1st Year Checking (2020)
I lost my teeth playing hockey and I’m still dealing with it thirty years later, with painful implants being removed and redone, and I never made it to any high level. So that made me think about the kids in this movie — which shows how little kids who love hockey go from playing a […]
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sean Collier is a writer and movie critic. Listen to his podcast, The Number One Movie in America, on all major podcast apps. Follow him on Twitter for more reviews: @seancollierpgh Let’s plan an absurdly specific double feature. I want a double feature where both films were released in 1980, and take place […]
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Based on Mary Norton’s The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons and Bonfires and Broomsticks, this film developed in the 1960s when it looked like Mary Poppins wouldn’t get made. Due to its similarities to that movie—Julie Andrews was considered for the lead in this, but she hesitated, and Angela Lansbury got the […]
Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001)
Mary Lambert once directed music videos — Janet Jackson’s “Control” and five videos for Madonna including “Borderline,” “Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl,” “La Isla Bonita” and “Like a Prayer” — before making Pet Sematary. And yes, she went on to make a Disney Channel movie, as well as Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. It’s been two years […]
Halloweentown (1998)
Marnie Piper can’t understand why her mother Gwen won’t allow her and her siblings Dylan and Sophie to celebrate Halloween. It turns out that both Gwen and her mother Aggie are witches, despite the fact that Gwen yearns to live the life of a mortal. Now, Aggie is intent on training Marnie as a witch […]
Nebulous Dark (2021)
As he escapes from a time loop, Captain Apollo (Shahin Sean Solimon, who wrote, directed and produced this movie) has discovered that he’s in a pandemic-destroyed wasteland teaming with zombies. And oh yeah — Earth has new overlords. So what’s next? We watched Shahin Sean Solimon’s Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage last year, a movie that was his attempt […]
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