The Magnificent Seven (1960)

I do appreciate me a good Western and since it’s been a hot minute since I gave a fresh one a gander, the words “why the hell not?” popped through my thick noggin when I saw this title tucked in with the other rejected DVD’s parked sadly at my local thrift store. Less $5 later […]

Quest for Fire (1981)

This is another of those 80’s flicks that I’ve long been familiar with, without knowing anything about it. In fact, in my mind, I always got this one confused with 1986’s Daryl Hannah-starring The Clan of the Cave Bear (which I also have not seen…yet), which also centres on the trials and tribulations of a […]

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

I really only knew this Cold War-era psychological thriller from the peripherals of my pop culture awareness, with the closest association I DID have being Tony Scott’s fascinating cinematic failure of 2005, Domino, which was a HIGHLY fictionalized account of the true-life bounty hunting exploits of Manchurian co-star Laurence Harvey’s badass (and unfortunately deceased before […]

Noah (2014)

Just to get it out of the way – I am NOT religious. Never have been and never will be. No thank you. *don’t even get me started on the historically-factual evils, tragedies and horrors associated with mankind’s long over-cooked reliance on organized superstitions, long outdated institutions now easily warped and utilized as tools of […]

A Revisit: Body Parts (1991)

As I’ve recounted in several past reviews, the early nineties were a glorious time for me and my little band of horror movie-loving knuckleheads. Being in our early teens at the time, we were out to devour every bit of R Rated mayhem we could get our grubby mitts on, and into the mix of […]

Sinners (2025)

I’ve been wanting to see this one for a while, going back to it’s theatrical release. As usual, Life got in the way and I missed this highly praised little genre gem when it swept over our local Big Screen. What I did not miss was the increasingly vocal and almost overwhelmingly positive scuttle-butt that […]

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

An open letter to James Cameron, from a life-long fan: Stop. Just…stop. Please. Enough is enough…and three, is enough. The Avatar Detachment Phenomenon is an odd one. It’s literally the most profitable franchise in science fiction movie history…yet we never seem to talk about it. Why not? In a broad sense, it doesn’t feel like […]

State of Grace (1990)

This is another of those titles that I always remember seeing in among the dizzying myriad of VHS tapes that adorned the walls of whatever video store I was either checking out or working at (5 are noted on the ole resume’, no bullshit). Even in the Way Back of the early ‘90’s, I knew […]

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Or, as the onscreen title proclaims it – David Lean’s Film of Doctor Zhivago For years, the only relation I had with Doctor Zhivago was the title’s prominent usage in my Second Favourite Movie Ever – True Romance (1993), inserted by Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott as a clandestine place-holder for character conversations revolving around […]

John Wick Chapter 4 (2023)

As I recently noted in another review, the original John Wick (2014) caught me off guard when I first saw it. I’d gone in with next to no expectations, ready for some C grade Taken rip-off or something, especially since star Keanu Reeves hadn’t exactly been setting the Box Office on fire around that time. […]