Along with horror flicks, crime stories are all the rage, on movie screens and television screens. It seems to me that since the turn of the millennium (if not before), there has grown an unhealthy and rather perverse fascination with […]
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Model House (2024) ☆ ☆
I was in the mood for some sleazy exploitation, and what could be more titillating than Model House, wherein five nubile young women spend time in a house together, sans chaperones? Lingerie, pillow fights, hot tub action, perhaps a catfight or […]
Continue reading »Under Paris (2024) ☆ ☆
As someone who adores Jaws, I make it a point to see just about every shark movie out there. Most of them bite (as in suck). Under Paris is a new shark movie with a new premise, one that has generated […]
Continue reading »The Munsters (2022) ☆
Rob Zombie is a guy that I just don’t get. He’s an accomplished musician, writer and filmmaker — yet I don’t like anything he’s ever done. Too much heavy metal, way too much gruesome violence and a soul that seems […]
Continue reading »Borderlands (2024) ☆ 1/2
When I saw the preview for this science-fiction/fantasy/action/comedy I thought it was the worst preview I had witnessed in recent years. It looked absolutely terrible and I avoided seeing Borderlands during its two-week run in my area. Now I’ve streamed the […]
Continue reading »Last Seen Alive (2022) ☆ ☆
Some actors have careers that have some genuine high spots but in between those high spots sort of settle into certain patterns. Like Liam Neeson before him, Gerard Butler is one of those guys who, in between the highs of 300 […]
Continue reading »The Fire Inside (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is another film about which I knew nothing beforehand (I really am out of touch these days). Sometimes, as in this case, that turns out to be an advantage, so the story can be told without any of my […]
Continue reading »Homestead (2024) ☆ ☆
Unlike Armageddon Time (which I just reviewed) which does not actually have anything to do with Armageddon, Homestead does. And its view of how it may come about is altogether convincing, if perhaps a little soft. The first few minutes of the […]
Continue reading »Armageddon Time (2022) ☆ ☆
There is a feeling, a belief perhaps, that stories which are firmly based upon personal experience are more effective (better) than those which are wholly imaginary because the personal stories are founded in truth, in actual history. Normally I subscribe […]
Continue reading »Arthur the King (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
On the other side of the dramatic scale from cautionary horror is inspiring animal drama, another convention that dates back at least a century. The bond that can take hold and become so powerful between people and their favored animals […]
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