COWBOYS, CLOCKS, AND CALCULATED CASH-GRABS Well, they finally did it. They sent the kid with the puffy vest to the one place I actually wouldn’t mind visiting if it weren’t…
FUTURE TENSE AND PAST IMPERFECT If you thought the first movie was a headache, grab some aspirin and sit down. This “sequel” (a word Hollywood uses to describe “give us…
HILL VALLEY OR HILL NO? If you went to the movie theater in 1985 like I did, you were likely to see a crowd of teenagers wearing neon vests and…
Preview: A Southern Fried Mess In an era where “entertainment” usually involves a teenager dancing for thirty seconds on a telephone screen, director Michael Diliberti brings us Bad Man (2025).…
A Chaotic Quest to Save the Future: Verbinski’s Wild Return Director Gore Verbinski, the man who gave us those pirate movies and that creepy girl in the well, is back…
In a near‑future where vampires are the dominant species, humans are farmed for blood and those deprived of it mutate into feral “subsiders.” Edward, (Ethan Hawke) a vampire scientist who…
I usually only review movies, but now that I am doing all of the View Askewverse movies I had to include this lost… ahem gem. As if listening to two…
New Jersey Slackers Take Over the Big Screen In an era where Hollywood usually insists on shoving million-dollar explosions and chiseled jawlines down our throats, a little black-and-white flick out…
Law and Disorder in the Mega-Slums In a world where the air is probably 90% exhaust and people live in “Mega-Blocks” that look like filing cabinets for the poor, comes…
He’s the Judge, the Jury, and the Executioner of my patience—Sylvester Stallone puts on a gold codpiece to prove that in the future, the only thing louder than the explosions…
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