Category Archives: Movie Reviews

‘Sleepaway Camp’ Has Little Thrills But One Helluva Twist

By the fall of 1983 when Sleepaway Camp was released, slasher movies were beginning their downturn. It’s easier to see this is a lower knock-off of Friday the 13th, itself an attempt to cash in on the success of Halloween. At this point, filmmakers had to have an ace up their sleeve to keep itContinue reading “‘Sleepaway Camp’ Has Little Thrills But One Helluva Twist”

‘Deliverance’ Still Plays The Game 50 Years Later

What’s so scary about a movie like Deliverance isn’t that one scene we’re all familiar with but another in which the main character, Ed Gentry (Jon Voight), kills a person who may or may not be dangerous. Ed is one of four people from the metro Atlanta area up in north Georgia on a canoeContinue reading “‘Deliverance’ Still Plays The Game 50 Years Later”

‘Ms. Marvel’ Is Proof The MCU Is Jumping The Shark

It’s only been three years since Avengers: Endgame but it seems like much longer as every time we turn around there is a MCU movie or TV series with no end in sight to what it all means. I think the biggest mistake was using the word “Endgame” as it signifies an ending. But sinceContinue reading “‘Ms. Marvel’ Is Proof The MCU Is Jumping The Shark”

‘I Want You Back’ Is A RomCom For Grown-Ups

I Want You Back is an appropriate title. It’s a flashback to an era in which adult couples in comedies acted like adults, well mostly, in movies. It was before the 2000s where they began to despise each other for no other reason then plot find themselves in love in the final act because ofContinue reading “‘I Want You Back’ Is A RomCom For Grown-Ups”

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Wake Me Up From A ‘Summer Camp Nightmare’

Summer Camp Nightmare is a misleading title especially for a movie released in 1987 as the slasher craze had ruled movie theaters earlier that decade. Even the movie poster art is misleading with one featuring a drawing of a woman screaming (as above), another with a photo of a young woman brandishing a knife. IfContinue reading “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Wake Me Up From A ‘Summer Camp Nightmare’”

Grim Future Awaits ‘A Boy And His Dog’

Hopefully, we’re nowhere near the dystopia wasteland that is 2024 that is the setting for A Boy and his Dog. World War IV has happened and both America and the Soviet Union has launched all nuclear missile from the silos and not much is left of human civilization, at least in America. Some humans stillContinue reading “Grim Future Awaits ‘A Boy And His Dog’”

‘Licorice Pizza’ Looks Good But Leaves Bad Taste That’s Hard To Swallow

I generally like a lot of Paul Thomas Anderson’s works. A lot of of his movies are set in the San Fernando Valley because that’s where he was born and raised. It’s an odd community where a hairdresser like Jon Peters can live in a nice house in the hills and date Barbara Streisand. It’sContinue reading “‘Licorice Pizza’ Looks Good But Leaves Bad Taste That’s Hard To Swallow”

Always Be Together In ‘Electric Dreams”

Of all the celebrities that seemed to have passed away in the past week, some people probably do not know who Lenny Von Dohlen was. They may have remembered him from Twin Peaks where he played the agoraphobic Harold Smith who had met Laura Palmer when she delivered meals to his house. He also appearedContinue reading “Always Be Together In ‘Electric Dreams””

‘Escape From New York’ Was Kurt Russell’s Escape From Disney

There’s an anecdote about the filming of Escape from New York in which Kurt Russell, during a break, went walking down a neighborhood in East St. Louis, Ill. while in costume as Snake Plissken. In one version, Russell is walking with John Carpenter, director and co-writer, as they are talking about an upcoming scene. EitherContinue reading “‘Escape From New York’ Was Kurt Russell’s Escape From Disney”