Christmas is my favorite holiday, even if my family doesn’t generally celebrate on the day itself due to unorthodox work schedules. But Christmas movies? Those I could do without. Many speak vaguely about a spirit of Christmas as they try Read more
Can you make a movie about Fox News and its inner workings without making it particularly political? The new movie Bombshell seems to try as it focuses most of its energy onto various women working there and the toxic workplace Read more
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 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? 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? 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 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 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 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 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. Read more