Although he is one of cinema’s most famous and revered filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa essentially found himself shut out of making films in the mid-1970s.… continue
It was the night of March 11, 2020, and I was sitting shotgun in a rental van through rural Louisiana, returning to New Orleans after visiting my future brother-in-law’s family outside of Raceland.… continue
For a deeper look into The Return of Swamp Thing, check out Joe Shearer’s excellent essay from our recent No Sleep October series.… continue
There’s a sense here, in November 2023, that we’re at the end of an era.… continue
Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Troma Entertainment. That’s quite the milestone for a film-production company built off surreal, low-budget oddities filled with overt sex, violence and gleefully offensive content — so much so that its very name is associated with a particular kind of film, and not one by which general audiences are especially enraptured.… continue
It’s frustrating to admit that Phenomena doesn’t work for me given all of its delicious ingredients: A young Jennifer Connelly in the ingénue role?… continue
Nothing in the movie criticism game feels better than watching a film made four decades ago that makes you realize how little you know about anything.… continue
If you approach life with the general philosophy that any Godzilla movie is a good Godzilla movie, there’s only one film to really challenge such an assumption: 1998’s Godzilla, TriStar’s much-maligned, Hollywood-financed foray into the classic kaiju‘s mythology.… continue
Among the more amusing anecdotes about the legendary schlocketeers at Cannon Films: They separated scripts into piles based on the Chuck they felt most suitable — Norris or Bronson.… continue
My introduction to Mario Bava came back in 2018, with 1963’s anthological horror film Black Sabbath.… continue
Prey is one of the better Predator films, which sounds like small praise considering the fact that most of the franchise is littered with dreck.… continue
Like many Hong Kong exports in the late 20th century, The Last Blood was given the title Hard Boiled 2 to help it sell in the United Kingdom, and that alternate title has stuck despite zero relation to John Woo’s seminal Hard Boiled.… continue
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