In the wake of Disney’s Toy Story (1995), DreamWorks released Joe Dante’s Small Soldiers (1998). Where Toy Story offered its audiences only superficial sensations of nostalgia, Small Soldiers delivers a scathing parody of Corporate… Read more »
As one of the many Top Gun (1986) imitators to come out of Hollywood in the late eighties and early nineties Fire Birds (1990) doesn’t rate so badly. Compared to… Read more »
Burt Lancaster would have been 107 years old on November 2nd. So I thought I would revisit one of my late father’s favorite films starring Lancaster, The Devil’s Disciple (1959)…. Read more »
“Diseased. A freak. Totally screwed, put together with spit and shit and honey. Impossible to figure, nutty, mean, selfish, crazy, creepy, sick, weak. On a scale of ten million, she’s… Read more »
I think that for a certain generation of cinephile when one thinks of Halloween movies they think of a few specific things. Firstly, an eighties synth score; nothing says seasonal… Read more »
The Masque Of The Red Death (1964) is probably Roger Corman’s most polished film, and certainly the best of the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations that he made with the iconic… Read more »
In the materials accompanying Shout! Factory’s blu-ray release of The House That Screamed (1969) they suggest that this film was a major influence on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977). I personally… Read more »
Phenomena (1985) is one of those rare “R-rated” kids movies. I say this not just because of Jennifer Connelly’s involvement, which brings Labyrinth (1986) to mind, but because of a… Read more »
I have always been fascinated with Russian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler. Wheeler’s book is a collection of Russian and Slavic folk tales set down on paper from what was… Read more »
I’m not the biggest fan of Robert Wise, but I do love The Set-Up (1949) and The Body Snatcher (1945). While The Set-Up sits comfortably in the Noir cannon, The… Read more »
