As a middle-aged, suburban, CIS man, I’m probably not going to be the best judge of a highly-experimental, post-apocalyptic, super lo-fi, lesbian film.  Lest you think my description of 1992’s Flaming Ears is less than objective, this is the description of the movie from the site of its US distributor: “Super-8 DIY filmmaking at its […]

I often stumble upon movies through a bizarre series of circumstances.  Often, I find my process is like a river, with one movie leading to another through circuitous routes. So I ended up seeing 2021’s She Will because I recently saw Alice Krige in 1980’s Ghost Story and realized I haven’t seen her in anything […]

Some of the most obscure titles in cinematic history have been released on disc, so it makes it even more frustrating when there’s one that hasn’t been given the dvd or blu-ray treatment yet.  I’m hoping what I am about to write will no longer be true at some point in the near future: the […]

Two years after Hammer Studios made the feature film of The Quatermass Xperiment, they made this sequel.  Wisely opting to not take any chances, the sequel has nearly the same people behind the camera, and at least one very important cast member reappearing in front of it. Brian Donlevy again portrays the titular professor.  In […]

There’s a large sign on a building that could either be in the process of being remodeled or prepared for demolition.  Given what we have seen so far of Atlantic City in 1980, good money would be on the latter.  The sign reads “Atlantic City you’re back on the map.  Again”.  First, there’s the wording, […]

The marketing for Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 Lolita used the tagline “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?”.  Even better question: how does somebody in the 1960’s make a biopic of the Marquis de Sade?  Among the most likely answers include “you don’t”, and another is “not like this movie”. Keir Dullea was excellent […]

I have seen movies where I can say, “Well, I liked all of it except for the ending” and still come away with an overall favorable impression.  Then there are some movies where the ending was so bad, it ruins the entire viewing experience for me. Such is the case with 2020’s Come True. Which […]

Despite being a self-professed anglophile, it has taken me an unusually long time to become acquainted with the Carry On series of films.  This British comedy institution appears to be simultaneously widely loved and derided, with each entry parodying a different subject. My introduction to the series is 1966’s Carry On Screaming, a horror parody […]

I hate the term “children’s entertainment”.  It takes something that could potentially be enjoyed by all ages and puts it in that ghetto of things only to be enjoyed by pre-teens and endured by their parents.  Unfortunately, some of that marginalization is for good reason.  There has been far too much cheap garbage dumped on […]

There’s a cliché about how the young who aren’t liberal don’t have a heart, and the old who aren’t conservatives have no head.  I feel a similar sentiment about the work of Hunter S. Thompson.  I loved his books like “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas” when I was in my 20’s, but I can’t […]

There are some movies I happen to see through a bizarre set of connections. Consider this: I just happened to buy the three-disc edition of the Al Jolson The Jazz Singer because it was cheap enough and I hadn’t seen it before.  One of the special features was about the difficulty studios had to adjusting […]

I have known about this movie for so long, and have read and heard so much about it, I’m surprised it took me so long to see it. Quatermass (quay-ter-mass) is a very popular character in the world of UK science fiction.  Nowhere near as popular of Doctor Who, but still enough of a draw […]

In the past year or so, I have finally developed an appreciation for 50’s sci-fi horror.  I mention this because I was born well after that era and I had to readjust my way of thinking in approaching these films. Now, even though I was able to start enjoying those older films, I think it […]

A smart, sweet girl and the two dads who adopted her are vacationing at a remote cabin, only to experience a home invasion from four strangers.  These invaders say these are the end times and the world can only be saved if one of the three (the girl or either dad) is killed by another […]

Old black & white movies.  There are many common aspects of these that I find strongly endearing.  There’s other things that seem pretty laughable today.  Even back in the days of their original release, the separate beds for married couples had to subject to mockery by the general public. I have seen hundreds of such […]