By Wayne C. Rogers Directed by Antoine Fuqua For me, The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington was probably the best all around action movie of the year, just edging out John Wick with Keanu Reeves in it. The reason it beat out John Wick was because this is also a thinking […]
Movie Reviews
Re-Animator (1985) – ZOMBIES & MORE HORROR MOVIE REVIEW
By Melissa Ann It has been 30 years since we were introduced to the brilliantly mad Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) in Re-Animator. With a budget of just under a million dollars, director and writer Stuart Gordon created a movie that is loved by horror fans decades later and considered to […]
Executive Decision (1996) – Kurt Russell, Halle Berry & Steven Seagal AIRPLANE TERRORIST ACTION MOVIE REVIEW
By Geno McGahee In the 1980s, the action movies usually featured a one-man force that would beat all the bad guys single-handily. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal made that style of film incredibly popular and enjoyable. In 1988, one film would […]
Stephen King’s A Good Marriage (2014) – HORROR MOVIE REVIEW
By Wayne C. Rogers Starring Joan Allen and Anthony LaPaglia Directed by Peter Askin Based on a screenplay by Stephen King I was certainly intrigued by the trailers for the film of A Good Marriage. I’d read the novella in Stephen King’s collection, Full Dark and No Stars, and loved […]
Odd Thomas – HORROR MOVIE REVIEW
By Wayne C. Rogers Starring Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin and Wilem Dafoe Directed by Stephen Sommers I had been waiting to see the “Odd Thomas” movie for well over two years. I anticipated seeing it on the big screen in 2013, but that wasn’t to be because of legal issues […]
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Lake (1989) – HORROR TV REVIEW
By Geno McGahee Lakes can be creepy and that is the setting for the 1989 Ray Bradbury Theater episode titled “THE LAKE.” Everyone has known somebody that has drowned at a lake and it is especially tragic when it’s a child. In this episode, we visit the death of […]
Don’t Go to the Reunion (2013) – 1980’s Slasher Style HORROR MOVIE REVIEW
By Geno McGahee The 1980s was a very special time for horror films. It was the slasher boom and the villain with the mask and motive was unleashed. The whodunit horror of that time was so much fun, with films like MY BLOODY VALENTINE, PIECES, THE PROWLER, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO […]
The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth – HORROR BOOK REVIEW
By Wayne C. Rogers Doubleday, Trade Paperback, 2015, 304pp The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth is the author’s first novel, and it’s certainly an impressive one to say the least. In some ways the author has reinvented the “horror” genre with this whopper of a story, setting its location […]
Run All Night (2015) – Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Warner Bros. ACTION MOVIE REVIEW
By Geno McGahee The two greatest action stars of all time were Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood. The DIRTY HARRY series and the DEATH WISH franchise defined the genre. The gritty, gun-carrying badass that didn’t need martial arts or explosives to bring his point home was a lost character until […]
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Dwarf (1989) – HORROR TV REVIEW
By Geno McGahee Setting a horror-based story at a carnival is gold, usually. The setting alone can be unsettling. The clowns, the lights and the unusual cast of characters make them an ideal location to tell a scary story. The 1989 episode of the Ray Bradbury Theater, “DWARF,” surrounds such […]
Bandwagon (1996) -A Nostalgic Look Back at 90s Music (Rare 90s Movie)
By Melissa Antoinette Garza Being a child of the 90s, I often romanticize the decade in my head. I like to convince myself what came out of the 90s was better than anything before or after. Maybe that’s because, if not for Nirvana, Live, Soul Asylum, Rage Against the Machine, […]
Kickboxer 5: The Redemption (1995) – Mark Dacascos ACTION MOVIE REVIEW
By Geno McGahee The fifth and final entry in the KICKBOXER series (I think) is arguably the best since the first entry. It may not have been written to be one of the series, which is my suspicion, but they tied it in. David Sloan, played by Sasha Mitchell, had […]