SCHOOL TIES
This 90s Hollyweird product is pretty good, albeit burdened with a crummy third act. These days it’s best known as an early showcase for quite a few future stars
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: ILL-GOTTEN GAINS and CLAUDE’S CRIB
What do ILL-GOTTEN GAINS, a little-seen black and white indie, and CLAUDE’S CRIB, a short-lived USA Network sitcom, have in common?
Horror Movies & Bootleg Videos Part 1: Not Exactly a Match Made in Heaven but a Match Nonetheless
The chances are, if you’re a horror movie fan then you own some bootlegged videos. You know what I’m talking about.
The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
1973’s THE EXORCIST remains one of the most successful and enduring horror movies of all time yet, Hollywood being as it is, multiple sequels were an inevitability.
THE BRAVE Turns 20
According to its own cover description, THE BRAVE “contains episodes that will shock even the most jaded reader: it is not for the weak at heart.”
On CUTTING MOMENTS
1996’s “Cutting Moments” is, quite simply, one of the most powerful short films of any sort to emerge in the last 30 years
Splatter, Maggoty Muppets and Heavenly Creatures: The Early Films of Peter Jackson
With the LORD OF THE RINGS films now ensconced in the “classic” cinema pantheon, I’d say it’s an opportune time to take a look at the output of their director
BURIED ALIVE (1990)
A slightly above average early 90’s TV movie potboiler from Frank Darabont, future director of high profilers like THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE GREEN MILE
My Favorite Year: 1994
There will never be another year like 1994
From the Grindhouse to the Arthouse
The grindhouse and the arthouse: two distinct modes of cinema that would appear to be leagues removed–and for the most part they are.