Of all the throwback retro-grindhouse movies that have come out in the past decade or so, The Love Witch comes closest to matching the look and feel of its original inspirations. The color scheme, costumes, make-up, and hair all feel like they came out of a Jess Franco film from the ‘70s. That is to say it’s pretty awesome. At least on the ( Read more... )

A woman hiking in the wilderness falls into an underground cavern and disturbs a prehistoric egg. It hatches and a plesiosaur emerges. Pretty soon, it starts hanging out at a lake and eating tourists. Before long, a pterodactyl joins in and the two eventually start a fight over who gets to eat the tourists ( Read more... )

Logan is a somber movie to begin with, but it’s made all the more poignant because it’s an opportunity to say goodbye to a friend. Yes, after seventeen years and nine X-Men films, Hugh Jackman has retired from the role that made him an international superstar. Of course, I'll believe it when I see it. Superheroes are killed off and brought back ( Read more... )

Love Camp 7 was the first Naziploitation movie. Being the first of its kind, it seems relatively tame in comparison to what came later. You can tell they hadn’t worked all the bugs out yet. Still, it delivers enough exploitation goods to make it rank slightly higher than a mere curiosity piece ( Read more... )

At first, I was unsure how they were going to make this work. I mean Batman was the best part of The LEGO Movie. How can you make a whole film entirely around him? It’s like making a Happy Days spin-off about Fonzie. Sure, it sounds good on paper, but he’s really best when he’s bouncing off the other characters ( Read more... )

Little Murders is an offbeat, weird, mostly amusing, sometimes frustrating, occasionally exhilarating black comedy. It swings for the fences in nearly every scene. Because of that, it winds up whiffing big time every now and then. However, when it hits, it’s often a grand slam ( Read more... )

Ryan Gosling wants to save jazz. He’s so into jazz that when he gets a gig playing Christmas music in a restaurant, J.K. Simmons fires him when he’d rather play jazz than “Jingle Bells”. (He must’ve been rushing and/or dragging.) Emma Stone is a bad actress who wonders why she can’t get a part. (Or rather she plays a bad actress who wonders why ( Read more... )

Larry Buchanan split his time making historical exploitation biopics and cheap monster movies. I’ve sat through enough of each of them to know that despite his lack of talent, the biopics are usually a lot more fun because there is a passion and drive behind them. Movies like Buchanan’s Zontar: The Thing from Venus and The Loch Ness Horror are ( Read more... )

Dolph Lundgren has made some bad films in his time, but this one might be his worst. It’s a post-apocalypse movie from director Sheldon Lettich, a veteran of many Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicles. That sounds like a good idea in principle. The execution on the other hand is pathetic ( Read more... )

A young singer spends a lot of time in her mansion throwing parties, banging guys, and skinny-dipping in her pool. She is also blissfully unaware that her deranged gardener is stalking her. One day, he breaks in, rapes her, and drowns her in her aquarium. When her sister shows up, the gardener sets his sights on her as his next victim ( Read more... )