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Ever since those fateful Easter weekend screenings of The Monster Squad at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, in 2006, André Gower and Ryan Lambert – who...
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Ever since those fateful Easter weekend screenings of The Monster Squad at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, in 2006, André Gower and Ryan Lambert – who...
Last installment, we introduced blob monsters, and we listed the three British movies that initiated the blob movie tradition. This installment we’ll list the...
After the monster success (pun intended) of Dawn of the Dead (1978), George A. Romero could pretty much direct anything he wanted. He had...
The odds are very good that you’re going to have cast or crew attend a film fest in Los Angeles, but it was still...
More American Graffiti is an uneven, needlessly slapstick, overly sentimental, preachy, shameless attempt to sell a soundtrack all the while riding the George Lucas...
What exactly are blob movies? Do they count as monster movies? Or giant insect movies? Or disaster movies? Or something else? However you classify...
If you’ve never seen the 1981 Sean Connery Space Western Outland, you should. Peter Hyams, coming off the success of the mother of all...
Some movies age poorly and not necessarily because they’re bad. History and hindsight can turn the deepest drama into a comedy and vice/versa. It’s...
It hurts to say so, but Alien: Covenant is being called a dud. There have been a handful of high-profile sequels and reboots this...
I’ll never forget the family Christmas dinner when somebody dared to pooh-pooh the movie It’s a Wonderful Life by saying it was merely okay,...
Much has been written over the years about the three main actors in Star Wars who helped define an entire generation of science fiction...
For those of you too young to remember, there was a genuine visceral thrill in determining what VHS tape to bring home from video...
Things are getting exciting. I’ve followed the production of the forever-in-the-coming sequel to Blade Runner since it was announced a few years ago, and...
The year that was 1992 is the year art-house audiences got their first taste of writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s affection for ’70s-style exploitation flicks and...
I have always been intrigued by massive failures in entertainment; aborted high-concepts, mega-bombs, so-bad-it’s-great, etc. With all of Hollywood’s best analysts, marketers, and number-crunchers...
Not counting anything written by Shakespeare, you’d be hard pressed to name another bit of literature that has been adapted into a movie as...