The screenwriter of Scarface and Conan the Barbarian turns his attention to the plight of a strong-willed Vietnamese woman whose life is shaped and molded by war in the 1993 biopic Heaven and Earth, a real outlier in the filmmaker’s otherwise macho filmography.
Read MoreWhy, for the love of all that is holy, is David Bowie in this cockamamie film?
Read MoreMoral ambiguity is the name of the game as Bruce and Terry deal with morally conflicted android Zeta and Stalker, a foe turned ally from their past in my latest look at the cult cartoon Batman Beyond.
Read MoreMad October comes to an appropriately anti-climactic end with 1987’s Zombie High, an initially promising horror-comedy pairing Virginia Madsen with Sherilyn Fenn and future Ghostbusters director Paul Feig that ends up being a whole lot of nothing.
Read MoreMad October continues with a look back at the 1999 fright flick The Haunting, which wastes the pleasing incongruity of Owen Wilson in full-on slacker mode in a horror movie on a bunch of CGI-fueled nonsense.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen takes a spooktacular turn with 1995’s The Prophecy, a very silly movie with a wonderful performance by Christopher Walken as an evil angel.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of Bob Odenkirk continues with the kick ass 2021 action thriller Nobody, which is kind of like John Wick With Bob But Not David.
Read MoreI hate to use phrases like “real stinkeroo” but this one is a real stinkeroo.
Read MoreBack, and to the left.
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