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I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Thank you very, very much for reading this blog and hopefully sharing it with others. I’m hoping to do more in 2022 with the posts. I appreciate each and everyone on here you has read, liked and commented even if they read one post or readContinue reading “Happy New Year!”

Following the death of film critic Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert would have other film critics, actors and even directors on his show as he tried to find a suitable co-host. Siskel died on Feb. 20, 1999 of a brain tumor. If you ever want to see an eerie look of how bad he was, GoogleContinue reading “What The Hell Happened To Wes Anderson?!”

Sometimes, movies fly under the radar they get lost only to be rediscovered later. Take Session 9, which had the misfortune of being released one month before 9/11. It got good reviews and even the David Caruso jokes had died off since the late 1990s. But during one of America’s darkest moments, no one reallyContinue reading “‘Session 9’ Is A 10”

What is it about the Halloween franchise that keeps filmmakers coming back to it over the last 43 years? After it seemed Michael Myers was burnt to a crisp at the end of Halloween II in 1981, the filmmakers tried a noble effort to do an anthology spinoff that failed with Halloween III: Season ofContinue reading “‘Halloween Kills’ Previous Awful Movies In Franchise But Can’t Top The Original”

Filmmakers have been using gimmicks for years prior to the 1985 release of Clue and still do to this day. William Castle’s horror movies would break the fourth wall and have someone run through the theater in a monster costume. Sometimes the joy of watching a movie is the escapism it provides even for aContinue reading “Audiences Had No ‘Clue’ How Brilliant The Movie Is”

When actor/writer Dana Olsen told people what the subject of his script The ‘Burbs was about, he said almost everyone responded by saying, “There was this one house in my hometown…” or “Let me tell you about the family that lived down at the end of the block.” White flight and redlining helped turned small-townContinue reading “‘The ‘Burbs’ A Killer Parody On Small-Town Americana”

A movie like From Dusk Till Dawn doesn’t have any right to be as good as it is. Released in the middle of January in 1996 in what is traditionally the “Dump Months” by studios, it starred a hot actor, George Clooney riding high from the TV drama ER; written by a hot screenwriter, QuentinContinue reading “‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Steinbeck Meets Mexican Horror”