Some sequels arrive to cash in on nostalgia. Others spend two hours reminding you why you fell in love in the first place. TRON: Legacy somehow pulls off both. Fifteen years after my original review, Joseph Kosinski's neon-drenched ...
TRON still feels like it crash-landed in 1982 from a future Hollywood still hasn't completely figured out. Watching it today is less about marveling at how accurately it predicted the internet and more about appreciating ...
More than three decades later, Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker hasn't mellowed with age. If anything, it has become even more gloriously unhinged. His 1990 parody of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein remains ...
There is something wonderfully unhinged about putting Judy Davis, Miriam Margolyes, and Jacki Weaver together, dressing them as nuns, throwing a kid into their orbit, and then sending the whole damn operation ...
It wasn’t the first buddy cop action flick ever created but it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t regard 1987’s Lethal Weapon as the definitive example. Richard Donner’s kinetic, character-driven, action extravaganza is ...
1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abject failure (*cough: The Stand), no one has (as yet) touched it, or even broached remaking it ...
Forget the capes. Forget the castles. Forget the vampires. The real monster wears a judge's robe. One of Hammer's most underrated late-period horror films, Cry of the Banshee finds Vincent Price abandoning his ...
Heavy metal doesn't need another history lesson—it needs another band willing to crank the Marshall stacks until the wallpaper peels off the walls. That's exactly what Iron Kobra delivers on Eternal Dagger, a record that ...