Christmas movies usually fall into one of two categories: excessively schmaltzy or excessively predictable. Fatman, a 2020 film written and directed by Eshom and Ian Nelms, is neither. In fact, what could have been its biggest strength ends up being its biggest weakness. Fatman is set in a world whereContinue Reading
I’ll be honest. I was never a huge Ghostbusters fan. Oh, I enjoyed the 1984 original starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis well enough. 1989’s sequel, the aptly named Ghostbusters II, was forgettable. And the less said about the 2016 reboot, the better. To some, the original movieContinue Reading
As a movie fanatic, it’s hard not to daydream about certain films and the characters within them. But what if a movie fan completely lost his grip on reality and began using those daydreams as weapons against those who have wronged him over time? That is the premise of 1980’sContinue Reading
Horror and comedy have always gone together quite well. One of the first successful combination of the genres was 1948’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Taking Universal’s classic creatures, Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, and The Wolf Man, and pitting them against Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, one of comedy’s great duos,Continue Reading
Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) desperately wants to be a stand-up comedian. He’s never performed for an audience, however. He prefers to hone his act in his mother’s basement. After an encounter with talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis,) Rupert becomes increasingly delusional about his chances of breaking intoContinue Reading
Oh, SyFy. Where would the sharksploitation sub-genre be without you? For a while, the channel pumped out one completely insane shark movie after another. Most of them are complete garbage with their concepts — usually given away in the title — being better than the actual movies. Occasionally, some ofContinue Reading
I remember listening to rock radio back in the 1970s and early 1980s when I was a kid. The variety of the music one could hear on the airwaves back then would simply be unimaginable in today’s age of corporate ownership and per-determined playlists. FM, released theatrically in April, 1978,Continue Reading