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The secret sauce in Something in the Dirt is NOT in the excavation of heady sci-fi concepts, cultic conspiracy theorizing, and...

Happy to report what to many is probably painfully obvious - on rewatch four decades later, The Thing is STILL a stone cold masterpiece....

One of my great friends gave me the most wonderful gift when it came to Jurassic World: Dominion. He went first to the theater, blazed a...

This review may contain spoilers. One may look at this overall star rating and be tempted to think I’m trashing this film. If he (or she)...

This review may contain spoilers. With The Brood, David Cronenberg stepped boldly into the second phase of his career. Armed with a much...

My best friend hated The Vast of Night. After we had both finished viewing it, a verbal sparring match ensued. I pressed him on what he...

This review may contain spoilers. Not surprisingly, it seems most of the dialogue centered around Possessor at the time of its release...

Plenty of adjectives could be used to describe Ex Machina – eerie, haunting, claustrophic, mind-bending. All are apt, and all convey a...

If I had to construct a thesis for this bad boy, it would read as follows: they just don’t make movies like this anymore. You know the...

It was all there in the beginning. I didn't realize it at first. On first viewing, I took Mad Max for what I thought it was, one hell of...

This review may contain spoilers. Palm Springs does a truly brilliant thing. It stands on the shoulders of the giant that went before it...

Aliens is about as impressive a coming out party as you will ever find for a director. But it is decidedly that. For after the modest...

Are there any original takes for forty plus year old movies? It's kind of hard to imagine, especially for one as airtight as this one....

Though a part of the same cinematic universe, there are worlds of difference between The Terminator and T2. While the latter is massive...

Let's make no bones about it. I WANTED to make this film my number 1. I really waaanted to so bad. Many years I would have. But, top to...