Green Room (2015) The Plot: After playing a last-minute gig at a sketchy club in Middle of Nowhere Oregon, a punk band finds themselves in a difficult situation when the lead singer, Pat (Anton Yelchin), accidentally witnesses a murder. Now trapped in the club with a gang of skinheads—led by the calmly unsettling Darcy (Patrick…
For one of John Carpenter’s most financially successful films of his mythic 80s run of films, Prince of Darkness sure feels like a lost film. Sandwiched unfavorably in between the release of Carpenter favorites Big Trouble in Little China and They Live and picked apart by critics upon its initial release, Prince of Darkness rarely gets discussed with the same frequency…
Look, I don’t watch a ton of TV[1]. It takes a lot to get me invested in a TV show, because it is a considerable time commitment, and if I plan on devoting that many hours of my life to watching something, it had better be good[2]. So far this decade, I have only watched…
Baddie: Curiosity killed the florist. Lesson: Never trust a talking plant. I was sorely tempted to watch some better known Corman classics for my second Octoberween movie, but ultimately I couldn’t resist the temptations of Little Shop of Horrors. One of my favorite musical movies (see this list), directed by one of my favorite directors, with Jack…Nicholson? This…
Last week, before exploring the dark, dark place known as the two live action Scooby-Doo movies, I gave a brief review of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, a 1998 straight-to-video film that just about singlehandedly revived the franchise after—depending on how you count and how you feel about A Pup Named Scooby-Doo—about two decades of stagnation.…
In 1930, Universal Pictures faced an emerging problem. “Talkies” had just surpassed silent cinema as the industry standard, and though sound promised previously unrealized potential for movies, it also promised to shrink audiences. Silent movies were universal in a way films spoken in one language couldn’t be, and dubbing a film into different languages was nigh-impossible…
“It was a tumultuous time for our nation. The clear beverage craze gave us all a reason to live, the information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek, and the domestication of the dog continued unabated.” Homer Simpson’s concise scene-setting of the early 1990s is only somewhat corroborated by the…
Rooster Illusion 