Subtle Bluntness

You know, there’s something magical about the film that results when you mix John Savage, radioactive material and nuclear warheads, and bloodthirsty genetically-engineered killer dinosaurs. Nobody puts a movie together like Roger Corman. He manages to combine minor-league talent, uncovers new hidden talent, and makes awesome-looking movies on a shoestring budget. “Carnosaur” is no exception. [...]

I love it when I get to review sequels to movies I’ve never seen. Sometimes, you watch a second flick and it really makes you want to see the first. Sometimes, you watch a second flick and you realize that you should just eat a bullet and get it over with, because you have no [...]

Here lately there’s been a rash of docudrama and documentary-style films that are typically designed to play on our worst fears. No, I’m not talking about that ass-clown Michael Moore. I’m talking about movies that are based on incidents that could happen. Here lately I’ve seen a few of them on TV, and late last [...]

You know it. You love it. Some of us unfortunate fuckers actually live it. It’s the only movie in the history of movies that cost less to make than it cost to secure the rights to the soundtrack. You’ve never heard of anybody in the flick, save for two men who became pop culture icons. [...]

Horror movies, by and large, are bogged down beneath the weight of their conventions. In order to break new ground, the conventions themselves must occasionally be broken, and one film has done that to great effect. In 2002, a film shattered the traditional idea of the slow-moving flesh-hungry zombie by totally flipping the script and [...]