Retro Review: ‘Magnificent Obsession’
How should one react in the occasion their life is saved but it comes at the cost of another life? In fact, many would say the life of a person who was more… Continue reading
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Disney Marathon: ‘Fun and Fancy Free’
Last week we went with Atlantis, an unseen modern animated Disney film that wasn’t…good. So let’s turn back the clock to when Disney were still trying to make ‘package films’ a thing. For… Continue reading
Disney Marathon: Cinderella
Amid all the horror and noir we focus on this time of year you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d forgotten about ranking all the Disney movies. Well…we haven’t. And we’re coming back with… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘The Black Hole’
In the 1970’s a little movie called Star Wars forever changed the game in science fiction. In the wake of the movie’s success studios everywhere tried to get their own piece of the… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘They Live’
Director: John Carpenter Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster Plot: A drifter arrives in LA and falls in with the homeless community, where he becomes aware of a sinister conspiracy controlling the… Continue reading
My Halloween Viewing Highlights 2020
As we all know the Halloween season is fully upon us and that means horror films should constantly be onscreen. However, this genre has been around literally since the dawn of cinema so… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘Murders in Rue Morgue’
One of the great “what if’s” in horror movie history was the original plans for the 1931 masterpiece Frankenstein. During pre-production Bela Lugosi, fresh from his success in Dracula, was cast as the… Continue reading
Airplane! 40th Anniversary Retrospective
A staple of 1970’s cinema was the star-filled disaster films. Films like: the Swarm, Towering Inferno, Earthquake, and relevant to this retrospective, the Airport franchise, were major hits for Hollywood. Throwing an all-star… Continue reading
Halloween Review: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Even those with only a passing knowledge of horror movies are familiar with the enigmatic slasher Michael Myers. Since debuting in 1978’s Halloween, the Boogeyman has become one of the most iconic characters… Continue reading
Video Game Staples that Disappeared
The video game industry has evolved just as quickly as everything else linked to computers and the internet. It moves so quickly that some things considered to be the building blocks of the… Continue reading
