Stephen Macht is one of those character actors you’re sure you’ve seen somewhere but can’t remember. Maybe because he kinda looks like he could be Roy Scheider’s half-brother or with his facial hair, looks like Fred Ward, another character actor who never really achieve leading man status. In The Monster Squad, Macht played the JimContinue reading “Outrageous Performances Breathe Life Into B-Movie ‘Graveyard Shift’”
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‘The Mill’ Takes Its Toll
The Mill could’ve worked better as an episode of Black Mirror because it falls apart during the half-way mark. Joe (Lil Rel Howery) walks up in an open-air prison unsure of how he got there. He’s dressed in a suit and tells anyone who will listen he works for the Mallard Corporation. In the centerContinue reading “‘The Mill’ Takes Its Toll”
‘The Blackening’ Lacks Many Laughs Nor Is It Really Scary
Back in the 1980s or 1990s following the popularity of Richard Pryror and Eddie Murphy making jokes about white people with safety from hate groups, many other black comics began to draw comparisons between how black people and white people do things. But by the early 1990s with the emergence of Def Comedy Jam, itContinue reading “‘The Blackening’ Lacks Many Laughs Nor Is It Really Scary”
How ‘The Color Of Money’ And ‘Collateral’ Are In The Same Universe
With the recent passing of Piper Laurie and the upcoming release of the long-awaited and critically acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon, I’d thought I’d look back at The Color of Money released on this day. Martin Scorsese directed this movie back in the mid-1980s when he was going through a down period. As IContinue reading “How ‘The Color Of Money’ And ‘Collateral’ Are In The Same Universe”
‘The Haunted Mansion’ Is Much Ado About Nothing
For the third time in 20 years, Disney has made an adaptation of their Haunted Mansion ride. And while the Eddie Murphy-starring 2003 version wasn’t great, it had some great amusing scenes for aN early 2000s family movie. The Muppet version was just terrible. The latest version is a two-hour spectacular with an impressive castContinue reading “‘The Haunted Mansion’ Is Much Ado About Nothing”
How Piper Laurie Gave Horror Movies One Of Its Greatest Villains
By the time, Piper Laurie accepted the role of Margaret White in Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, she hadn’t appeared in a movie for almost 15 years since her Oscar-nominated performance in The Hustler. She had been doing TV work up until the mid-1960s before she took time off for about a decade.Continue reading “How Piper Laurie Gave Horror Movies One Of Its Greatest Villains”
’65’ Can Be 86ed
For a movie with a great premise, 65 is so boring and lacks excitement. Set about 65 million years ago, a pilot Mills (Adam Driver) is from the planet Somaris where he has to take a two-year journey to help the illness of his daughter, Nevine (Chloe Coleman). Apparently on other planets far more advancedContinue reading “’65’ Can Be 86ed”
‘Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret’ Is Flawed But Worth Watching
Judy Blume has shunned Hollywood for decades and for good reason. There’s a lot of things lost in adaptations. World War Z the book and movie are so different, I’m surprised Max Brooks didn’t sue to have them change the title. Stephen King sued New Line Cinema to take his name off the 1992 movieContinue reading “‘Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret’ Is Flawed But Worth Watching”
‘Jason Live’ Gives Franchise Its Final Decent Sequel Before It Goes To Hell
Some things just don’t work out the way filmmakers intend. You need only to look at the Halloween or Terminator franchises to wonder what went wrong and what were they thinking when they greenlit the movie. The original Friday the 13th was a surprise hit piggy-backing (and some might say ripping off) the success ofContinue reading “‘Jason Live’ Gives Franchise Its Final Decent Sequel Before It Goes To Hell”
‘No One Will Save’ A Disappointing Alien Invasion Thriller
A movie like No One Will Save You has a lot of potential and attempts to take a different route but in the end, literally, it fails to deliver. Much of the movie lacks dialogue with a few lines from the protagonist, Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) and some other dialogue spoken by people in the background.Continue reading “‘No One Will Save’ A Disappointing Alien Invasion Thriller”
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