TOYS
An allegedly kid-friendly fantasia that works best as a grown-up spectacle viewed with appropriate chemical enhancement
Reconsidering Nineties Flops
There’s something about the movie flops of the 1990s
SMILE
Overrated!
THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING
One of the more notable box office flops of 2022 was this ambitious ARABIAN NIGHTS themed fantasy from the great George Miller
EXOTICA
The foremost film ever made by Canada’s Atom Egoyan, an elliptical, provocative and altogether fascinating 1994 drama
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
GHOSTWATCH
Purportedly the most controversial telefilm ever broadcast by the BBC, a mock documentary about ghosts that aired on Halloween night, 1992
WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
An 83 minute, Baltimore-lensed 2013 video project made to play like a VHS recording of a fictitious 1987 Halloween TV special
EYES WITHOUT A FACE vs. THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS
In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version
HITCHER IN THE DARK
Gender-swapped Italian rip-offs can be fun, but this HITCHER-inspired Umberto Lenzi thriller isn’t.