by Peter Nielsen ”An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more….
by Peter Nielsen In 1986 crime was a disease and Marion Cobretti was the cure! It’s an ordinary day and people are minding their own business and doing some shopping, when into the store wanders…
by Peter Nielsen I have a confession to make. I absolutely friggin’ adore the movie Racing with the Moon! It’s one I’ve seen many times and fell in love with the very first time I…
by Jason D. Grooms There are few things more terrifying than an enormous man-eating creature with a penchant for terror and a lust for wanton destruction. It’s even worse when that creature has enormous teeth…
by Peter Nielsen Can you picture Arnold Schwarzenegger in a western? No? Well, in 1979 that’s just what happened. In the Hal Needham-directed movie The Villain, or as it was called here in Europe: Cactus…
Editor’s Note: In light of the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, cinematic essentials looks back at one of the most devastating animated films of all time. If you are not well acquainted with the…
by Joel G. Robertson Lou Ferrigno as Cain? Andy Dick as Abel? And Soupy Sales as… Moses?!? Brilliant! …And God Spoke is a faux-documentary (aka a mockumentary) that chronicles the struggles of two fictitious filmmakers,…
by Jason Grooms Have you ever worked with someone and thought, “I wonder if they have anything interesting or strange in their past or maybe there’s a deeply repressed memory in there somewhere?” Well if…
by Dave Umbricht Sex, politics, religion, and Michael Moore. Four things one should never bring up in a job interview or a polite dinner party. A few years ago, one’s views on Moore’s films said…
by Jason Grooms In a bizarro world where Clint Eastwood forgets how to act, zombies eat their own guts, and being a cowboy means hunting the undead with a bb gun, one man stands alone…