Film Review: DEATH WARRANT (1990, Deran Sarafian)
Stars: 4 of 5.Running Time: 89 minutes.Tag-line: "He loves a good fight."Notable Cast or Crew: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Cynthia Gibb (SHORT CIRCUIT 2, YOUNGBLOOD), Robert Guillaume (BENSON, BIG FISH),...
View ArticleBIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Comic Book Sequel
This is pretty exciting: a comic book sequel to BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA by Eric Powell and Brian Churilla and overseen by Carpy himself is being released this June. Now, I'm gonna be honest: I'm...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... JAILBREAKERS
Only now does it occur to me... that dual John Carpenter exes Debra Hill and Adrienne Barbeau ever worked together without Carpenter (they had collaborated previously on THE FOG and ESCAPE FROM NEW...
View ArticleFilm Review: THE PHANTOM (1996, Simon Wincer)
Stars: 3.8 of 5.Running Time: 100 minutes.Tag-line: "SLAM EVIL!"Notable Cast or Crew: Billy Zane (TITANIC, TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT), Kristy Swanson (DEADLY FRIEND, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER),...
View ArticleTHE EVERLASTING VINTAGE and GIRLS BEFORE SWINE at the Lower East Side...
My time-travel horror short The Everlasting Vintage as well as my collaboration with Rachel Klein, Girls Before Swine, will be screening this year as official selections at the 19th Annual Lower East...
View ArticleFilm Review: A VIEW TO A KILL (1985, John Glen)
Stars: 5 of 5.Running Time: 131 minutes.Tag-line: "Has James Bond finally met his match? Find out this summer."Notable Cast or Crew: Grace Jones (VAMP, CONAN THE DESTROYER), Christopher Walken (THE...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... WHO'S THAT GIRL
Only now does it occur to me... Who is that girl? Who is she really?Whew. Okay. A couple of things.I hope you like unmitigated Madonna-prancing!First off, this is an 80s screwball comedy presumably...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... DEADLY BLESSING
Only now does it occur to me... that I would ever see Ernest Borgnine play a crazy-eyed, terrifying Amish preacher in a Wes Craven religious-slasher flick.Er, scratch that, he's not Amish– he's a...
View ArticleFilm Review: STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991, Nicholas Meyer)
Stars: 4 of 5.Running Time: 113 minutes.Tag-line: "The battle for peace has begun."Notable Cast or Crew: William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig,...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... PROJECT X
Only now does it occur to me... that even the presence of two legendary character actors known for playing some of the best assholes of the 80s can't save PROJECT X from the inwardly collapsing force...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... CHILDREN OF THE CORN 7: REVELATION
Only now does it occur to me... are we really going to talk about CHILDREN OF THE CORN 7: REVELATION? Yeah, I guess we are. But not really. We're really just going to talk about Michael Ironside...
View ArticleFilm Review: MIDNIGHT RUN (1988, Martin Brest)
Stars: 5 of 5.Running Time: 127 minutes.Tag-line: "Taking the midnight run is a hell of a way to make a living."Notable Cast or Crew: Starring Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin (BEETHOVEN, ROSEMARY'S...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... SHAKE, RATTLE, AND ROCK!
Only now does it occur to me... that I'd ever get to see Mary Woronov try the very concept of Rock N' Roll in a kangaroo courtroom... and win!Mary just wants to take away your rockin' tunesAnd from...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... A BLADE IN THE DARK
Only now does it occur to me... it's not a spider, it's a cockroach!
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN
I reviewed DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN a while back, but upon rewatching it this Fourth of July, I noticed something new: Only now does it occur to me... that Bronson meets the venerable John P. Ryan...
View ArticleFilm Review: COLLISION COURSE (1989, Lewis Teague)
Stars: 4 of 5.Running Time: 100 minutes.Tag-line: "Not So Much A Lethal Weapon, More Of A Liability!"Notable Cast or Crew: Pat Morita (THE KARATE KID, BLOODSPORT 2), Jay Leno (SILVER BEARS, AMERICAN...
View ArticleFilm Review: RIDING THE BULLET (2004, Mick Garris)
Stars: 1.5 of 5.Running Time: 98 minutes.Tag-line: "The dead travel fast."Notable Cast or Crew: Jonathan Jackson (GENERAL HOSPITAL, INSOMNIA), David Arquette (SCREAM, RAVENOUS), Barbara Hershey (THE...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... BEVERLY HILLS COP II
Only now does it occur to me... that the COBRA/BEVERLY HILLS COP connections have been overtly referenced on film.So I'd known for some time that the script that became COBRA was originally written as...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... ARENA
Only now does it occur to me... that BLOODSPORT: IN SPACE basically exists. It's called ARENA, and though it's not nearly as good as you'd hope, it does indeed deliver on its promise of dudes in...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... DEMONS
Only now does it occur to me... that DEMONS gets to have its cake and eat it, too. Of course it's eating it with disgusting, mutated, rat-like demon-teeth,but that's neither here nor there. Let me...
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