Jules (2023)
Jules takes place in a small Western Pennsylvania town named Boonton, which is located just south of Pittsburgh. It’s one of those communities that seems to only exist in the movies where everyone knows everyone else’s business. For some reason, the town holds counsel meetings every week. Milton (Ben Kingsley)Continue Reading
Expecting Mary (2010)
How’s this for a cast? Elliott Gould, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan, Della Reese, Gene Simmons, Fred Willard, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, and Olesya Rulin. If any of those names mean anything to you, the combination has to drum up a little curiosity as to what kind of movie this couldContinue Reading
Midnight Movie (2008)
Horror movie plots don’t always make a lot of sense. Sometimes, if you turn off your brain and roll with the ridiculous logic, there’s a good time to be had. Such is the case with Midnight Movie, a low-budget independent slasher film released in early 2009. The movie is centeredContinue Reading
The Colossus of New York (1958)
An atomic-age update of Frankenstein, 1958’s The Colossus of New York takes Mary Shelley’s concept of man resurrecting the dead and puts a 1950s spin on it. Directed by Eugène Lourié (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,) the film has some visual panache, but is hampered by a weak script andContinue Reading
To Catch a Killer (2023)
To Catch a Killer opens in Baltimore on New Year’s Eve. As celebratory fireworks ring in the new year, a sniper uses the noise to mask a mass shooting. 29 seemingly random people are gunned down for no apparent reason. The only common thread is the almost inhuman accuracy ofContinue Reading
Leave the World Behind (2023)
You may or may not be aware of the term “doomscrolling.” It means the tendency some people have of reading a negative or depressing news article and then searching for more information about the topic even though the information may be scary or even more depressing. Leave the World Behind,Continue Reading
The Iron Claw (2023)
If you were a hardcore fan of professional wrestling in the 1980s, you’ve likely heard of the Von Erich family. (I say “hardcore” because if you were a casual fan who only watched the WWF Superstars, you might not know of the Von Erich heritage.) I was not a hardcoreContinue Reading