EXPLORING: Nightmare Theater
EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally ran in Drive-In Asylum #23. Buy it now. One of my obsessions is the memory of not knowing. Now, so many of my movie-watching choices are planned in advance. Yet as I grew up in the 70s, we had the opportunity to be surprised by movies on a daily basis. Sure, you […]
Watch the Series: Terminator
While he was making Piranha II: The Spawning, James Cameron was sick and had one of those weird dreams — this one was about a metal torso holding knives dragging itself from an explosion — and was inspired to make a horror movie. His agent didn’t like that genre. Cameron fired that agent. Gale Anne Hurd, […]
Arnold Week: Collateral Damage (2002)
This film about terrorism was originally scheduled to be released on October 5, 2001, but it was obviously postponed after 9/11 and released on February 8, 2002. The original cut had Sofía Vergara hijack an airplane; this was also cut from the film. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Captain Gordon Brewer, a firefighter hunting down the Colombian […]
Arnold Week: The 6th Day (2000)
Roger Spottiswoode has an interesting career as a director, making everything from Terror Train and The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper to Air America, And the Band Played On, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Tomorrow Never Dies and this Arnold Schwarzenegger film. Written by Cormac and Marianne Wibberley (the National Treasure movies, I Spy, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle), Arnold plays helicopter pilot […]
Tales from the Darkside episode 8: “The Word Processor of the Gods”
Based on the story by Stephen King and adapted by Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas), this Michael Gornick-directed episode has Bruce Davison as Richard Hagstrom, a man who has just inherited an upgraded computer from his nephew Jonathan. This computer is quite unique, as it has the power to grant wishes. Richard’s life is […]
Arnold Week: End of Days (1999)
Peter Hyams is a funny guy. He once said, “O. J. Simpson was in Capricorn One and Robert Blake was in Busting. I’ve said many times: Some people have AFI Lifetime Achievement awards, some people have multiple Oscars, my bit of trivia is that I’ve made films with two leading men who were subsequently tried […]
Arnold Week: Batman and Robin (1997)
EDITOR’S MONTH: This was one of the first movies on this site, posted on June 30, 2017. For some reason, I think about this movie all the time and quote Arnold’s lines. It’s hard to find a movie as critically reviled and universally despised as Batman and Robin. But I was going into this with an […]
TUBI PICKS (week 12)
It’s Thursday and that means it’s time to fill your brain with some wild stuff on Tubi. 1. The Necro Files: TUBI LINK If you haven’t ordered this from Video Vengeance’s new line of SOV blu rays, good news. You can get a sneak preview at this movie right now. Why do I love it? Well, […]
Arnold Week: Eraser (1996)
For some reason, I never watched Eraser. And let me tell you, fifty-year-old me loved it so much that I kept yelling “You’ve been erased” for days after watching it. Maybe that’s because Chuck Russell, who made The Blob and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors directed it. Arnold Schwarzenegger is John Kruger, a U.S. Marshal for the Witness […]
Arnold Week: Junior (1994)
It’s just a decade or so between Arnold Schwarzenegger being a Terminator and him being the world’s first pregnant man, so never let it be said that the man has no range. Teaming with Ivan Reitman again after Twins and Kindergarten Cop, this may not have had the same magic as those films, but it has some […]
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