An earthquake occurs in the middle of a sermon and unleashes a horde of fire-breathing cockroaches from the depths of the earth. 1975'...

A group of young friends looking for a better buzz decide to try summoning the dead in 2002's Long Time Dead . It didn't set the w...

I've been having some vivid dreams lately. A few nights ago, I had one about Bruce Wayne kind of failing to become Batman. But only ki...

For years, the SyFy Channel made a series of intentionally bad movies in imitation of imitations by Tarantino and Rodriguez. I'd never...

Richard M. Sherman died a couple days ago at 95. Following his brother Robert's death in 2012, both Sherman Brothers are now gone, the...

Some folks in Hollywood compel one to marvel at their continued ability to get work despite continually producing mediocrity. One of the m...

After his first couple episodes this season of Doctor Who were just so-so, I was starting to lose faith in Russell T Davies a bit. Fortun...

I'm not exactly sure why Michael Keaton looks different in these trailers to how he looked in the original film. Maybe it's just t...

An attractive young couple find themselves drawn into the web of a strange, elegant man in 1990's The Comfort of Strangers . It's ...

1984's Sheena , based on the Sheena, Queen of the Jungle comics, is widely considered a bad film. I guess it is. The dialogue is hoke...

The life of Gia Carangi, one of the first supermodels, is depicted as a tragic deterioration in 1998's Gia . Part of me thinks I'd...

Yesterday I watched another really long YouTube video, this one four hours, Jenny Nicholson's long gestating review of the Star Wars Gal...

A few days ago, I was listening to Bill Maher's Club Random podcast and he was talking to the comedian Bill Burr. I like Burr and Maher...

That old Moffat magic is back. To-day's new Doctor Who , "Boom", was a potent reminder of why Steven Moffat is the best writ...

A group of young friends are beset by a supernatural something-or-other in 2007's Dead Mary . It's low budget and feels like a Sci...

Last night's finale of X-Men'97 ended the season as it had been from the beginning--sticking fairly close to the comics. The tele...

In this day and age, a kid can't always expect the same people to be their parents throughout their childhood, but few have had the pa...

Sometimes two people with a miraculous quantity of interests in common meet and fall in love. Then things get complicated, as we see in 20...

Roger Corman died last week. It's hard to think of a bigger name in the movie business that became big primarily for its association w...

One of the great unsung performances in film history has to be Christopher Lee in 1966's Rasputin the Mad Monk , which I watched again...