For as long as I can remember, the United States has had an ongoing struggle regarding illegal immigrants crossing the U.S./Mexico border. Without getting partisan, many solutions have been proposed and implemented and each has had varying degrees of success. In 2015, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made a campaign promiseContinue Reading
By now, everyone who is interested in this movie knows why it exists. In case you don’t, I’ll try to explain but, bear with me, it’s a long story. Zack Snyder, director of Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, was working on Justice League in 2016.Continue Reading
Whenever there is a country that Americans perceive as an enemy, someone eventually says, “We should nuke them back to the Stone Age” or something similar. It’s a comment meant to dehumanize the threat. It originates from ignorance, hate, or a combination of the two. If more people could seeContinue Reading
Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and Johnny (Russell Streiner) drive to a cemetery to place a wreath on their father’s grave. As Johnny teases Barbra about her fear of cemeteries, a seemingly dazed man attacks them. Johnny wrestles with him and falls, hitting his head on a tombstone. Barbra escapes in theirContinue Reading
Every time I’d heard about Phantom of the Paradise, it was always referred to as a takeoff on the Phantom of the Opera. So, when I decided to watch it, I really wasn’t prepared for the film as it is. It is very reminiscent of Phantom of the Opera but it’sContinue Reading
Helen (Virginia Madsen) and Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) are grad students working on a thesis about urban legends. Helen hears stories about Candyman, a murderous ghost who appears when one says his name five times into a mirror. The legend of the Candyman arises out of a story about the sonContinue Reading
When a geological dig in the Amazon river basin uncovers a fossilized, web-fingered hand that links land and sea creatures, an expedition ventures into the jungle to unearth the rest of the body. Dr. David Reed (Richard Carlson) and his boss, Dr. Mark Williams (Richard Denning,) along with David’s girlfriend,Continue Reading