I finally saw Cronenberg's The Fly! Hey wirrrn, now I HAVE heard of insect politics! Read my take on this classic, 22 years after the fact, here!


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Another fantabulous Boston spring day out there, and I finally hoisted my beer-belly laden carcass onto my bike to commute like I used to: in pain. I have two matching bruises where my body contacts the saddle, that I would never notice except they make it impossible to sit on the bike properly. Bike shorts, a gel seat, and maybe a nice soft set ( Read more... )

This time around I review a 1970 British horror movie called THE BEAST IN THE CELLAR. It's a murky print, but a compelling and disturbing idea. Read what I have to say at Blood Blade and Thruster.


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This time I complain about the endings to The Prestige! while admitting that I'd like Fight Club better if it was a TV show. If you would like to read the full thing go to BBT.


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That's right, I don't know the meaning of "every other Tuesday." I'll get back on schedule, now.

This time around I review a 1966 movie starring Rock Hudson. Really.

While we wonder what we can say about the passing of Gary Gygax, I've gone and posted my review of The Call of Cthulhu, the 2005 silent movie adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's signature story ( Read more... )

Careful readers of this blog may find my Soylent Screen column rather familiar, as I'm using a review I wrote a year ago, before I wrote for Blood Blade and Thruster. I reviewed "Prophecy: The Monster Movie," a prequel to An Inconvenient Truth, in which we discover that mercury poisoning turns bears into slobbering mucusy skinless monsters, and ( Read more... )

Call me a sentimental old romantic, but in honor of Valentine's Day, I reviewed Slither (2006). It's the most self-conscious horror movie since Snakes on a Plane, deliberately designed to be an homage to the horror/sci-fi movies of the 80's. Brain slugs from outer space turn people into zombies, and Nathan Fillion is there too. Read my review at ( Read more... )

High-tail it over to Blood Blade and Thruster to read my review of the 1963 Roger Corman movie The Terror, starring Boris Karloff, Dick Miller (you'd know who he was if you saw his face), and a 26 year old Jack Nicholson. It's a story involving romance, intrigue, witchcraft, and Potsie Weber wearing a Cap'n Crunch costume. Check it out.

Hey! It's another fairly big budget sci-fi movie that I didn't really care for! I must be some kind of curmudgeon, I tell ya. This time it's the 2007 space disaster movie Sunshine, starring ugly heartthrob Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, and a bunch of other doomed bastards. It looked pretty cool, but I was tired of the crew's bickering by the ( Read more... )