I was quite young when I saw The Incredible Shrinking Man in a movie theater but the film had a profound effect on me. It was the story of Robert Scott Carey, on vacation with his wife on a boat…
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A beautiful stately manor house in England, located far from anyone, amid green, rolling hills. This is the setting for a home invasion tale that goes spectacularly, violently, wrong in director Julius Berg’s tense thriller. Mary (Maisie Williams, Arya Stark…
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Alright, I admit it. I do miss theater. There is something about the experience you can have in a theater that is like nothing else. I still remember reeling out of theaters still shaking from what I just saw. Seeing…
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A horror/western hybrid with a good cast, that you wish was better and scarier than it is. After a botched train robbery, the Dalton gang heads for a nearby town to get medical attention for their wounded leader Duncan (Zachary…
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Most kids love dinosaurs. I remember when I was very young being dazzled by an ad on the back of a comic book that offered a 6 ft. Tyrannosaurus Rex. I sent in my money and weeks later a thin…
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Another fabulous month of eclectic, crackpot Blu-rays. From gorgeous restorations of pre-Code shockers; a 4K “steelbook” of a zombie classic; an exploitation gem about the dangers of weed; a film based on a controversial Jean Genet play; some classic Universal…
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A while back I wrote an article about a series of movies I call WTF Cinema– films that are so whacked-out and weird they defy quick characterization. But since then, I realized there were plenty of titles I forgot. Movies…
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Director Amy Seimetz’s eerily relevant, visually trippy nightmare fable begins with Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), who suddenly becomes convinced that she will be dead tomorrow. Unfortunately, her morbid “idee fixe” has a communicable effect on her friends, and this overwhelming…
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The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo was a groundbreaking work which shone a spotlight on the shameful way gay people were presented in film through the years. If you were gay in a movie you usually ended up dead in…
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Director Vaclav Marhoul’s harrowing and beautiful adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird is a nearly 3-hour, black & white, Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape. Petra Kotlar hauntingly plays the young boy Petra, sent to a rural village in Eastern Europe to…
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