Imagine a film so plagued with legal and productions issues that even the pseudonymised Alan Smithee doesn’t want to take a credit—and it took almost 30 years before the film screened to a mass audience. Such a film is Rock ‘N’ Roll Hotel . . . yes, we know the hotel’s sign uses an ampersand, […]
So this isn’t really a giallo. But then again, Near Dark really isn’t a gothic horror movie, but it does a damn good job of updating that genre too. That’s due to Kathryn Bigelow, the only woman to ever win a Best Director Academy Award. From Point Break to Strange Days and the film that won her that […]
Dario Argento’s Demons meets The Blair Witch Project as the movie about a real life haunted hotel (ala The Overlook Hotel from The Shining) turns into a “real movie” via its behind-the-scenes documentary footage. As Darkness Reigns unfolds, we meet documentary filmmaker Daniel Whitaker (filming himself via smartphone, of course) on the way to host […]
Fear, greed, and political intrigue is the name of the game for Bill Sagle (Eric Roberts, of the recently reviewed “radio week” flick Power 98), a philandering, narcissist Texas oilman who uses his wealth and power to control the political scene—and that arrogance means his machiavellian ethos knows no limits. And with him losing money […]
People like to rag on Christian Slater. I’m not one of those people. If his name is on the movie, I’ll watch it. Call it bad choices or bad luck, but the Slate does not suck. Granted, most of the movies he’s done of late do, but he himself, does not. He, like Bruce Willis […]
Editor’s Desk: Upon the news of his medical hardships, we’ve seen an uptick in our reviews of Tom Sizemore films, which is no way for anyone to discover an actor’s films. Regrettably, Tom—whose credits included the major studio films Natural Born Killers, True Romance, and Black Hawk Down—has died at the age of 61 after […]
Harley Wallen’s last film, Eternal Code, was recently featured on our site. Now, he’s back with Abstruse, which stars Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down) and Dennis Haskins (Saved by the Bell). Yes, that’s right — a man once implicated in the affairs of Heidi Fleiss and Mr. Belding, together at last in the same film. I don’t […]
When members of Joe’s therapy group start dying under mysterious circumstances, Detective Harris is forced to reopen a cold case. Her only lead: Father William – the group therapy leader who seems to know more than what is in his police statements. This comes from Eduardo Castrillo, whose film Worth we covered last year. The sale copy […]
Eternal Code is packed with people you know. There’s Richard Tyson from Kindergarten Cop. Scout Taylor-Compton, who was in Rob Zombie’s Halloween films. Yan Birch, who was the Stairmaster in Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs. Mel Novak from Bruce Lee’s Game of Death. Yep, it’s the type of movie where you say, “I know that […]
Day 18 Only on VHS: Watch something on the true psychotronic format Editor’s Desk: Upon the news of his medical hardships, we’ve seen an uptick in our reviews of Tom Sizemore films, which is no way for anyone to discover an actor’s films. Regrettably, Tom—whose credits included the major studio films Natural Born Killers, True […]
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