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The original Alien (1979) is a brilliant film. It broke nearly every traditional science fiction and horror movie convention. It had ground-breaking practical SFX,...
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“Strange talking to someone who knows so bout you when you know so little about them…” Are you yearning for a taut retro...
With the release of Tron: Ares, there is no better time to revisit the groundbreaking 1982 grandfather of CGI, Tron, and its 2010...
Somewhere in the special features 60th anniversary release of The Sound of Music (you can also find it on across all physical and digital...
The original Alien (1979) is a brilliant film. It broke nearly every traditional science fiction and horror movie convention. It had ground-breaking practical SFX,...
Written and Illustrated by Kaida Yuji Published by Titan Books Godzilla and I go way back. My first Godzilla movie, around 1969, was...
I just watched this great new fairy tale movie. It’s about this boy named Stu who has all these imaginary friends. He grows up...
If there is one thing that people love, it’s a haunted house. We might be split on zombies, vampires, werewolves and the like, but...
Vinyl Nation is a 2020 documentary from directors Kevin Smokler and Christoper Boone. If you are of a certain age like myself and can...
In The Tale of King Crab, the new film by Italian duo Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, Gabrielle Silli stars as the...
There’s something amiss with the characters in writer/director Riley Stearns’ Dual. Set in a very near future, clones exist. And although generally illegal, a...
So… Sony made another superhero movie. Or rather, they made the same uninspired, bland mess of a live action superhero movie they have been...
As always, it was impossible to see everything at the 2022 edition of the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, TX — especially...
You’d think that the vampire genre would be, pardon the pun, dead by now, but nope, it keeps rising up from out of the...
It is an indelible part of the contemporary pop culture fabric that the nightmare-inducing original design for the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie caused...
Written by Charles Elton Published by Abrams Books Interesting, if flawed book that makes a noble effort to defend filmmaker Michael Cimino, who...
Decades ago, Joe Dante and John Davison assembled a collection of film footage they called The Movie Orgy that consisted of four to seven...
March 8th was International Women’s Day and there really isn’t a better time to talk about a film that was ahead of its time....
WITLESS PROTECTION, TOO There are two off story moments in BYE, BYE BRAVERMAN, Sidney Lumet’s 1968 comedy of grief, moments that made no ripple...
Produced by Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Matthew Vaughn Written by and Directed by Camille Griffin Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Annabelle...
Filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz had to come up with some way to make the rest of the world care about her documentary, The Automat, since...
As has been par for the course these last few years, the theatrical release of Matt Reeves’ The Batman has been postponed several times,...
Edited by Will Lawrence Published by Hero Collector We start out with a chapter on creator Ian Fleming, followed by an overview of...
After an explosive debut in 2000’s career criminal biopic, Chopper, Eric Bana has been essentially treading water in Hollywood despite his roles in a...
In 2020, the cancellation of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was an early indication that COVID-19 was just about to bring the entire...
Catwoman: Hunted shares a lot with last year’s Batman: Soul Of The Dragon in that they are both wild swings from the DC Animated...
Wildcards (potentially list-worthy movies as yet unseen by moi): Antlers, Pig, Last Night in Soho, Coda, The Sparks Brothers, West Side Story, The Tragedy...
William Friedkin’s Academy-Award-winning The French Connection gave the cinematic world what is widely considered the greatest car chase of all time. No, Bullitt (1968)...