Category: movie reviews
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Movie Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
2025 has yet to end and we already have updated Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein movies under the belt. Yes, a banner year for our old school Universal Pictures movie monsters. There is certainly a pattern at work here where we see new iterations of these guys in different but predictable spans of time. Frankenstein was…
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Movie Review: They Live
When you talk about cult 80s sci-fi classics, John Carpenters (again, please excuse the lack of all apostrophes and quotations, the button fell off my keyboard), They Live, will always be in the conversation. In terms of rank, I would place it in the high quality pantheon of flicks from that era like The Evil…
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Movie Review: Sorcerer
Sometimes you go with the recommendation from a reputable source, especially when said source has turned their skeptical eye toward the recent developments in show biz the same as you (thank you, M.B.), and that recommendation turns out to be a home run. Yes, if you haven’t noticed, movies aren’t as good as they used…
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Movie Review: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
New Beverly, Monday 8/25/25. Double header: American Ninja and American Ninja 2: The Confrontation. I asked Melodist-K if he was game, unknowing of the background, the pure nostalgia and beyond, this suggestion was soon to generate. His response, an enthusiastic hell yeah. Because we both have children, the 7 p.m. showing for the original was…
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Movie Review: Superman 2025
Let’s face it, unless were talking about the Nolan Batmans, historically, the DC Universe movies have always played second fiddle to Marvel. The perfect personification of the old adage ”Next to her I look like a turd with eyes.” Like Pete Davidson standing next to Kate Beckinsale, DC movies are always looked upon with an…
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Movie Review: Kickboxer
The typical Hollywood fighting/martial arts flick where we are 100% certain the star will win at the end follows a certain structure where we see the protagonist go through a gauntlet of villains until the big boss gives him the ultimate test at the end for glory, usually for the hand of a woman or…
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Movie Review: Predator
Predator is now 37 years old and the biggest shame of all is that entire generations will never experience it’s impact and care not to. Case in point: A new intern from the kitchen, name: Dylan. Yes, I was the asshole and no, the poor bastard didn’t see it coming. “Dylan?” “Yeah,” the kid replied.…
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Triumvirate of Cheese
Stay with me here. In no particular order but it will be. I’m thinking, thinking processing the information…Two years and three dudes. Bruckheimer. Bay. Woo. Another three dudes. Travolta. Connery. Malkovich. Yes, a tight, blockbuster span from 1996 to 1997. Are we getting the idea now? They all have one heroic man in common: Cage,…
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Movie Review: Road House (2024)
If I had to define “camp” it would be something so bad, its good…But in a bad, eh, no, terrible sort of groaning way where you’re happy but annoyed at yourself for enjoying something so low brow with such horrendous…Well, everything…I hope that makes some sense to you as its one of those holy things…
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Movie Review: Boyz n the Hood
Watching Boyz n the Hood as an upper middle class, middle aged white male, instead of a privileged white suburban teenager, was an entirely different experience but probably not why you think. Back when the movie was released in 1991, it provided a glimpse of life in a place most people in the U.S. and…
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Movie Review: The Lighthouse
There’s certain movies that are tailor made for a sick son of a bitch like myself. The Lighthouse is one of those movies. The sophomore production from the outstanding and twisted writer/director Robert Eggers, whose first movie was The Witch–a terrifying slow burn about a puritan family scraping away an existence in the woods back…
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Movie Review: Sisu
Do you like movies with gratuitous violence where the main character absorbs an inhuman amount of damage? Me too. Movies with pretty much no plot and zero romance but with scenes where there’s lots of clever ways to kill bad guys? If yes to all, then you should see this one. Also, it’s Finnish which…
The Aging Bartender 