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 exception that makes the rul...
‘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 crafting challengi...
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 ran ra...
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 deploys in The Baker...
‘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...
