Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
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Hairspray (1988)
It’s Baltimore in 1963 and all the local teens are going crazy for the Corny Collins Show which features kids in the area busting their best moves. There’s only one […]
The Wife
They say that behind every great man is a great woman, but The Wife is about a great woman (Glenn Close) who’s stuck behind a mediocre man, namely Joe Castleman […]
No Man of Her Own
In one of four films Barbara Stanwyck made in 1950, she plays a pregnant woman mistaken for the person whose wedding ring she happens to be wearing during a train […]
The Fugitive
Harrison Ford is Richard Kimble, a doctor who’s wrongly accused of murdering his wife, not to be confused with John Kimble, a cop who pretends to be a kindergarten teacher. […]
Video Nasty 11: Cannibal Ferox
1981 Italian nasty Cannibal Ferox (which could be the name of an American news anchor, like Wolf Blitzer) follows an academic (Lorraine De Selle) who heads into the Amazon to […]
The Dark Eyes of London
Bela Lugosi plays Orloff, an ex-doctor-cum-insurance salesman who becomes a person of interest in a homicide inquiry after the bodies of several of his clients are found in Thames. This […]
Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
The Godfather Part III
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is back in another variety of chairs in this, the Godfather of disappointing movies. Just when Francis Ford Coppola thought he was out (having bought a […]
Vincent
In this one man play, Leonard Nimoy plays Theo Van Gogh giving a talk to an audience in the week after his brother Vincent’s death at the age of 37. […]
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