Zombie Town tries to have its cake and eat it too. It’s a horror comedy that isn’t too funny nor is it too scary. It tries to be for kids but thinks if it throws in just enough potty humor, adults will like it too. Neither works. Even worse, the movie boasts the talents ofContinue reading “‘Zombie Town’ Is Brainless”
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What People Get Wrong About ‘Demolition Man’ As It Turns 30
By the early 1990s, Sylvester Stallone’s career had hit the skids. Following a string of less than stellar action movies like Rambo III, Lock-Up and the problematic Tango & Cash, he had moved over into comedy with the farcical Oscar and the terrible Stop or My Mom Will Shoot! So, when he returned to formContinue reading “What People Get Wrong About ‘Demolition Man’ As It Turns 30”
‘The Meg 2’ Lacks Much Bite
The first Meg movie had some excitement to it. I saw it on a very rainy fall day and it’s the type of movie you throw on when it’s soaking wet rain and too cold to really get out. As Jonas Taylor, Jason Statham plays the stereotypical burnt out merchant for hire who suffers aContinue reading “‘The Meg 2’ Lacks Much Bite”
‘Arachnophobia’ Spins A Web Of Chills, Thrills And Funny Feels
What is it about spiders that scare some of us? Is it those eight hairy legs or the way they have fangs that you can see on some species? Or it could be the way they wrap their prey up in their webs to suck their blood. Even in Charlotte’s Web, there was something sinisterContinue reading “‘Arachnophobia’ Spins A Web Of Chills, Thrills And Funny Feels”
Did ‘Taxi Driver’ Foretell The Future Or Just Spotlight A Silent Beast?
Paul Schrader, who wrote the script for Taxi Driver, said after the movie was released in 1976, he was approached by a random stranger who he had never seen before. Somehow this man found out who he was and that he had written the movie. Schrader said the man was hostile wanting to know howContinue reading “Did ‘Taxi Driver’ Foretell The Future Or Just Spotlight A Silent Beast?”
‘Blood And Honey’ Is A Big Pile Of Poo
I went into Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey thinking it was going to be garbage. But this isn’t the regular weekly garbage collected every Thursday. No, this is the type of garbage you find in a hoarder’s house and it’s funk has seeped into the carpet and floorboard and you’re almost certain there wasContinue reading “‘Blood And Honey’ Is A Big Pile Of Poo”
More Than Expected In ‘Polite Society’
Polite Society is one of those rare gems in which you think you’re going to be sitting through another movie about the struggles of modern youth with Eastern cultures and traditions. Then, it takes you for an exciting hard left turn through its second act and you realizde that no matter how absurd it feels,Continue reading “More Than Expected In ‘Polite Society’”
‘Sleepy Hollow’ Scares Up Good Tale Of Revenge And Greed From Tim Burton
I was never a fan of the Harry Potter movies. Therefore, I can’t say much about the work of Sir Michael Gambon, who recently passed, in those movie. No, I knew him from movies like The Insider where he played Thomas Sandefur, the cutthroat head of tobacco company Brown & Williamson. Or there was hisContinue reading “‘Sleepy Hollow’ Scares Up Good Tale Of Revenge And Greed From Tim Burton”
‘THIR13EN Ghosts’ Deserves A 2nd Look
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”
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Proves Scorsese Is Right
There really is no way to describe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem without mentioning Martin Scorsese is his criticism against franchise movies and superhero movies. Considering that this movie falls into both categories, you’ll walk away with some sense that the Oscar-winning movie director is correct. Now, I don’t always agree with Scorsese onContinue reading “‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Proves Scorsese Is Right”
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