Month: August 2020

There’s a moral to this story. A lesson to be learned. That lesson can be summed up in two little words: Be nice. In general, yes, that’s always a good idea, but particularly in traffic. Because you never know. That person you’re blaring your horn at or flipping off might just be a homicidal maniac…

After six months, I made my return this past weekend to the theater. And it was glorious. (The film I saw was Russell Crowe’s UNHINGED, a worthy flick for such an occasion. Read my review on this site this week.) I haven’t been kept away from movies. The drive-in has been my lifeline these past…

If you’re wondering why I’m writing so much about THE NEW MUTANTS, well, first off, it’s a new movie releasing to theaters. That in and of itself makes it newsworthy. It’s a big flippin’ deal, since movie theaters have been locked up since early spring. Also, it’s a new movie releasing to theaters, the first…

This dude writing for Bloody Disgusting has finally tipped his hand. This same guy has been telling us for weeks, assuring us, in fact, that movie theaters won’t reopen in 2020. That there won’t be any new movies released in 2020. He claims to take no pleasure in being the bearer of such news. He…

It looks like they’re really going to do it this time. They’re really going to release this movie. That in itself is big news. It’s also big news—like, really big news—that a new movie is going to be released to theaters, period. Movie houses have been closed, under sheets, gathering dust since early spring, when…

I have a friend who has vanished down the rabbit hole of conspiracies in the wake of the Epstein thing. (Granted she was kinda out there to begin with.) I’ll explain, as I tried to do with her, why this is not a good thing to do. But first, some debunking. No, there is not…

So much for me getting to see ANTEBELLUM. After it got delayed for the second time due to the ‘Rona, they pulled it from the schedule altogether. Here’s what the filmmakers had to say about it: “While we designed Antebellum to be consumed as a communal experience in the theater, we are thrilled by the…

It bugs me how people who don’t “get” Horror will look askew at those of us who do. There’s a slight lifting of the nose, a certain look of disapproval, if not condescension, in the eyes. I’m sure you’ve seen it. They think there’s something wrong with us—not realizing that we think there’s something wrong…

History repeats itself. After the Spanish Flu epidemic of the early 20th Century left movie theaters devastated financially—sound familiar?—movie studios, who still had plenty deep pockets, swooped in and started buying them up. The result was that the studios ended up owning a lot of the theaters. As a general rule, all those anti-monopoly laws…

This Korean shocker fulfills all your expectations regarding Korean Horror films. There’s plenty of onscreen violence and lots of gore FX. But it goes a couple of steps beyond expectations with its story and with its performances. This one is as good as they get. “Whoever fights monsters must be careful, lest in the process…