In my beloved horror genre, few people can proudly bear the title Scream Queen. And it is not a term to be looked down on, it represents the power of women in horror, the ones who fight back against evil and survive. Jamie Lee Curtis is perhaps the Queen [...]
The thriller genre is a wonderful one as it straddles the line between dramas and horror, often shifting back and forth between the two. My favorite thrillers are ones that find the characters faced with impossible situations that they must overcome to [...]
I am a fan of vampires. I have been ever since I was a kid when I first read Bram Stoker’s Dracula and saw the old Universal Monsters movies and Hammer films. As I grew older I became obsessed with Dracula, then with Nosferatu, then The Lost Boys. As an [...]
While I am often reviewing genre films, horror, superhero flicks and other blockbusters, I actually have a very tender reserved spot in my heart for stories of people trying to get through life. Movies like Lost in Translation, Frankie and Johnny, The Way [...]
There’s nothing better than sitting down with a twisty little indie thriller with original ideas and a fun sense of mystery. Movie like Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Shane Carruth’s Primer, and Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin are all films that [...]
Different aspects of horror movies affect us all differently. Those afraid of the woods were scared by The Blair Witch Project. If it is spiders it might be Arachnophobia. Fear of water if not before Jaws would definitely be after. Claustrophobic people [...]
Ever since the release of Jaws in 1975, audiences have been afraid to go into the water but have been clamoring for more. Though no shark movie has ever come close to Spielberg’s masterpiece, including the three sequels that followed, it has never stopped [...]
As an avid horror fan, I love when a good low budget flick exceeds your expectations. I am not talking about the ones that become festival cult hits like It Follows but more like films that hit store shelves with no fanfare and you usually come upon just [...]
I consider Jodie Foster to be Hollywood royalty. Not in the way that her whole family is Hollywood types but in that she has been working in films almost her whole life and encompasses what makes Hollywood great. Drive, talent, class and passion. She has [...]
As movie fans, action movies are part of a well balanced diet. Guns can be horrible in real life but in movies they are the perfect devices for well-choreographed action sequences. Fight scenes are awesome but there is nothing like a good gunfight. [...]
Star Wars. The name of that movie, now a series of movies, is iconic and known throughout most of the world in many languages. For my generation it is the defining film, the one that shaped our imaginations and gave way to a whole new way for filmmakers [...]
Oh Sacha Baron Cohen. There is an actor that never fails to keep me guessing and making me continually jump back and forth between loving him and hating him. When Borat came out in 2006 I thought it looked ridiculous and had no interest in seeing it. Yet [...]
Movies about sports, athletes and inspirational stories therein have been a part of film history forever. Disney in particular is just great at giving us emotional heartstring tugging true stories about underdogs in sports. There have also been some [...]
Religious themed films have been a staple almost since the birth of motion pictures themselves. Those who believe in religious ideals as well as those who do not have always been fascinated by the tales of the Bible from the apocalyptic tales of the Old [...]
Horror anthologies are going through quite the renaissance lately, and a welcome one at that. Horror anthologies have a great history in the genre from great theatrical films like Creepshow and Trilogy of Terror to more recent titles like the V/H/S [...]
Claustrophobic and hallucinatory films have been a staple of the horror and thriller genres since the earliest days of film. Some works of Roman Polanski such as Repulsion and The Tenant or the early Cronenberg film Shivers are still prime examples as [...]
