Cul-De-Sac
Two criminals on the run make their way to an 11th century castle where a couple (Roman Polanski, Françoise Dorléac) lives and decide to stay there while waiting for help to arrive. A quaint little...
View ArticleYou Only Live Twice
… And twice is the only way to live! An orchestrated attempt to jump-start a war between the two superpowers is made by attacking their space rockets; British intelligence sources believe the answer...
View ArticleHalloween: Stalked By the Boogeyman
The night HE came home! Much is simple about John Carpenter’s Halloween. It didn’t cost much to make. The story is very straight-forward, the actors were not stars (except the veteran Donald...
View ArticleGreat Escape: Dig Till You Drop
PUT A FENCE IN FRONT OF THESE MEN… AND THEY’LL CLIMB IT… It may be hard to believe that there is a real-life story behind such a classic and typically Hollywood movie as The Great Escape, but there...
View ArticleOh, God!
IT’S AN ALMIGHTY LAUGH! God is tired of how people ignore His message and appears as an old man (George Burns) to an assistant supermarket manager (John Denver) who becomes a modern Moses. A hit movie...
View ArticleThe Last Tycoon
HE HAS THE POWER TO MAKE ANYONE’S DREAM COME TRUE… EXCEPT HIS OWN. In the 1930s, Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro) is the youngest and most successful studio executive in Hollywood, but he becomes...
View ArticleA Tedious Tome Turned Into a Miniseries
I recently finished Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” and felt utterly frustrated. A historical novel, the book covers 35 years in the life of Thomas Cromwell, the lawyer who became chief minister to King...
View ArticleDracula
THROUGHOUT HISTORY HE HAS FILLED THE HEARTS OF MEN WITH TERROR, AND THE HEARTS OF WOMEN WITH DESIRE. Whitby, England, 1913; the Romanian count Dracula (Frank Langella) is moving into a newly purchased...
View ArticlePrince of Darkness
WHERE ARE YOU…? CHRIST? A priest (Donald Pleasence) invites a professor (Victor Wong) and several students to examine a mysterious cylinder at an abandoned L.A. church; the liquid inside turns out to...
View ArticleMy 12 Favorite Horror Movies
Halloween is coming, and the dead shall rise from their graves. At least on a TV screen near you. We are awash in lists of the greatest horror movies ever made, and everybody’s trying to come up with a...
View ArticleCreepers
JENNIFER HAS A FEW MILLION CLOSE FRIENDS. SHE’S GOING TO NEED THEM ALL. The teenage daughter (Jennifer Connelly) of an American movie star is sent to a Swiss boarding school where a murderer is running...
View ArticleCul-De-Sac
Two criminals on the run make their way to an 11th century castle where a couple (Roman Polanski, Françoise Dorléac) lives and decide to stay there while waiting for help to arrive. A quaint little...
View ArticleJesus of Nazareth: The Ultimate Christ
This miniseries, a global event at its premiere, was a big deal when I was a kid. Every Easter, it was shown on TV and I found it an overwhelming experience, in no small part I’m sure because of my...
View ArticleHalloween II
IT’S NOT ONLY A MURDERER… IT’S AN INDESTRUCTIBLE TERROR! As Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is taken to a hospital after Michael Myers’s attack, dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) and the police try to...
View ArticleHalloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
TEN YEARS AGO HE CHANGED THE FACE OF HALLOWEEN. TONIGHT HE’S BACK! Michael Myers wakes up from a ten-year coma, escapes and targets his niece (Danielle Harris); dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is once...
View ArticleHalloween 5
HE’S BACK WITH A VENGEANCE. One year after escaping from the police, Michael Myers has been nursed back to health and tries one more time to find his niece (Danielle Harris)… A direct sequel to the...
View ArticleHalloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
EVERYONE KNOWS THE NAME. NOW, EVERYONE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH. Michael Myers is on the hunt for his niece and her newborn baby; dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is convinced to come out of retirement. The...
View ArticleBlood Relatives
THE MOST INTIMATE ACT OF ALL IS… MURDER! Montreal cop Steve Carella (Donald Sutherland) investigates a case where two young cousins were attacked by a knifeman in an alley; one of them, Patricia (Aude...
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