It’s been a while since I’ve subjected myself to one of writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s films. I believe the last one I watched was Glass in 2019. That movie, like much of Shyamalan’s recent work, was disappointing. I haven’t yet bothered to watch 2021’s Old mainly because reviews have saidContinue Reading
Owen Wilson plays Carl Nargle, a soft-spoken, Bob Ross-type painter, who hosts a painting show on a Vermont PBS station. For 22 seasons, he’s been painting and whispering his way to local fame if not fortune. Carl lives in a customized 1970s van called “Vantastic” and wears his hair andContinue Reading
Dragonslayer revolves around a deceptively simple fantasy quest. A dragon threatens the kingdom of Urland and the locals approach Ulrich (Ralph Richardson), a sorcerer, to help them vanquish it. However, the sorcerer dies before he can make the journey. In his stead, Ulrich’s apprentice, Galen (Peter MacNicol,) takes up theContinue Reading
Edward D. Wood, Jr. is widely known as one of the worst directors with whom Hollywood has ever had the pleasure of dealing. While I’ve seen Plan 9 from Outer Space, the film that is considered his “masterpiece,” many times, I’d never seen any of his other movies. I decidedContinue Reading
2015’s Creed was a dynamite reshaping of the Rocky franchise that managed to simultaneously introduce a new character and extend the life of a beloved icon. 2018’s Creed II played it safe and, while enjoyable, was less interested in moving its titular character forward as it was revisiting Rocky’s past.Continue Reading
“Inspired by true events,” claims the advertising campaign for Cocaine Bear, a movie about a bear that ingests cocaine and goes on a murder spree through a national park in Georgia. Yes, there really was a bear that came across some cocaine dumped from an airplane. Yes, it ate some.Continue Reading
I was only a few minutes into Zero Hour! when I recognized the name Ted Striker or, as it is spelled in the movie, Ted Stryker. The name of the protagonist of this 1957 thriller, as played by Dana Andrews, is the same as the protagonist of 1980’s Airplane!, asContinue Reading