Tagline: In Vietnam He Was The Best… HE STILL IS! Entire Story In Fewer Words Than Are In This Sentence: Mike Danton ain’t nuthing ta f’ wit. Homoeroticism: Where to begin… I am probably the first person in history to ever take notes on this particular movie, and no fewer than four pages of those […]
Deadly Prey (1987)

Film Title
Deadly Prey (1987)Synopsis
Sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and release them at their secret camp. Much death and hilarity ensues.
Director
David A. PriorCast
Cameron Mitchell
Troy Donahue
David Campbell
Leo Weltman
Ted Pryor
Fritz Matthews
Top 10 Worst Movies of 2019
How? How could one person see this many terrible movies in one year? Was I perhaps stricken with some mysterious curse? The answer is much simpler: cinematic masochism. Yes, I spent last year seeking out the worst movies I could find every bit as voraciously as I sought out the best, as I do every […]
Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2019
As always, it is important to stress that this list is a compilation of my ten personal favorite movies of the year, and not necessarily the “best,” though I do consider the top three to be timeless, unassailable classics. The bottom three are, on the other hand, a few that I feel have not gotten […]
The Haunting Of Sharon Tate

Film Title
The Haunting of Sharon TateSynopsis
Sharon Tate is haunted by visions of her imminent demise
Director
Daniel FerrandsCast
Hilary Duff
Jonathan Bennett
Lydia Hurst
Pawel Szajda
Ryan Cargill
Ben Mellish
The Asylum is best known (infamous, really) for churning out lower budget, lower quality versions of the most popular Hollywood movies under intentionally confusing titles like Age of the Hobbits or Transmorphers (the latter of which actually has more in common with The Terminator and Matrix movies than with Transformers, in plot if not quality; […]
Parasite (2019)

Film Title
Parasite (2019)Synopsis
The Haves and the Have Nots
Director
Bong Joon-HoCast
Kang ho-Song
Yeo-jeong Jo
So dam-Park
Woo-sik Choi
Sun-kyun Lee
Until the night I saw Parasite, I had been struggling to decide what my favorite movie so far this year has been. There have been many contenders, from highly anticipated sequels like John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum and Avengers: Endgame to wild, weird arthouse flicks like Midsommar and Relaxer, not to mention the feature film […]
The Human Centipede III (2015)

Film Title
The Human Centipede IIISynopsis
Just one more reason to try to stay out of prison
Director
Tom SixCast
Dieter Laser
Laurence R. Harvey
Eric Roberts
Robert LaSardo
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister!
Bree Olson
Clayton Rohner
Akihiro Kitamura
As both of my readers might know, I work at an indie/art-house movie theater in New York City. What you might not know, and might even find surprising, is that that is the type of venue at which the pretty much universally reviled Human Centipede movies get their theatrical exhibitions. The first one was kind […]
Toning Down the Terror: Another look at Stephen King at the Movies
Few authors in the 20th century (or any time, for that matter) have been more frequently adapted for the movies than the favorite son of Maine, Stephen King. This Halloween season, I wanted to offer a look at some (not nearly all) of those movie adaptations and the ways in which certain elements were changed […]
Midsommar (2019)

Film Title
Midsommar (2019)Synopsis
A trip to Sweden turns into a nightmare
Director
Ari AsterCast
Florence Pugh
Jack Reynor
Vilhelm Blomgren
William Jackson Harper
Will Poulter
Archie Madekwe
Gunnel Fred
Isabell Grill
Mats Blomgren
Ari Aster’s first film, Hereditary, had a trailer that was impossible to avoid for about six months leading up to its release. I must have seen it at least two dozen times. With every claim that it was the scariest movie to come along in decades, anticipation grew, and some degree of disappointment became more […]
Yesterday (2019)

Film Title
Yesterday (2019)Synopsis
In an alternate universe, everyone has forgotten The Beatles. Everyone needs to forget this movie instead.
Director
Danny BoyleCast
Himesh Patel
Lily James
Joel Fry
Ed Sheeran
Sophia Di Martino
Ellise Chappell
Near the end of Hot Tub Time Machine (spoiler alert for a movie that is nearly ten years old and way better than the one I am currently reviewing), there was this plot device. The Craig Robinson character, Nick, used his knowledge of the pop music of his revisited youth to reinvent himself as a […]