Reviews

Timing is everything for a film release, especially when it comes to finding an audience. The timing for a film like Tatami, with it’s themes of politics, oppression, and foreign relations, set in the microcosm of an international sports competition, couldn’t be more perfect. Synopsis “Leila, an Iranian judo athlete …

Let me say first that I jumped at he chance to review this. The Goonies became a well-known classic since the day it premiered. People ate this film up as one of the greatest adventure movies of all time. The Goonies opened my eyes to see a brighter side. It …

Gremlins 2: The New Batch isn’t just a follow-up to Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy, Gremlins. It’s a cinematic prank, a meta-spectacle that turns its back on the original’s relatively darker edge in favor of even more chaos, satire, and total self-awareness. Gremlins 2: The New Batch: A Cartoon in a …

Dangerous Animals is one of the better shark movies in recent memory—one that not only takes itself seriously, but actually manages to pull off a tense, gripping experience without falling into the trap of campy or intentionally bad B-movie territory. In a post-Sharknado world, where over-the-top absurdity has often become …

There is one simple reason I am banned from acting up at the dinner table: Paul Reubens, as his character, known as the 80s Icon Pee-wee Herman. Though my family didn’t care if I watched it, it became my persona. I wanted to be just like him, because I was …

A lot of horror movies rely on shock value to entertain its target audience. Whether its gore, or an over the top character or a ridiculous premise, a lot of fictional stories take a lot of liberties to scare people. Other times, horrors people face every day are on the …

Predator: Killer of Killers is not just one of the best anthology animated films in recent memory—it may very well stand among the greatest animated films of all time. Though it’s a recent release, it confidently carves out its place alongside modern animated classics like Into the Spider-Verse. What makes …

There was once a time when bad movies ruled the horror genre. It may be why some of us have an undying love for those golden years. At one time, the horror genre was experimenting, like the wild west. People were making movies, and we ate them all up. Frankenhooker …

“We are….watching you.” ~Dr. Herkermer Homolka. Those haunting words were in the trailers in the spring of 1995 for a movie coming out on June 9th. That movie was the long awaited film adaption of the 1980 Michael Crichton novel CONGO. Before we get to CONGO, let’s get to the …

Horror movies are going to be horror movies and this movie is horror but that doesn’t mean it’s good and Andrea Catinella’s Piglet is not good by any stretch of the imagination.  Let’s dive in. The film starts with a group of friends traveling to a secluded cabin, which seems …