As a reviewer, it is sometimes difficult to convey what makes a film worth watching without ruining the film for potential viewers. This is especially true when a movie reveals itself as something I didn’t expect it to be. Something more enjoyable or unpredictable or just completely unexpected. 2021’s Nobody,Continue Reading
When his friend is severely injured in a car accident, Dr. Ernst Sovac (Boris Karloff) takes matters into his own hands. Brain matter, that is. Dr. Sovac transplants a piece of a gangster’s brain into the skull of Professor Kingsley (Stanley Ridges.) By doing so, he not only hopes toContinue 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
Audrey (Tammy Blanchard) is a down-on-her-luck single mom. After her grandfather dies, she and her daughter, Cheyenne (Onata Aprile), decide to move into his old farmhouse. She can’t pay the rent on her current house and is likely to inherit Grandpa’s place anyway. The reading of the will isn’t forContinue Reading
The Prisoner of Shark Island, despite its sensational title, tells the story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (Warner Baxter), the doctor who helped John Wilkes Booth (Frances McDonald) by setting his broken leg mere hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The film opens as the Civil War ends.Continue Reading
Shark movies come in many varieties. There are a plethora of over-the-top and ridiculous ones. However, boring movies featuring sharks are almost as rare as truly exciting ones. One such boring shark film is Deep Blood. Directed by the prolific Joe D’Amato, Deep Blood is an Italian sharksploitation film thatContinue 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