror, For Better And For Worse”

I only watched the movie Crime Story because a friend of mine from college was in it as an extra. Appearing as an extra in movies like these might help boost some into the local economy, but this movie is so awful, it’s an assault on the tax incentives from the Georgia Film Commission. RichardContinue reading “‘Crime Story’ A Waste Of Time, Talent And Tax Incentives”

Back when the Marvel Cinematic Universe started in the late 2000s, it almost seemed like they were stretching things out over several movies, you kinda wondered what it was all building up to and when. I didn’t really care for the first Captain America movie or the Thor‘s first two movies. I barely remember themContinue reading “‘Eternals’ Proves The MCU Isn’t Infallible”

Alan Rickman died on this day, Jan. 14 in 2016. It came as a shock to a lot of people as he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. It had been diagnosed the previous August when he suffered a minor stroke. Despite the terminal illness, he didn’t tell many people. A month shy of his 70thContinue reading “‘Galaxy Quest’ A Hilarious Journey Into Fandom”

A Quiet Place II was the first movie in a while during the pandemic to reach over the $100 million mark. The inevitable sequel to the 2018 hit features Millicent Simmonds, a young actress who is deaf. Much of the first movie was done with the actors using American Sign Language. Director John Krasinki putContinue reading “‘CODA’ Sings An Unspoken (And Unheard) Tune”

For the past five years of so, Hollywood has been trying so much to sexualize Chloe Grace Moretz that I think she’s choosing to do movies like Mother/Android to show that she’s not a piece of meat. That Neighbors sequel seem to care more about her in a bikini than anything else and even beforeContinue reading “‘Mother/Android’ Dark, Dull, Depressing”