I guess it’s weird to enjoy CRITTERS 2 over “Critters” but I’m that guy. The gore is there, it takes place during Easter and you can count on one hand how many horror flicks take place over the day when Jesus came back. Plus! You have a giant ball made out of Critters, or crites, to be more specific.
This one is a winner!
In this brutal little nugget, we have Snake Plissken, Jack from ‘Lost’, Night Owl and the stepdad in ‘Step Brothers’ on the hunt for a missing girl taken by some nasty troglodytes in BONE TOMAHAWK. Just a glimpse into the neo-grindhouse genius of S. Craig Zahler.
We’re kicking off the Halloween season with what was seen as a huge bomb when it was released but holds up as a creepy crawly good time; ARACHNOPHOBIA.
A TRIP to say the least. “Knife + Heart” takes the classic tropes and psychedelia of Italian giallo but moves it from the comfy confines of a dance school or an apartment in New York and drops you right in the middle of the 1970s gay porn scene.
The violence and sexuality doesn’t pull any punches and it features probably one of the craziest murder weapons I think I’ve ever seen.
The duo of Vanessa Paradis and Nicolas Maury are worth the price of admission.
Even after all these years, there’s still a scent of cheesiness to ABC’s version of “Stephen King’s IT.” Aside from the performance of Tim Curry, part two of 1990’s miniseries lacked the overall creepiness of part one and just seemed like a rush job. Luckily you don’t have to worry about “It Chapter II” being rush because this film takes a while…
While staying much closer to the source material, and not being on network TV, this version of “IT” is a nice IMPROVEMENT from what we got almost 30 years ago, including some very good performances, namely Bill Hader, but you also have Jessica Chastain, who just kind of screams a lot.
But hey, albeit a nearly three house runtime, “IT Chapter II” fully realizes what I’m sure Stephen King envisioned when he first finished his 1,000 page epic…an IMPROVEMENT on what we had before.
As you get older you come to TERMS with many things. One, getting older; Two, time is running out to leave a mark on the world; and maybe even three is the fact that people are simply waiting in the wings to call you out for being a hack or completely undeserving of your success.
For all intents and purposes, I’m talking about Quentin Tarantino’s newest film, “Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood,” and while I might have more quibbles with this film more than his pervious eight (or nine if you include the damn near perfect “Death Proof”) “Hollywood” is a film about a Hollywood in which Tarantino fell in love with in a time where America was, perhaps, as fractured as it is right now.
As in many of QT’s later films, starting with “Inglourious Basterds,” he subverts expectations and creates a world he wants to live in on his own TERMS.
Top to bottom, the performances are great but the pacing drags in parts. We get some fresh foot shots that have been missing from his last couple of films, and you have to love that QT still loves him some feet.
Ultimately, where does this film fall in the Tarantino filmography. We critics love this, we live for these moments where we can tell YOU how good this film is! Sure, lists are super fun, and while I personally put this in my lower 3rd of his filmography, the fact remains that even with his being what I might think one of his “weakest” entires, it’s still better than 98% of films being released on a weekly basis.
I’ve certainly been sitting on this review for a while, but after a fair amount of thought, it was time to say what I think about “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” After the grandeur of “Endgame” the end of MCU’s Phase Three just feels SMALL.
This is of course a film that takes places over four different countries, has dazzling “special effects,” another great villain that ties perfectly into the MCU, but there is still something about it that pales in comparison, and perhaps that’s unfair, but its where we are right now as we enter a new Phase of Marvel films; I’m saying that a Spider-Man film looks SMALL.
This is why people say we can’t have nice things…
It’s an understatement to say seminal hip-hop collective, Wu-Tang Clan, set a standard for all of shows that will come follow at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN after their show on Sunday night.
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Rap groups come and go. Many have an expiration date, I mean just look at most of the groups from the last 90s and 2000s. Record companies chewed them up and spit them out, but hey, it could have also meant they just weren’t very good either.
But as the old adage goes, “Wu-Tang is Forever,” even if it shows how FRACTURED they are after you watch Showtime’s “Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men.”
The four-part series peers behind the curtain during their making of THE SEMINAL hip-hop record of the 90s “Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers” shows how they beat the music system by signing a lucrative record deal for each member, but also shows the dark side of management and how the death of Ol’ Dirty Bastard essentially imploded the group.
It’s a personal look, and plays like an intervention as the group gathers to watch old footage and wax lyrical on their struggles with each other and how the business has changed during their nearly 30 year run.
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