It was a cold and wet night in Atlanta, Georgia . My flight had arrived in the early afternoon and nothing much had changed weather-wise; even my bones shivered from inside my leather jacket. You woul...

Kebob skewers. They aren’t meant to be shoved straight into the throat. But that’s what happens when one poor girl is pushed to the limits and finds herself without the usual murder weapon. Happy Eati...

I hate cats. I have an old joke that I use in the classroom. First day stuff, so students know where I stand on the issue of those nasty fur balls. It goes like this: “Rough start to the day. I ran ov...

Cornfields and the bloody effigies raised in them that strike large, looming shadows and cause the skies to fill with big, black crows are no joke. Many a haunted tale has been heard concerning those...

Riot-grrls unite! Few things are more punk rock than this movie. The minute Lori Petty ( A League of Their Own ) as Rebecca Buck AKA Tank Girl, a member of the resistance group deadset on outmaneuveri...

The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino . Rescued from obscurity by Arrow Video , this violent and messy affair is all sorts of...

A warning. We aren’t prepared for the journey through the electronic ages that is Zero Call’ s Fears and Dreams of Living Machines . The electronic canvas revealed here is expressive and vastly layere...

It was wise to delay the Blu-ray debut of this movie. Good move, Sony . They were counting on all of us to forget just how awfully Slender Man was received when it was originally released in early Aug...

Tough. Violent. With no CGI, a low budget horror film attempts to do what few can: tell two twisted stories around a transformation. You already know there are werewolves in this film. The poster art...

Greetings from San Fernando Valley! The Val. The “normies” live here, you know. With no edge in sight and none of its history of display, people on the other side of the Hollywood sign just don’t appr...

A camp classic, deserving of every ounce of praise it has earned over its lifetime, gets a new 2K scan from the best surviving print thanks to Shout! Factory . The Wasp Woman , written by longtime Rog...

Clean shirt, short hair, tie, pressed trousers, sports jacket or suit, and leather shoes, preferably with a high shine on them. That’s what Sgt. Joe Friday ( Dan Aykroyd ) expects from his new partner...

The sparkling keyboards! The percolating rhythms! The neon! And the voice. Yeah, that smoky-toned voice. The 1980s are alive and well thanks to the nostalgic work of The Motion Epic . Their moody debu...

There is a chill to the proceedings of The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre that, thanks to a series of interesting shots and edits, bring a sense of dreadful beauty to the sight of a car going over a cliff a...

Time travel. It is a tricky subject in film, offering ANY and EVERY chance for continuity errors in logic and in the script. Usually, we give its treatment, warts and all, a pass when it comes bouncin...