Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World doesn't arrive with speeches about destiny or bombastic declarations of heroism. Instead, it quietly pulls you aboard the HMS Surprise , hands you a coi...
I spend a lot of time with music while I'm writing. Most albums become good company. A few demand my attention. Crossing Over falls squarely into that second category. I kept finding myself reaching o...
By the time The Ghost of Frankenstein rolled into theaters in 1942, Universal 's favorite oversized corpse had already been shot, burned, drowned, buried, and generally treated like the world's least...
There are fantasy films, and then there are events . The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is one of those movies that doesn't simply invite you into another world—it throws the damn doors open and dares your imag...
“Whoa. Free toy inside! Free toy inside!” Do I have your attention, Cult of UHF ? Good. Because after all these years, the rest of the world has finally caught up with what "Weird Al" Yankovic was doi...
A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spir...
You know what I love about House of Frankenstein ? It doesn't care. It doesn't care that the plot is completely bonkers. It doesn't care that Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolf Man all some...
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 mor...
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,...
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 rem...
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...
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 aban...
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 D...
There's something wonderfully ironic about The Last Warning . For years, it's been the forgotten one. Mention Paul Leni and horror fans immediately jump to The Cat and the Canary . Mention Universal's...
“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming,” says Barbarella ( Jane Fonda ) on her way to save her winged friend. Such is the reaction many people still have to Fonda in the title role of R...
