Kate Beckinsale is an architect who purchased an old mansion to renovate for resale. She's sort of a high end house flipper but this house is haunted. Or she's imagining it all because she's unbalance...

Jimmy Stewart lives in 1930s Germany while the Nazis are coming to power. All of his childhood friends are swept up in the fervor from which he politely bows out. But when the hate message of the part...

Christopher Lee wearing a badass stache discovers the remains of early man in an ice cave. He secures it in a crate with bars, chains and a cartoonishly large padlock straight out of a Harry Houdini e...

Missing Link is LAIKA Studios’ fifth film. Their first film Coraline (2009) remains their most popular movie. It possibly outgrosses the rest of their films combined when factoring in rereleases and s...

LAIKA Studios creates stop-motion movies that have almost completely eliminated the jerkiness you would see in old school stop-motion such as the Rankin/Bass specials. The motion is so smooth that if ...

The toys in the Toy Story franchise have an unhealthy codependent relationship with children. They portray getting included in pretend scenarios as the pinnacle of their existence and to be deprived o...

When Worlds Collide truly and earnestly tried to be hard sci-fi. When astronomers discover an errant solar system on a collision course with our own, they use their slide rules and abacuses to suss ou...

The problem with Tim Burton’s “weird kid who sits alone in the cafeteria, shunned by the other kids” schtick is that after a few blockbuster mega-hits it doesn’t fit. Mainstream success at the level B...

The secret to horror comedies is that the horror has to be scary. This is why Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Ghostbusters (1984), and Shawn of the Dead (2004) are great and dreck like D...

While Bernice Stegers is having an affair in an upstairs apartment above a blind man, her daughter drowns her little brother. When the daughter calls the mom with the news, her lover agrees to take he...

Oh boy, do I love a horror anthology. Recently I made a list of all the pictures I’ve seen that fit that sub-subgenre and it turns out I’ve seen 23 of various quality. None will ever be considered amo...

Depending on which movies you include, there are 25 to 27 James Bond movies released over a 60-year span. Goldfinger was the third Sean Connery Bond movie and according to both Rotten Tomatoes and Met...

The copy of this movie I saw on Tubi had the title "Phobia" which is a better title than The Nesting. I watched the whole movie and I have no idea what that means. I kinda expected to see killer bugs ...

What an absolute fumble of a stellar concept. Dakota Fanning is alone in her house when there’s a knock at the door. She lets an old woman who appears confused inside and she gives her a box and decla...

Barbara Stanwyck plays a gangster moll who gets nabbed during a bank heist. A reformist radio personality/revivalist understandably falls in love with her but she tries to rebuke him. The bulk of Ladi...

Kara Young and Mallori Johnson play orphaned twins with burn scars on their left arm and face respectively. When they meet their mother Vivica A. Fox, a woman whom they equate to God since she essenti...

It was 1999-2000 that Western audiences became aware of “Wire Fu” which is a blended slang of wire work and Kung Fu. Both have long traditions in film, wire work mostly used for flying or making it lo...

Southbound is sold as a horror anthology but I argue that it is not. They’re interwoven stories told out of chronological order very much like Pulp Fiction (1994). That isn’t to say that there aren’t ...

The Hole became very popular when the actual worldwide pandemic hit. People called this Taiwanese film prescient which it is, to an extent. Naming the virus “The Taiwan Flu” is eerily familiar to some...

Star Wars is quite the polarized IP. Fans tend to love some entries into the franchise or loathe them and usually depending on what they want Star Wars to be. Is it a space fantasy aimed at children? Is it a space opera with melodramatic familial conflict? Is it a space rebellion against space fascism allegory with space dogfights and space espionage? I mean, yeah. It’s all of those. And there’s room for all of those. As a casual fan, I’ve seen all the films but only about half the shows. I tend to like my Star Wars to be

In the early 90s, a purple anthropomorphic dinosaur in a sports mascot outfit named Barney became very popular. He lived on a set with artificial turf and sang songs and learned lessons with child act...

John Huston’s penultimate film made during the height of Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner’s fame. He’s mafia since birth and she’s a contract killer who may or may not have actually fallen in love b...

Challenge the Devil reads like a movie made from discarded subplots of several other movies. Two hitmen seek out a man who claims his dossier was stolen. They chase him through some Italian streets an...

Two art dealer friends, one Jewish, one gentile celebrate their children's potential engagement. The wedding is postponed while the Jewish daughter returns to Germany with the Gentile dad, her goal to...

Part The Lady Vanishes (1938), part Diabolique (1955), the pulpy-titled Scream of Fear is a picture where even whether what we’re seeing is unreliable narration is in question. Susan Strasberg is a wo...

Not a film I would watch without coercion, Jack and Jill looks like what it is: Adam Sandler trying to get in on playing multiple characters in a film, with one in drag like a Johnny-come-lately Eddie...