Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Richard Roundtree Was One Bad Motherf-

To call the first Shaft movie a blaxploitation movie is somewhat of an insult. The word hadn’t been coined yet and it wouldn’t come into the vernacular until late summer of 1972. Shaft told the story of a private detective hired to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mobster. It’s a crime actionContinue reading “Richard Roundtree Was One Bad Motherf-“

‘Slotherhouse’ One Crazy Movie

A movie as outrageously dumb as Slotherhouse is enjoyable alone for how obvious the filmmakers just didn’t give a fuck but still manage to make a movie enoyable. Set mostly at a sorority house that looks like a secluded mansion on top of a hill (because the movie was filmed in Serbia?!?!), the plot revolvesContinue reading “‘Slotherhouse’ One Crazy Movie”

Slasher Horror Comedy About 1980s Is Almost ‘Totally Killer’

Totally Killer suffers from the same problem most horror-comedies suffer from. It works better as a horror movie than as a comedy. That might be why when Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson were making the Scream movies, they decided to use the comedy sporadically. And you can see the difference in Scream 3 as comparedContinue reading “Slasher Horror Comedy About 1980s Is Almost ‘Totally Killer’”

‘The Boogeyman’ Is Nothing To Be Frightened Of

The Boogeyman is hampered by two huge problems. The first is the PG-13 rating which leaves most of the movie in the dark with scenes that are poorly lit. I guess ever since the ratings board felt that Dee Wallace Stone firing a shotgun at a door in The Frighteners was too intense for aContinue reading “‘The Boogeyman’ Is Nothing To Be Frightened Of”

‘Beerfest’ Brews A Great Comedy

With Oktoberfest happening this weekend in Tulsa, I thought I’d look at Beerfest, the 2006 comedy made by Broken Lizard. Even though the movie barely broke even at the box office and got mixed reviews, it remains one of the comedy troupe’s best movies second to their breakthrough hit Super Troopers. Two brothers of GermanContinue reading “‘Beerfest’ Brews A Great Comedy”

Outrageous Performances Breathe Life Into B-Movie ‘Graveyard Shift’

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’”

‘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”