There seems to be an unspoken rule among filmmakers that if you’re completely lacking in talent or budget, H. P. Lovecraft is the writer to go to for your inspiration.  With a few notable exceptions, the movies based on or inspired by his work are pretty awful.  I don’t understand this, as Lovecraft, like Poe, […]

This weekend, I had the opportunity to watch The Strangers.  I remembered seeing the trailers when it first came out and thinking it looked pretty creepy.  It struck me as something that could really give me a good scare.  Realistic horror always scares me more than anything supernatural; Cujo scared me more than any number […]

0.7 Bolls

In my effort to watch movies so you don’t have to, I recently rented the festival of Native American stereotypes called Bone Eater.  Hopefully those of you who follow me on Twitter enjoyed reading me life-blogging the viewing.  I plan to do more of that in the future, as the responses I’ve gotten have […]

0.999999999 Bolls

We all know the old adage.  There should have been only one.  For many, there was only one, as they refuse to acknowlege any part of the Highlander franchise after the original 1986 movie.  I thought the first sequel (or anything set after the events of the original film for that matter) was a […]

When The Rundown came out, it looked like it would be a big dumb action movie. Probably fairly fun to watch, since I do enjoy The Rock. He’s kind of a guilty pleasure with me. So I decided it wasn’t worth going to the theaters for, and figured I’d catch it on […]

I don’t really have to say a whole lot about this movie, do I? I mean, you see the title, and you know immediately if you want to see it. There’s no mystery or ambiguity here. Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane pretty much says it all: it is, […]

Documentaries are not normally my thing when I pick out movies. I guess while I often prefer realism in my entertainment, outright reality doesn’t often do it for me. Considering the number of documentaries there are on topics that interest me, I should probably watch more of them, but there it is.
That being […]

There seems to be an unspoken rule in making good movies, or really in telling a good story in any format: something of interest needs to happen.  Sadly, the makers of They Came Back (also known as Les Revenants) figured the rules don’t apply to them.  This movie committed the cardinal sin of entertainment: it […]

I love action movies, even, to some extent, the really dumb ones. They’re candy for my brain, thoroughly implausible, full of bright colors, explosions, and requiring no thought whatsoever. They’re fun, and for me, entertainment is what movies should be about. So I was more than happy to sit down with Dustin […]

0.1 Bolls

Why did no one tell me this was going to be released on Christmas Day?!?
I absolutely loved Alien, Aliens, and Predator, and when they gave us a quick shot in Predator 2 of the elongated alien skull on the wall of the predator trophy room, I knew I would someday want to see the […]