Japan engages in naval warfare in 1981's Imperial Navy (連合艦隊) . Despite weak special effects and an unimaginative screenplay, this Wo...

Season three of Angel has a fairly decent string of episodes before Joss Whedon suddenly steps in and knocks one out of the park with ...

We all trust the elevator, the elevator is safe. But what if it isn't? 2001's Down presents the nightmare scenario of an elevator...

Is honour but "a mere scutcheon" as Falstaff would say, an inevitable road to hypocrisy and madness, or is it a manifestation of...

This month, The Criterion Channel has a method acting playlist so I watched 1967's The Graduate . I'd say Dustin Hoffman's per...

As a self-respecting cinephile, I don't divide my attention between movies and anything else. If I'm watching a movie, it's in a...

A middle aged man and his young daughter go to live by the woods in upstate New York. Tragedy follows them, though, in 2005's Hide and...

With Disney about to release the final Indiana Jones film, they've finally managed to get the rest of the film series onto Disney+. I ...

Japanese animation used to be famous for being astonishingly weird. An example from those good old days is 1981's Bremen 4 , a feature...

Say you're grievously injured and you need to get to the ER, stat. But maybe the ER is ten miles away. Luckily for you, if you're ...

Kate Hudson takes a job caring for a paralysed John Hurt in 2005's The Skeleton Key . If she'd seen Dark Waters or Sister, Sister...

A samurai attempts to kill a wealthy lord. He fails but his 47 friends rally to the cause in 1978's The Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶) . ...

What once was fun, sexy, and romantic has become painful, violent addiction in "Wrecked", a 2001 episode of Buffy the Vampire Sl...

A frontier town is ruled by a murderous gang. Robert Mitchum comes to sort them out in 1955's Man with the Gun . It's not a bad fi...

I've been watching Henry IV , Part I piecemeal over the past couple weeks, the BBC Television Shakespeare version. It just kind of ha...

These old Stephen King miniseries directed by Craig R. Baxley are consistently enjoyable. They always look cheap and Baxley has little to ...

Some women may be manhaters but I've always said few women can hate men as deeply as men can. It shows in a lot of movies and televisi...

Those who narrowly escape death may find it is only to suffer a sillier fate down the line. So it is for the doomed souls of 2000's Fi...