Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
With so much garbage polluting the channels these days one has to wonder, “Just what kind of a nut thought the XFL was going to be a thing?” Yet questionable sports programming is barely the tip of the iceberg, certainly…
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Comic book fans were all excited when Marvel Studios and Sony worked out a deal that would allow Spider-Man to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his cameo in Captain America: Civil War was certainly a highlight of that film,…
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Gilligan’s Island aired for three years before being cancelled but in those three years the seven castaways had many wacky adventures while marooned on a deserted island located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, but what made their stay somewhat bearable…
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Mark Wahlberg is The Chosen One, believe it or not this is an actually a plot point in Transformers: The Last Knight, and for those of you who thought Wahlberg playing an inventor in Transformers: Age of Extinction stretched the…
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Though the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a very popular children show of the 1990s while I myself was a kid of the 70s, so my heroes were Scooby Doo and the Super Friends, which means that I went into…
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From the late 60s and throughout the 70s there were some very successful horror movies dealing with Satanic forces; poor Mia Farrow getting knocked up by the Devil in Rosemary’s Baby, little Linda Blair being possessed by a demon in…
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The popularity of the James Bond films lead to one of the best espionage action shows on television in the form of the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. which had a tone that ran from taught thriller to almost campy fun…
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Never trust a comet, it’s as simple as that, if they aren’t blinding people ala Day of the Triffids they are turning the population into red dust or mutants vis-à-vis Night of the Comet but in James Ward Byrkit’s directorial…
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Toho Studios may mostly be known for their Godzilla and other kaiju movies but in the late 60s they created a little gem called Latitude Zero where an altruistic Nemo type did battle with his nefarious evil counterpoint and his…
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What if Giles from Buffy the Vampire the Slayer was also Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? This is very much the vibe that Universal’s first installment in their new Dark Universe movie series gives off