We live in a time when every character needs an origin story and every franchise needs a prequel. Whether this need is based on actual audience demand or if it's a demand created b…
The Exorcist and New Hollywood
The Seventies was a great decade for movies. Directors like Francis For Coppola, Bob Rafelson, and Hal Ashby were creating movies with a freedom uns…
Revenge, as they say, is a dish best served cold. In the movie world it’s also served hot with blood, bullets, guns, and knives. It comes in explosions and implosions. It's sliced …
The 80s and 90s seemed, from an outward looking perspective, to be dominated by the ongoing conflict between the IRA (Irish Republican Army, used here as a catch-all for the differ…
Red River has been called the greatest Western of all time. Discounting Howard Hawk's clean up job on Howard Hughes's The Outlaw, Red River was his first foray in the Western genre…
John Carpenter's The Thing was not a critical or commercial success when it was originally released in 1982. It was only after repeated showings on pay cable channels and VHS that …
(We've lassoed up some spoilers so we have to tell you the truth) After more than a year of delays and constant social media reminders of delays, Wonder Woman 1984 finally dropped …
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
We're a culture obsessed with murder and murderers, serial killers to be more precise. We know them by their nicknames: The Son of Sam, BTK, The Green Riv…
WORLD WAR I
To say World War I started only because Serbians assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand is an over simplification of a much bigger issue. It's a high school textbook re…
CUTIES
It’s not often I feel the need to defend a movie. Defending a movie isn’t my job, it’s the job of the studios, the director, the writers, the actors, and other people invol…
