Revelations From Finally Reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula After Watching So Many Adaptations
Dracula is widely considered the most adapted work of fiction in history, with innumerable film and television retellings, not to...
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The World Is Not Enough is the Template for the Daniel Craig Era of James Bond
Considering how long it’s taking to get the next iteration of James Bond off the ground, the reinvention of the...
The X-Files: I Want to Believe is Underrated and the Better of the Two Movies
I can only imagine what a baffling experience it would be to watch the two X-Files movies without having seen...
How Sixties Italian Film Planet of the Vampires Influenced Alien
The 1979 summer edition of Cinefantastique magazine featured a scathing review of Alien, deeming it nothing but a melding of...
Why I Want Gladiator III Despite the Issues with Gladiator II
Gladiator II does what the worst sequels are guilty of and resets everything. It ignores the resolution of the original...
Black Christmas (2006) is a Hit-and-Miss Remake with Unexpected X-Files Connections
Watching Bob Clark’s 1974 original Black Christmas has become an annual tradition for me come December. It’s one of my...
Ranking All 13 Halloween Films
In 2018 I had never seen a Halloween film. When the trailer for the reboot/legacy sequel was released that year...
Ridley Scott’s Director’s Cut of Napoleon is a Better Joséphine Film
There’s no director whose films are more deserving of a director's cut than Ridley Scott. For many decades now his...
Smile 2 is a Great Sequel to a Bad Movie
I didn’t like Smile. The 2022 horror film felt like a clone of much better films, a mixture of the...
Why the Extended Director’s Cut is the Worst Version of The Exorcist
Billed as “The Version You’ve Never Seen,” the 2000 extended director’s cut of The Exorcist was actually the first version...
