The eighties were a great time to be a lover of horror movies and when I was a kid going down to the local video store was a weekly treat that more often than not resulted in at least one horror film, and as I was not old enough to see them in the theatre…
Category: Reviews
Noah (2014) – Review
There have been several adaptations of the Genesis flood myth and as religious pictures tend to make for good box office dollars I’m sure we will see more, but this latest version by Darren Aronofsky is easily the grimmest yet. I’m not a biblical scholar so I certainly won’t rain on this movie’s bona fides by…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) – Review
In 2011 director Rupert Wyatt gave us Rise of the Planet of the Apes a prequel/reboot of the classic Planet of the Apes series, we will gleefully ignore Tim Burton’s messy attempt, and in doing so created an excellent film that looked to be the beginning of an amazing saga. Now it’s 2014 and Matt Reeves is at the…
The Car (1977) – Review
In 1975, Steven Spielberg didn’t just change the face of modern cinema with Jaws—he gave birth to an entire subgenre of “nature run amok” and “unstoppable monster” thrillers that studios scrambled to cash in on. Suddenly, predators weren’t just sharks in the ocean; they were everywhere—on land, in the air, sometimes even in places you’d…
Batman & Robin (1997) – Review
After the Groundbreaking 1989 Batman, the bar was set high for the (up to that point) mostly trivialized Superhero Genre, Batman Returns was another solid outing (albeit much darker) and even Batman Forever had some things going for it, but showed signs of the complete disaster to come. It takes a special kind of…