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...
TV And Movies
The Dark, Meta Ending I’m Hoping Squid Game Season 3 Delivers
In a dark and dramatic twist of irony, Squid Game, a blatant anti-capitalist parable, has become Netflix’s biggest commodity. As...
The Best and Worst of The X-Files Season 9
How do you end a show that has long since passed its end date? It’s a question Chris Carter and...
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...
The Best and Worst of The X-Files Spin-off The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen strikes me as a show that the writers thought would be fun only for them to soon...
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...
