One of the benefits of checking out all kinds of movies is sometimes finding some old gem of a cult favorite that’s actually a pretty good movie even if it isn’t particularly well known. And I gotta say, 1987’s The Gate sure does fit the bill. The Gate, of course, Read more…
Cats. My God. Someone made this. Cats. Well, I did go to see it to see if it merited the nearly universal negative response it got. I mean, 18% on Rotten Tomatoes means somebody liked it. Would I get it? I’m not overly familiar with the play it’s based on Read more…
I thought I’d watch a couple of the movies I’d saved for later on Hulu from Turner Classic Movies, but they weren’t there anymore. Bummer. But there were some others, so why not watch the 1958 version of The Fly? I’ve never seen either version before, so this could be Read more…
Normally, I see big releases the weekend they come out, and I saw the trailer for Queen & Slim plenty of times before the movie came out. Why did I wait to see this one? Bad weather. I figured I would have time to catch up eventually, and now that Read more…
Scooby-Doo, the cowardly glutton of a crime solving Great Dane, has been around more or less continuously for roughly fifty years. He’s been in a lot of different series, some of which follow the classic formula of four teens and a dog discovering someone is wearing a disguise to take Read more…
As I have mentioned before many, many times, the original Star Wars is the first movie I can remember seeing in a theater. I loved it then and I loved it now. The prospect of more when Disney bought out the rights was, at first, a cause for cautious optimism. Read more…
Since I finally got around to the 1978 Halloween this past week and the 2018 sequel was leaving HBO at the end of the month, I opted to see it as well. This one, made 40 years after the fact and bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis while ignoring every Halloween Read more…
In the past year or so, I’ve really gotten into the better movies in writer/director/composer John Carpenter’s filmography. But somehow, I’d never seen the original Halloween. That’s mostly likely due to the fact I’ve only recently gotten into horror movies. But my pal Jimmy Impossible has been bugging me to Read more…
I generally really like the work author Pierce Brown has done with his sci-fi Red Rising series. Although the first book sounds a lot like a more adult-version of The Hunger Games, Brown presented a rather morally complex world where few characters were straight good or evil. In a setting Read more…
It seems like everyone is releasing movies straight to streaming now and by-passing the traditional theatrical release, or at least just issuing a limited one. But if it was good enough for Martin Scorsese, it should be good enough for Michael Bay. Hold on. That sounds very wrong. Anyway, Netflix Read more…