Times Square
Times Square (1980) tells the story of two teenaged girls, the privileged Pamela Pearl (Trini Alvarado) and the street orphan Niky Marotta (Robin Johnson), who meet in a hospital ward… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Killer Nun
The legendary Anita Ekberg is Sister Gertrude in the infamous nunsploitation shocker Killer Nun (1979). Director Giulio Berruti litters the Hitchcockian labyrinth of a narrative with scenes of sensationalist violence… Read more »
Weird Woman
Weird Woman (1944) is the second and most highly regarded film in Universal Pictures’ Inner Sanctum Mystery series (based on a radio program of the same name). The films in… Read more »
The Second Civil War
Joe Dante’s political satire The Second Civil War (1997), made for HBO, has become more relevant in the 2020s than it ever was in the waning days of the Clinton… Read more »
Police Story
It isn’t much of a stretch to say that Jackie Chan is the Charlie Chaplin of our time. Both Chan and Chaplin write, direct, produce and star in some of… Read more »
Morbius
I really like Marvel Comics’ old horror magazine Vampire Tales (published from 1973 to 1975), especially Roy Thomas and John Romita Sr.’s Satana The Devil’s Daughter stories. Besides featuring comic… Read more »
Bad Girls Go To Hell
Meg (Gigi Darlene) is a Bunny Yeager type housewife. One Saturday, when her husband Ted (Alan Feinstein) is at work, Meg is raped by the janitor in her building. After… Read more »
Under The Skin
In the time since its first release Jonathan Glazer’s film Under The Skin (2013) has only risen in its critical status. Some blogs that I have encountered consider Under The… Read more »
Ilya Muromets
The boutique home video label Deaf Crocodile Films has done justice to Aleksandr Ptushko’s oft maligned masterpiece Ilya Muromets (1956). This Russian folklore epic was butchered for an American release… Read more »
Bonnie’s Kids
After killing their abusive stepfather (Leo Gordon), sisters Ellie (Tiffany Bolling) and Myra (Robin Mattson), run away to their estranged uncle Ben (Scott Brady). While Myra becomes sexually entangled with… Read more »
