Before any Guardians or Squad, there was the Crimson Bolt (Unmarked Spoilers) Frank Darbo (Rainn Wilson) is a troubled man whose wife, Sarah (Liv Tyler), is “stolen” by a drug lord named Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Subsequently believing himself to have been given a mission from god, Frank becomes a superhero, the Crimson Bolt, to rescue …
Category Archives: Retrospective
Men who hate women
These movies might not be horror, but they’re still disturbing. (Unmarked Spoilers) Män som hatar kvinnor or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish novel by Stieg Larson that has been adapted to film twice. A Swedish version that was released 2009, starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace. And a North American version …
Jenny Jenny, you’re the girl for me
This wasn’t quite what I was expecting. (Unmarked Spoilers) Jennifer’s Body is a horror-comedy initially released in 2009. I remember watching this movie and not liking it, which was true for a lot of people. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office failure. In recent years, people’s opinions have become much more …
Scary Movies
What’s your favorite? (Unmarked Spoilers) Scream and its first three sequels were a series of slasher movies that horror master Wes Craven directed. Instead of sticking two or more reviews under a single post like I usually do with franchises, I decided to instead look at the series up to this point. I hoped that …
Alternative Facts
Happy 4th everyone. Following the President of the United States coming under fire for acting inappropriately against a “Firefly Girl,” Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is brought in to do damage control. To that end, Brean enlists Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to manufacture a fake war with Albania to get the American public …
Who’s your daddy?
If you think that sounds creepy, good. These are two creepy movies. (Unmarked Spoilers) The Stepfather (1987) is about an unnamed serial killer (Terry O’Quinn) who’d marry single mothers, only to kill his new family when they inevitably fail to live up to his Leave it to Beaver aspirations. He is currently married to Susan …
Ex-Couple Goals
And through their strange hours. (Unmarked Spoilers) Strange Days is the 1995 cult classic that put director Kathryn Bigelow’s career on life support until she rebounded with The Hurt Locker. In the then-future, two days prior to Y2K, Strange Days is the tale of civil unrest, militant police forces, racial tension, and a high crime rate. You know, kind …
Rise and Fall
The movie that started one tremendous franchise. Today marks a special occasion as this is my 100th review on this website. To celebrate, I decided to do something a little more personal. The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, the prototype of my favorite tv series of all time.
The trilogy that made Batman movies cool again
Even with that voice, you know the one. (Unmarked Spoilers) Batman Begins should have been entitled The Dark Knight Begins, but hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. After he loses his chance to get his revenge on Joe Chill (Richard Brake), the murder of his parents (Linus Roache, Sara Stewart), Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) sets …
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Pick up every stitch
Meet the black sheep of the franchise (Unmarked Spoilers) As the horror fans among you would know, but perhaps not anyone else, Halloween III: Season of the Witch is not about Michael Meyers. The man, the myth, the legend doesn’t even appear in the film outside of a brief cameo in a tv commercial. Series writer and …
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