Did you know that the legendary Grigori Rasputin was actually a kindly wizard who could open portals through time? You didn’t? Well, me neither, and it is this kind of startling information that will be revealed to those who watch writer/director Blake Harris’ fantasy film Anastasia: Once Upon a Time, a film so sweet and…
Category: Reviews
Munsters, Go Home! (1966) – Review
At a glance, the television series The Munsters could be considered nothing more than an Addams Family rip-off, but the key difference between those two shows was that although the Munsters looked like monsters, they acted like people, while on the other hand, The Addams Family looked like people and acted like monsters, making this…
King Arthur in the Movies
Stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have been a staple of literature for generations, inspiring countless retellings that blend myth, history, romance, and tragedy. It didn’t take long for filmmakers to realize the cinematic potential of these tales, and Hollywood has returned to Camelot again and again, drawn to the…
Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) – Review
In 1998, director Renny Harlin helmed a fun little shark movie called Deep Blue Sea, where we learned from Ice Cube that his “hat is like a shark’s fin,” but then two decades later, we got the straight-to-video sequel Deep Blue Sea 2, which showed us that maybe a sequel about his hat would have…
The Giant Behemoth (1959) – Review
Clones are not an uncommon subject matter when it comes to science fiction or monster movies, but in the case of director Eugène Lourié and his film The Giant Behemoth, we don’t so much have a movie about a clone, but more a movie that is a clone. In 1953, Eugène Lourié was the director…