The Washing Machine (1993)
Well, it’s official. I always thought Strip Nude for Your Killer and Play Motel were the sleaziest giallo I’d ever seen. Good news. Or bad news, depending on your morals. Ruggero Deodato is here to let you know that there’s no limit to the depravity that he can bring to your TV set. Seriously, I feel like […]
Leprechaun (1993)
Paul Andolina is back just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. You can also find even more movies in his website Wrestling with Film. I can still remember catching parts of the movie Leprechaun as a kid while watching the Sci Fi channel on the play room TV. Since then it’s been a bit of […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Jurassic Park
In 1990, Universal Studios bought the rights to Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park before it was even published. The idea of dinosaurs being cloned and brought into our modern world just works. Starting with 1993’s Jurassic Park and across several follow-ups, including 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3, announced for 2021, people can’t seem to get […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: The Tommyknockers (1993)
While known primarily as a horror writer, the novel The Tommyknockers was a rare science fiction novel from Stephen King. However, the novel was written while King was struggling with addiction and is packed with metaphors for dealing with substance abuse. The writer said, “The Tommyknockers is an awful book. That was the last one I wrote […]
Dark Waters (1993)
After the death of her father, Elizabeth travels to a remote island, where a convent may hold the secret to the death of her mother. There, she finds nuns who conduct strange rituals in the catacombs beneath the building in an attempt to hold the evil there at bay. One of the first Western films to be […]
LEAGUE OF FORGOTTEN HEROES: Meteor Man (1993)
Between Hollywood Shuffle and his HBO specials, Robert Townsend was a major force in comedy in the 1980’s and 90’s. This early attempt at showing what an African-American superhero would be like is sorely overlooked. Jefferson Reed (Townsend, who also directed, produced and wrote the film) is a high school teacher who dreams of playing jazz, […]
WATCH THE SERIES: Friday the 13th part 3
After years of hating the franchise, Paramount finally decided to give the Friday the 13th series a higher quality of budget and directors. Hey — it only took six movies! Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) Associate producer Barbara Sachs helped dream up several concepts for this film and according to writer Daryl Haney, […]
VIDEO GAME WEEK: Super Mario Brothers (1993)
My wife has never played Super Mario Brothers. She first saw this film at the now Hollywood Theater in Dormont as a child and it became one of the many films she rewatched over and over again as she grew up. I’ve never seen the movie Super Mario Brothers, but the Mario character was a big part […]
AMERICAN GIALLO: Sliver (1993)
Remember Joe Eszterhas? The writer who pretty much owned the theaters in the late 80’s and early 90’s with films like Flashdance, Basic Instinct, Jade and Showgirls? In addition to Sliver, at least two of the films above — Basic Instinct and Jade — could qualify as giallo-style films. When reviewed through the lens of 2018, his films seem puerile at worst and silly […]
STEPHEN KING WEEK: Needful Things (1993)
Leland Gaunt has come the whole way from Akron to Castle Rock to open an antique store called “Needful Things.” Everything he sells gives you exactly what you want, but you need to pay him back with a favor. If that’s not the most Stephen King sentence ever — minus 50’s slang like daddy-o or […]
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