Salem’s Lot
Old foes come to New England in a 1979 take on Stephen King’s vampire tale. Originally conceived as a movie, Salem’s Lot was expanded to a 3+ hour TV miniseries […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Till Death
Gerald’s Game meets Panic Room in Till Death, which sounds like a cash register breaking down but is actually a thriller about a woman (Megan Fox) waking up handcuffed to […]
Little Shop of Horrors
A nerdy florist (Rick Moranis) discovers an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming alien plant (the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs) in this 1986 horror musical. Just as John Waters’ Hairspray went from indie […]
Dune: Part One
In the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) takes command of the planet Arrakis with his Bene Gesserit concubine (Rebecca Ferguson), weapons master Gurney Halleck (Josh […]
The Return of the Living Dead
The Return of the Return of the Living Dead might be a more appropriate title since I have already reviewed this 1985 zombie comedy, but as tends to happen when […]
Halloween Kills
Never outdone, Halloween has joined the slasher space race and followed in Jason X‘s footsteps by sending its killer (or at least the man whose face he wears) into space. […]
Senior Moment
What a year for William Shatner: the oldest person in space (currently delayed by wind – unsurprising at his age), a new album (“elliptical philosophical explorations about the very nature […]
The Big Sleep
Our Double Bogie continues with The Big Sleep, adapted from the Raymond Chandler novel in which private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gets mixed up in the affairs of the […]
The Maltese Falcon
Private investigator Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is chain-smoking his way through the afternoon when in walks a beautiful woman (Mary Astor) seeking his help to follow a man she claims […]
The Island
A pair of clones (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) discover they are clones living in a clone compound, and the promise of an idyllic Island little more than an organ […]
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