Hardware (1990)
Sean
Working as a projectionist in 1990, I heard some really cool music emanating from one of the movie houses in the theater where I worked. The music was a song…
July 1997
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Many people have probably seen clips from An American Werewolf in London and not realized it. Many horror movie compilations or “best of” shows frequently use the initial transformation sequence…
Batman & Robin (1997)
I finally got my chance to see the second of Joel Schumacher’s “Batman Lite” movies. Schumacher, after taking control of Warner’s big budget franchise in 1995, pronounced that he would…
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton may have failed to bring Batman successfully to the screen, but he’s done a slam-bang job of satirizing 1950’s sci-fi in Mars Attacks! A massive fleet of Martian…
Men in Black (1997)
For those that doubt a summer movie can live up to the usual hype, I give you Men in Black as an example of a film that does. It’s full…
Batman Returns (1992)
1992’s Batman Returns turns up the violence level a bit while turning down the humor a lot. Undoubtedly the darkest film in the Batman series, Batman Returns verges on the…
Batman (1989)
In the summer of 1989, there was no movie that could hope to live up to the hype that was built up around Batman — including Batman. I was horribly…