Day: September 19, 2019

Writer/producer/director/lead actor Steve Barkett only would create one other movie — 1990’s Empire of the Dark, in which a private detective battles a Satanic cult, monsters and ninjas — but he lent his auteur spirit to this post-apocalyptic bit of strangeness. Barkett was such an artist that while he originally filmed this in 1978, he wasn’t […]

By 2053, extensive ecological damage has resulted in lawless lands that are controlled by mutants. That’s the world that Harry Stark (Michael Ironside) lives in, working as a bounty hunter after being a cop. One of his bounties, a woman named Reno (Vanity), ends up being the reason he travels to Neon City on a […]

All summer long, I’ve had people breathlessly tell me, “You need to see this movie.” I’ve been down this road before. It was called Hereditary, Ari Aster’s last film. I debated never watching this film, but then I reasoned that as much as I detested It Follows, I loved Under the Silver Lake. Maybe Aster would hit paydirt […]