Reviews
Tenebrae Reigns Supreme on 4K UHD [Review]
Folks of all sorts love to refer to Howard Hawks’s maxim: “A good movie is three great scenes and no bad ones.” Even if you buy it, you must concede that there’s always an ...
‘We Kill for Love: The Lost World of the Erotic Thriller’ [Review]
We Kill for Love is a sprawling epic of a documentary covering the once prosperous, undeniably exciting world of direct-to-video erotic thrillers. Also known as soft-core, or erotica, this film genre ...
Perpetrator is a Rallying Cry to be a Total Monster [Review]
We can’t all be nice girls and, as Jennifer Reeder’s latest feminist-horror Perpetrator asserts, we may not want to be either. Over the years, Reeder has cultivated a reputation for craf...
Unman, Wittering and Zigo [Blu-ray Review]
On the heels of the swingin’ sixties came the angsty and paranoid seventies. In the early seventies, across all movie genres, the anti-authority, paranoia fueled, excessively noir laden stories...
Weird Science Shines in 4K [Review]
John Hughes helped define, not only a generation of movies, but the generation itself. His films captured the cultural identity of suburban youth during the ’80s. Weird Science, his third featur...
Talk to Me is a Stark and Fascinating Horror Gem [Review]
It is hard to overstate just how successful, and also bizarre July 2023 was in the movie industry. Amongst the Barbie, Mission: Impossible, Sound of Freedom, and Oppenheimer phenomena, where theaters ...
Sympathy for the Devil Will Make You Carsick [Review]
Even a bad Nic Cage movie is still a good Nic Cage movie. Such is the case with Sympathy for the Devil, a completely useless, plodding non-entity of a film masquerading as a thriller in which the prem...
`The Baker’ Serves Ron Perlman in Gritty Crime Drama [Review]
If you had any reason to think Ron Perlman’s viral message to studio executives lacked menace, you should see what he can do with a rolling pin. That’s just one of the weapons he d...
‘Mother, May I?’ is a Dark Psychological Drama with Unique Horror Elements
I not only thoroughly enjoyed Mother, May I? but I also learned something from it. Under no circumstances, should you take magic mushrooms in the home of your recently deceased mother, along with a si...