Archives
 
 
 
 
Movie Review
 
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave

Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave

On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[A...

 
 
Movie Review
 
Mindwarp
Mindwarp
Mindwarp

Blu-ray Movie Review: Mindwarp

Mindwarp, a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi gore film produced by Fangoria Magazine in 1992, is a cup half-full, cup half-empty proposition. In the plus column, it stars Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead) and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm), two ...

 
 
Movie Review
 
The Other
The Other
The Other

Blu-ray Movie Review: The Other

Ostensibly The Other (1972) could be lumped in with several other “bad seed” movies that popped up during the 1970s like Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen. But writer Thomas Tryon’s screenplay (based on his own novel)...