Letterboxd Review: A Bucket of Blood (1959)
My first attempt at making a film, when I was all of 15, consisted of my friends and I lampooning little avant-garde vignettes that seemed "artsy." The opening shot (by far the mo…
My first attempt at making a film, when I was all of 15, consisted of my friends and I lampooning little avant-garde vignettes that seemed "artsy." The opening shot (by far the mo…
Evil shrugs tonight. Evil shrugs tonight. Evil shrugs tonight. Just like last year's Halloween Kills , I'm not sure exactly where I will eventually land on Halloween Ends . I'm …
I like that Jordan Peele continues to follow the mandate that science fiction and horror can use outlandish concepts or premises, but ultimately must interrogate something explicitly real a…
Consider the last few weeks, in terms of straight-to-streaming, at-home blockbusters. Netflix spent $200 million to give audiences a movie that was trying desperately to fill the void of fi…
That The Gray Man is the latest in the endless series of Netflix stay-at-home-blockbusters--disposable yet expensive vehicles that come to the streaming platform, get shoved down your throa…
When an adult animated series like "Bob's Burgers" makes the big transition to the silver screen, I get worried by default. There are so many pitfalls to this scenario. The ba…
The phrase "character actor" typically provokes images of middle-aged men who look like normal human beings; while George Clooney or Brad Pitt somehow make that certain age look r…
It's a sequel! That means bigger explosions, more exotic settings, a new powerful bad guy...et cetera. Jumanji: The Next Level has all of that, leading movie archeologists in the fut…
File this one under "No one else was thinking about it." I imagine the Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, and Tim Burton of the mid-1990s era would have had a lot of fun making a kind of …
Kyle is reviewing DVDs found fresh on the rack of the local dollar store chain. First up is Diablo, an indie western starring Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle, Adam Beach, and…
In the summer of 1994, movie studios clearly thought they had found a hack to bring back the Western genre as a viable box office mainstay. The scam? Hide your horse opera inside a mid-budg…
Eddie Murphy called it mediocre, half-assed. Roger Ebert bemoaned its lack of comedy, and how shrink-wrapped the plot was. The general dismissal of Beverly Hills Cop II is that it's a …
If it's true that the circumstances behind the unorthodox new way films are being released are a bell not to be un-rung, are we really going to remember Trolls: World Tour as the …
I remember distinctly during the early days of the DVD boom that one of my family's first purchases was Stephen Sommers' 1999 reboot of The Mummy , and that it was packaged with …
As much bandwidth is chewed up pointing out that Star Wars is a space western, it's really not. Parts of it fit, but then again parts of Star Wars fit equally into Wizard of Oz , Yoj…
Trapped in isolation with the family, every night has become movie night and I haven't watched anything over a PG-13 in about a month. To a degree, that stinks, because even if my ki…