Last weekend I saw 1967’s kiddie-oriented monster movie King Kong Escapes (on Svengoolie’s show) for the first time since I was a kid. It’s a stupid, nonsensical, goofy Japanese-American monster movie with King Kong and his mechanical doppelgänger, and I quite […]
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The Last Shift (2020) ☆ ☆
Character studies are not my favorite type of film, probably because so often the central character which the filmmakers wish to spotlight is deeply flawed in some manner. That isn’t very entertaining to watch, at least to me. I’m not […]
Continue reading »The Devil Has a Name (2020) ☆ ☆
Once in a while a film will tackle the subject of corporate poisoning of public land, and the people who live on it. The best of them, like Erin Brockovich (2000) and Dark Waters (2019), are palpably sincere efforts to tell heart-wrenching […]
Continue reading »Spontaneous (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
Among the odder films I’ve seen recently is this comedic dramatic teen horror opus which explores the bizarre phenomenon known as “spontaneous combustion.” Turns out that spontaneous combustion is an ingenious framework for a horror film because that unexplained and […]
Continue reading »Grizzly II: Revenge (1983) ☆
If you were asked which movie featuring three current and future Oscar winners is among the worst ever made, Grizzly II: Revenge would be a great response. Why is a 1983 movie here among Recent Releases? The project was abandoned post-production […]
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