Tentacles (1977)

1977. It was a good year for movies. The world was blessed with ground-breaking and notable titles like ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, ‘Sorcerer’, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, ‘The Duelists’, ‘The Deep’ and, of course, the grand-daddy of them all, ‘Star Wars’. And these are just a few of the top-notch flicks that popped into […]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

It’s always a shame when an ambitious and well-crafted movie hits The Silver Screen…and pretty much sinks without a trace. Writer / Director Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of the Cold War era espionage series is one such film. Costing roughly $75 million, it only recouped about $45 million in overall box office receipts, and that sent […]

The Burning (1981)

About a month ago, I did a multi-film review for Halloween, and one of those titles was the 2009 reboot of ‘Friday The 13th’. While I was doing a little post-viewing, pre-reviewing research on it, an article on notable slasher flicks from the early 1980’s made mention of a 1981 film called ‘The Burning’; a […]

Of Unknown Origin (1983)

I knew virtually nothing about this film, having recently encountered its mention in an amusing, tongue-in-cheek review of a ‘guilty pleasure’ flick of mine, 1989’s underwater sci-fi horror movie ‘Leviathan’. ‘Leviathan’ was directed by a guy named George P. Cosmatos, who also directed such notable titles like ‘Rambo: First Blood Part 2′(1985), ‘Cobra’ (1986) and […]

American Mary (2012)

Katharine Isabelle. She was pretty much my sole reason for checking this small genre film out. I’ve had a ‘thing’ for her going back to when I first encountered this sexy lady in the underrated (and Canadian!) ‘Ginger Snaps’ (2000). Since then, I’d enjoyed her turn in the two, also decent, sequels, ‘Ginger Snaps 2: […]

The Machine (2013)

After thoroughly enjoying ‘Ex Machina’ earlier in the day, and not having any overly important domestic shit to take care of, I decided to embark on something of an ‘A.I.’ Double Bill. This modestly-budgeted UK film had come to my attention about a year ago, and sounded like something I’d be interested in. It’d been […]

Ex Machina (2015)

Fantastic. I’ve been meaning to get to this one ever since it’s Theatrical Release, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. I’d heard nothing but positive mention of this film, and it only added to my reasons for slapping it on my ‘Must See’ list. The primary reason was that it was accomplished screenwriter Alex Garland’s directorial […]

Spectre (2015)

So here in Canada, it’s Remembrance Day…which means that, aside from a big chunk of our population respectfully pausing to rightfully pay tribute and honor to the men and women of our Armed Forces that have served bravely over the years…we also got the day off work! After my girlfriend and I paused everything at […]

Sicario (2015)

Well, THAT didn’t exactly go according to plan. ‘Spectre’. THAT was The Plan. Today was supposed to be ‘Spectre’ Day; the day I get to see the new Bond flick that opened just this last Friday, having made $73 million dollars Domestic, at the time of this writing. I even watched ‘Skyfall’ this morning over […]

Harbinger Down (2015)

Well, I can honestly say “Nice try, guys…nice try.” This ‘creature feature’ is the first film created by Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis, via their film make-up and prosthetic studio ‘Amalgamated Dynamics’. Woodruff Jr and Gillis were proteges of the late, great Stan Winston, and were with him on a number of high profile […]