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My full take: - Of all the competitors to Johnny Carson's talk show throne, none flamed out quite so ignominiously as Jack Delroy, who, on Halloween 1977, saw his career end. Delroy is, of course, a fictional character created by the Cairnes brothers, Colin and Cameron, who wrote and...

No doubt, it's a bit of a cheat, but it is acknowledged.

It's a bit blink and you'll miss it, but the behind the scenes documentary footage is mentioned as a part of what happened that evening.

It's now streaming on Shudder, AMC & Roku Channel. It's Eerie and well produced. Saw this one in a theater and my hats off to the Aussie filmmakers who clearly did their research recreating the look and feel of American late night TV in the 1970s. Full review to follow, just wanted to give a...

Theodore J. Flicker's PRESIDENT'S ANALYST is a truly unique film of the era. It features some terrific and prescient subversive material. Flicker's screenplay mixes spies, conspiracies and a dash of sci-fi in a darkly amusing paranoia stew. The second half of the film suffers from a bit of...

Certainly didn't endear her to the judge when she was quoted from her jailhouse conversations that was more concerned about her "modeling career" than what she had done

Yes, because they couldn't prove where the live round came from - hence the lighter sentence than she would have gotten if they could prove chain of custody. That's what I meant

Nope. NO evidence of intent at all. Just incompetence on the part of the Armorer who is now jailed. Negligence wouldn't make for a very interesting episode at all

Proper justice. If anything, she got away too lightly with 18 months

John Sayles' charming film adaptation of a 50s novel by Rosalie K. Fry about an out of the way isle where the mythical Selkies are said to wander. Haskell Wexler's cinematography is lovely as is Mason Daring's music. The film received glowing reviews but never quite got the audience it...

I can certainly see FORBIDDEN PLANET and THIS ISLAND EARTH getting the 4K treatment. The other two - probably not any time soon. They just don't have the marquee value, although 27TH DAY should be more seen.

Remembering Barbara Rush, who passed away this week.... Jack Arnold's seminal film, based on a Ray Bradbury story really set a standard for a lot of 50s sci-fi cinema. The isolated location. A mysterious object in the sky. Alien takeovers. The man of science who nobody believes. And, of course...

JOE FLAHERTY's passing today is incredibly sad for me. SCTV is one of the greatest influences on me in comedy. Flaherty was a key member playing the mythical channel's Station Manager Guy Caballero - he made an unlikeable character bearable and, most importantly, hysterically funny. Sammy...

Size & Budget Do NOT Matter

Kurosawa's brilliant adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom. Kurosawa and his team of writers successfully transposed the story to Japan and created an original framework. The structure is superb with the viewer's expectations challenged with some surprising turns. Toshiro Mifune leads the...

my full take on it: SKINAMARINK (2023) Full marks to Writer-Director Kyle Edward Ball. He came up with a concept and doggedly keeps to it, with virtually no concessions to his viewers. SKINAMARINK (named after a similarly titled old nursery rhyme) is an experimental arthouse horror...

When DUNE Part One debuted, I gave it a grade of 'Incomplete'. It was decent, well-mounted, but there wasn't enough that was definitive to give it final marks. With Part Two, Director Denis Villenueve earns a solid passing grade. After a brief prologue, which introduces Florence Pugh as...

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING Pt.1 (2023) The Mission Impossible series is a bit of an anomaly in that it didn't really hit its stride until the fourth entry (GHOST PROTOCOL). Unfortunately, DEAD RECKONING is a step back to the bad old days of the franchise with its haphazard plotting and...

Hayao Miyazaki's return to filmmaking after a 'retirement' revisits some of the same themes and visual trademarks from his legendary animation career. It's a work that longtime fans might appreciate a bit more than casual ones. The semi-autobiographical tale about a young boy, Mahito, who...

When the pre-release buzz is about how a 149 minute theatrical release is just the teaser for a four-hour streaming cut, one can't help but be wary going in. Unfortunately, that wariness is mostly warranted in this “shortened” version of Ridley Scott's take on the life of the famed French...