‘The Hidden’ Needs To Be Seen

During the 1980s, filmmakers managed to make some of the best sci-fi movies without having much special effects. Look at the first Back to the Future or the first Terminator.   Even then, we knew that a lot of special effects are just eye candy if the story isn’t well made. There are a number of campy and crappy sci-fi movies that were released during thisContinue reading “‘The Hidden’ Needs To Be Seen”

‘Companion’ A Sci-Fi Expose Of Toxic Relationships And Gaslighting

It’s very easy for a movie like Companion to miss the mark with the same stuff we’ve seen before. I don’t blame Warner Bros. Discovery who distributed the movie through New Line Cinema for dumping it in late January. Companion is the ying to the yang that was Subservience, which opened in September of lastContinue reading “‘Companion’ A Sci-Fi Expose Of Toxic Relationships And Gaslighting”

‘End Of Days’ 25 Years Later No So Bad In Retrospect

Beginning with his role Hercules in New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger had appeared in comedies, action movies, neo-noir, westerns, science-fiction and fantasy. Yet, he had never really done straight horror. James Cameron had said The Terminator was supposed to be a variation on the slasher genre but the science-fiction elements led to people thinking it wasContinue reading “‘End Of Days’ 25 Years Later No So Bad In Retrospect”