When people ask what I do for a living, as a film critic my response is always: “I sit in the dark.” Which sometimes begs the reply: “Oh, like a vampire?” Well, not exactly. But I do feel a real…
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Contrary to popular belief your life does not flash before your eyes at the moment of death. I discovered this the hard way while standing on a step ladder to check out my VHS copy of The Night God Screamed…
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In a beloved episode of the Twilight Zone called “Living Doll,” a girl’s baby doll threatens her hateful stepdad, played by Telly Savalas, icily declaring “my name is Talky Tina and I am going to kill you” before sending him…
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Rebel and renaissance man Richard Grieco’s career is as confounding as it is preposterous. Starting out as a Calvin Klein model and a soap opera hunk (he played playboy Rick Gardner on One Life To Live in the late 80s),…
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How did I miss this 1973 film about a cross-dressing homicidal killer by the director of Shanty Tramp? Well for one, this Florida-made whack job of a film didn’t get much of a release. Thought to be lost, it turned…
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When we trot off to a movie are we really going for the acting? Or is it that stirring of the secret trouser snake in all of us that compels us to go? I recall sitting in a movie theater…
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My phone started ringing off the hook. “Al Adamson is dead!” Say it isn’t so. Not the infamous director of Satan’s Sadists, Blood Of Dracula’s Castle and The Naughty Stewardesses. God couldn’t be that vengeful. “And he was murdered!” You’re…
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Finding that right actor for action film fame is a tricky business. Bruce Willis found popularity with the Die Hard franchise but then there was Hudson Hawk. Keanu Reeves struck gold with Speed but it was years before John Wick…
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I’m not sure which I hate more- sports, or movies about them. The formula’s always the same. From Rocky on- there’s the talented but hot-headed rookie; the grizzled but wise coach; the conflict; the come-around; and, finally, the big game.…
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There is an unprecedented number of sequels opening in theaters this summer. Some are just endless extensions of movie comic book franchises. Maybe people get the culture they deserve, and in troubled times moviegoers crave the comfort of familiarity. Who…
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