Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The third installment in a horror franchise is always a tricky thing, the filmmakers often having made a quick buck on a sequel to their successful first outing have completely run out of ideas come the third chapter. Now in…
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One must admit that the people behind the recent live-action adaptations of once popular cartoons have not been all that worried about pleasing an adult audience; Yogi Bear, The Chipmunks and the Smurf movies have been varying degrees of cinematic…
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Who would bring a blind man to a werewolf fight? Well apparently director Adrián García Bogliano would as his film Late Phases pits a blind Vietnam veteran against a group of nasty lycanthropes, and surprisingly at times is does seem…
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What if Batman was on the trail of Jack the Ripper? This was the idea that writer Brain Augustyn and artist Mike Mignola brought forth back in 1989 in what was to be DC’s first Elseworlds book (stories that take…
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Do you find elevators and elevator shafts fascinating? How much do you enjoy annoying kids yelling at each other? Have you seen Irwin Allen’s The Towering Inferno? Your answers to those questions will greatly impact your enjoyment of the disaster…
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When it comes to low budget science fiction films the name Bert I. Gordon is easily one of the most forefront as the list of “on the cheap” films he produced includes such “classics” as The Amazing Colossal Man, Village…
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The Brave and the Bold was a comic series that ran between 1955 and1983 which paired various superheroes in one-shot adventures, then in 2008 the Cartoon Network took this team-up formula and brought to it television in a more comedic…
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Do you like monster movies? How about films about outcasts? Perhaps cold war thrillers are more your bag or maybe it’s a fun caper films that hits you in the sweet spot. If any of those genres intrigue you than…
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One of the great mysteries in the history of film is how and why Marvel put into production a film based on the comic book monster Man-Thing, a character with almost no name recognition outside of comic book fans and…
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In 1971 writer Len Wein and legendary artist Bernie Wrightson created one of the most iconic and more interesting creations to ever grace the pages of DC Comics Swamp Thing, and then roughly ten years later Wes Craven tried to…
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