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Back in the early nineties, when I was becoming interested in comic books, my father used to take me to a couple of shops that had dime and quarter boxes, respectively, which was a cheap way for...

Old – really old – college buddies Claire (Jane Fonda) and Evelyn (Lily Tomlin) find themselves reunited at the funeral service for their mutual friend Joyce. Evelyn was once secretly...

Updating the Dracula mythos for the hypersensitive twenty-first century, Renfield centers the plight of the vampire’s obsequious British henchman, conceptualizing the pair’s “destructive...

Brokeback Mountain’s Jake Gyllenhaal headlines Guy Ritchie’s military tearjerker The Covenant as sensitive-eyed but tough imperial lackey Master Sergeant John Kinley, whose life is saved...

Ari Aster, writer-director of the overrated ethno-horror Midsommar (2019), delivers another nightmare vision of European atavism, this time from an explicitly Jewish perspective, in Beau Is Afraid,...

Barrie Saint Clair, producer of Albino (1976), Flashpoint Africa (1980), and several other shot-in-Africa obscurities of the video era, was partnered with Jay Davidson and Joel Levine in the late...

Produced in 1987 by prolific British genre film producer Harry Alan Towers, Skeleton Coast is a campy minor action classic of the late Cold War brimming with explosions and awesome stunts, with a...

“You know, we’ve got the makings of a really important film here,” says a minor character near the end of Flashpoint Africa (1980). Unfortunately, no such claim can be made about...

Rhodesian writer Daniel Carney’s novel The Wild Geese, which served as the basis for the excellent 1978 mercenary adventure film starring Richard Burton, was not the first of the author’s...

Along with National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Porky’s (1981), and Losin’ It (1982), Israeli writer-director Boaz Davidson’s coming-of-age dramedy Lemon Popsicle (1978)...

I had no plans to turn my “Tubular 2021” post into an annual tradition, but here, by request, are some of the songs I most enjoyed discovering on YouTube or that got stuck in my head...

Brandon Adamson, as Pilleater announces in his idiosyncratic “review” of the recently published poetry collection Atlantean Wavelengths, is “SO BACK”. The defining statement...

With the experience of Vietnam as a reference point, downbeat reflections of war dominated the seventies, highlighting disillusionment, loss, and madness in Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1972), Deathdream...

Science-lover Laine (Sydney Craven) and her dorky black boyfriend Chase (Imran Adams) are in Louisiana to attend a “nerd-fest” convention dedicated to horror fandom. Chase, a devotee...

Reformed hacker Orlando Friar (Kevin Dillon) is having the worst day of his life. First, his wife (Lydia Hull) tells him she’s filing for divorce. Then, when he reports for work at his tech...

I haven’t been this depressed watching a horror movie since Rob Zombie’s Halloween II. Prolific horror writer-director-producer Ti West’s boring bugman nihilism is on obscene display...

A retro horror set in 1978, The Black Phone evokes the era of Ed Kemper, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy in relating the story of the turtleneck-wearing Grabber (Ethan Hawke), a child killer terrorizing...

This new COVIDsploitation quickie utilizes the pretext of a high school corona outbreak and a remote learning regimen to get away with only paying four actors to play students, with no pesky extras...

As I was watching The Batman (has titling of DC movies been outsourced to foreigners?), I couldn’t help but feel a little bad for the kids who excitedly went into this thing hoping to be entertained....

Inspired by the Disneyland boat ride, Jungle Cruise is a passable adventure vehicle for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who stars as roguish river tour guide Frank Wolff, a hustler with a...