Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Congo 1995

  ★★★½ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

  It's been awhile...I've been busy with some personal projects...but I haven't stopped watching (or collecting) movies! Going to try and get back to these with more regularity.

  Following the runaway success of JURASSIC PARK (1993), Hollywood took away two things:

  1) Big effects driven Summer Blockbusters had the potential to be MASSIVE money makers.

  2) That people really dug Michael Crichton (or...so they thought).

  As a result, Hollywood quickly moved to make bigger, louder, more spectacular summer tentpoles...and were quick…

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  Forbidden World 1982

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Dec 2024

  The third of the so-called 'Corman Space Trilogy' which is made up of BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, GALAXY OF TERROR, and this film...FORBIDDEN WORLD (aka MUTANT). The three films are not connected by any narrative strands, but rather by the reuses of resources from all three films; models, footage, sets, and costumes.

  The genesis of MUTANT (I'll refer to the film by it's original name, and the cut I watched is actually director Allan Holzman's original vision) is utterly fascinating…

Popular reviews

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  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Sep 2024 1

  THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 (or however it is meant to be spelt :P ) is a movie I've heard about through cultural osmosis for a long time, but never had opportunity or, admittedly, desire to see until I recently came across KINO LORBER's excellent blu-ray release.

  I was utterly SHOCKED to discover that this wasn't a straight suspense/thriller about a hostage situation and heist...but a film that deftly weaves in comedy in a way that feels so utterly ORGANIC…

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  Roadgames 1981

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2024 3

  The last of the early Jamie Lee Curtis Scream Queen era movies, and probably the best of them (though her part is a little smaller in this one, I think the overall quality of the material and her performance still stands out, as does her incredible chemistry with the lead, Stacy Keach), ROAD GAMES is billed as, "Hitchcock in the Outback", and that is not hyperbole...I can definitely see how this film lead to Australian director Richard Franklin getting the…