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Retro Review: ‘Chopping Mall’
Though they may now stand as relics of a bygone era where old people workout and young people loiter and commit petty crimes, they mall was once a staple of American life. In the materialistic 1980’s,...
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Creepy Mysteries: Vanish in the Snow
At the bottom of the world, the continent of Antarctica is of the most scariest and most beautiful places on earth. The human population consists entirely of researchers, some of whom have come back...
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Retro Review: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’
When it comes to war being portrayed cinematically we have no shortage of movies which show the glory and heartache of combat. However, what happens when the guns go silent and the men go home...
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Classic Scene: Clarice Meets Hannibal
Clarice meets Hannibal The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Directed by Jonathan Demme The Scene: After a few kind words and reassurance from the orderly Barney, young FBI agent Clarice Starling descends...
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Spotlight On: Hedy Lamarr
Sadly today, most people know hew name due to the genius running gag in Blazing Saddles. But in her time Hedy Lamarr was known as one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Initially in her native...
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Brilliant But Cancelled TV Shows
It seems we live in a day and age when a TV series comes to an end if it has enough of a cult following it can usually find a home elsewhere. But that was not always the case and some shows are taken...
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Retro Review: ‘The Mighty Ducks’
When it comes to feel-good sports films, Disney has got it down. From Cool Running to Remember the Titans to Miracle, the House of Mouse knows how to get an audience on their feet cheering for a...
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Greatest Justice League Stories
If their is a superhero team reminiscent of a pantheon it is the Justice League. A team without equal they recruit the best and those who have proven themselves to battle evil. Over the decades they...
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Spotlight On: Bette Davis
From a young naive woman with distinctive eyes to a full-fledged Hollywood icon the career of Bette Davis is full the stuff of legend. With a whopping 10 Oscar nominations and a filmography filled...
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Retro Review: Night Killer
Italian director Claudio Fragasso has cemented himself in film history by making Troll 2, a film argued by many as being the worst movie ever made. But a little research will show that this is far...
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Classic Scene: The Wheelchair Scene
The Wheelchair Scene Kiss of Death (1947) Directed by Henry Hathaway The Scene: Notorious hitman Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark) calmly enters the apartment of a wheelchair bound old woman. The...
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Retro Review: ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
What say do we have over our ultimate fate? Famed British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger debated this philosophical idea in 1946 in a film starring David Niven and Kim Hunter called...
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Battle For Streaming Supremacy
In the beginning, there was Netflix and it was good. Great in fact. Revolutionizing how entertainment was made available, subscribers had access to countless shows and movies of variety for one low...
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Classic Scene: Jason in Crystal Lake
Jason in Crystal Lake Friday the 13th (1980) directed by Sean S. Cunningham The Scene: The final girl of the original Friday the 13th, Alice (Adrienne King) can now breathe easy as she has seemingly...
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Grading the Hannibal Lecter Franchise
He is suave, charming, and intelligent. However, he will also slice out your insides and make an entree out of them. He is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a creation of novelist Thomas Harris. A man who should...
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Retro Review: ‘The Crowd’
By the time of the late 1920’s silent cinema had fully embraced a more fantastical style. Acclaimed director King Vidor wanted to buck this idea with his 1927 film, the Crowd. However, the head of MGM...
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Retro Review: ‘The Monster and the Girl’
There have been many emotional and action-packed films of a wronged antihero seeking vengeance for an injustice they suffered. The 1941 crime/horror thriller the Monster and the Girl, takes this...
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My Summer Reading of 2020
As summer draws to a close I, being the nerd I am, chose to spend it with my nose in a book as per usual. Haunting my local libraries, comic shops, and independent bookstores (break the chain and shop...
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Best Episode of the Office (US) Ever
Those who frequent this site know I like to talk the Worst Episode Ever of a number of TV shows. But at the end of the day I am not a Negative Nancy I am a Positive Patrick and as such it is only fair...
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Retro Review: ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’
In a small Wisconsin town in the 1950’s a seemingly simple handyman named Ed Gein, was discovered to be a serial killer, grave robber, and cannibal earning him the infamous nickname, the Plainfield...
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