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 »
“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 »
Richard Stanley has been making a comeback of sorts with his best film yet, Color Out Of Space (2019), so I decided to revisit the film that once derailed his… Read more »
Species (1995) and Nemesis (1992) are two films that I grew up with and associate very strongly with the VHS format. There’s something about movies like Species, the sleazy kind… Read more »
Every October I imagine that everybody watches at least one Neve Campbell film. Scream (1996) may be the quintessential Neve Campbell film, but The Craft (1996) is the go to… Read more »
I’m ashamed to admit that I haven’t seen Robert Wise’s film of The Haunting (1963); nor have I read Shirley Jackson’s acclaimed novel The Haunting Of Hill House. I am,… Read more »
Having recently just acquired a house for the first time I felt more deeply affected by this film than I did when I first saw it when I was about… Read more »
By 1992 Francis Ford Coppola had become a director for hire, restricted by the financial debt incurred with the prestige Zoetrope productions of One From The Heart (1982), Rumble Fish… Read more »
“Memories of movies are strand over strand with memories of my life. During the quarter of a century (roughly from 1935 to 1960) in which going to the movies was… Read more »