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Basic Instinct (1992)

In 1992, BASIC INSTINCT stirred up both controversy and big box office results with its blend of cop thriller, graphic sex and bloody violence. Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, Black Rain) is in great form as San Francisco police detective Nick Curran, called in to investigate the brutal ice pick murder of a former rock star/current philanthropist. When the trail leads to the rocker's girlfriend Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) the mystery begins. Catherine is possessed of wealth beyond...

OTHER MOMMY needed other writers. Derivative, nearly a remake of "Poltergeist" and even weaker than the lame 2015 remake that's already a travesty against the 1982 original, MOMMY brags that it has nearly 50 jump scares. I counted about five. Director Rob Savage tries to wrap every scene in spooky, distracting camera angles and dread, but it's just kind of exhausting waiting for something to happen. I don't blame young actress Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid) as Bela, the young daughter...

The posters for VERITY boldly pronounce, "There is no light where we are going." For full transparency, it should have also added "and no human dialogue and an incredibly impossible story with plot holes the size of New Jersey". I so wanted this film to be a 2020's version of the superb erotic thrillers of the 80's like "Basic Instinct" and "Jagged Edge". It's just begging for a smooth Jerry Goldsmith music score. Alas. We meet writer Lowen Ashleigh (a fine Dakota Johnson) whose author...

Is there anything more reliable these days than how enjoyable the latest Jason Statham action flick will be? MUTINY is another cracking thriller, packed with fast paced action, a rip-roaring revenge story and just the right amount of drama behind the thrills. Statham is on a roll the past few years, delivering exactly what we expect and count on every. single. time. Since 2024, he's served up "The Beekeeper", "A Working Man", "Shelter" and now this Die-Hard-on-the-high-seas that...

Sitting through Inarritu's excruciating new film DIGGER is like being locked in a lecture hall with a smug, angry, ageist, America-hating professor who hits you over the head with their same opinion over and over again for 129 minutes, while a boombox in the corner plays the most excruciating accompanying music you can imagine. But wait! It's supposed to be funny satire! When you talk about film satire to me, I think about Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" or Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital" or...

Shouting that Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL is the best RE film ever isn't loud enough. It's the goriest body horror flick since John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the best video game adaption I've ever seen. That's mostly a tribute to the fact that he's not trying to create a first-player game for the big screen. Cregger creates a hilarious, suspenseful, well-shot horror thriller that weaves in some incredible references to the game while carving out an experience very much his own. I laughed...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas

Jaw dropping. WOW. One of a kind. I could list twenty more superlatives and they wouldn't begin to capture the experience of seeing the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ at The Sphere in Las Vegas. I should preface my take with the fact that I've never been a big fan of the film. Surely it was a yearly TV tradition in the sixties, where my family would gather to watch it in front of our 19" color TV. In my youngest years, that damn witch would scare the hell out of me, along with her squadron of...

Basic Instinct (1992)

In 1992, BASIC INSTINCT stirred up both controversy and big box office results with its blend of cop thriller, graphic sex and bloody violence. Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, Black Rain) is in great form as San Francisco police detective Nick Curran, called in to investigate the brutal ice pick murder of a former rock star/current philanthropist. When the trail leads to the rocker's girlfriend Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) the mystery begins. Catherine is possessed of wealth beyond...

OTHER MOMMY needed other writers. Derivative, nearly a remake of "Poltergeist" and even weaker than the lame 2015 remake that's already a travesty against the 1982 original, MOMMY brags that it has nearly 50 jump scares. I counted about five. Director Rob Savage tries to wrap every scene in spooky, distracting camera angles and dread, but it's just kind of exhausting waiting for something to happen. I don't blame young actress Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid) as Bela, the young daughter...

The posters for VERITY boldly pronounce, "There is no light where we are going." For full transparency, it should have also added "and no human dialogue and an incredibly impossible story with plot holes the size of New Jersey". I so wanted this film to be a 2020's version of the superb erotic thrillers of the 80's like "Basic Instinct" and "Jagged Edge". It's just begging for a smooth Jerry Goldsmith music score. Alas. We meet writer Lowen Ashleigh (a fine Dakota Johnson) whose author...

Is there anything more reliable these days than how enjoyable the latest Jason Statham action flick will be? MUTINY is another cracking thriller, packed with fast paced action, a rip-roaring revenge story and just the right amount of drama behind the thrills. Statham is on a roll the past few years, delivering exactly what we expect and count on every. single. time. Since 2024, he's served up "The Beekeeper", "A Working Man", "Shelter" and now this Die-Hard-on-the-high-seas that...

Sitting through Inarritu's excruciating new film DIGGER is like being locked in a lecture hall with a smug, angry, ageist, America-hating professor who hits you over the head with their same opinion over and over again for 129 minutes, while a boombox in the corner plays the most excruciating accompanying music you can imagine. But wait! It's supposed to be funny satire! When you talk about film satire to me, I think about Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" or Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital" or...

Shouting that Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL is the best RE film ever isn't loud enough. It's the goriest body horror flick since John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the best video game adaption I've ever seen. That's mostly a tribute to the fact that he's not trying to create a first-player game for the big screen. Cregger creates a hilarious, suspenseful, well-shot horror thriller that weaves in some incredible references to the game while carving out an experience very much his own. I laughed...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas

Jaw dropping. WOW. One of a kind. I could list twenty more superlatives and they wouldn't begin to capture the experience of seeing the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ at The Sphere in Las Vegas. I should preface my take with the fact that I've never been a big fan of the film. Surely it was a yearly TV tradition in the sixties, where my family would gather to watch it in front of our 19" color TV. In my youngest years, that damn witch would scare the hell out of me, along with her squadron of...

Basic Instinct (1992)

In 1992, BASIC INSTINCT stirred up both controversy and big box office results with its blend of cop thriller, graphic sex and bloody violence. Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, Black Rain) is in great form as San Francisco police detective Nick Curran, called in to investigate the brutal ice pick murder of a former rock star/current philanthropist. When the trail leads to the rocker's girlfriend Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) the mystery begins. Catherine is possessed of wealth beyond...

OTHER MOMMY needed other writers. Derivative, nearly a remake of "Poltergeist" and even weaker than the lame 2015 remake that's already a travesty against the 1982 original, MOMMY brags that it has nearly 50 jump scares. I counted about five. Director Rob Savage tries to wrap every scene in spooky, distracting camera angles and dread, but it's just kind of exhausting waiting for something to happen. I don't blame young actress Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid) as Bela, the young daughter...

The posters for VERITY boldly pronounce, "There is no light where we are going." For full transparency, it should have also added "and no human dialogue and an incredibly impossible story with plot holes the size of New Jersey". I so wanted this film to be a 2020's version of the superb erotic thrillers of the 80's like "Basic Instinct" and "Jagged Edge". It's just begging for a smooth Jerry Goldsmith music score. Alas. We meet writer Lowen Ashleigh (a fine Dakota Johnson) whose author...

Is there anything more reliable these days than how enjoyable the latest Jason Statham action flick will be? MUTINY is another cracking thriller, packed with fast paced action, a rip-roaring revenge story and just the right amount of drama behind the thrills. Statham is on a roll the past few years, delivering exactly what we expect and count on every. single. time. Since 2024, he's served up "The Beekeeper", "A Working Man", "Shelter" and now this Die-Hard-on-the-high-seas that...

Sitting through Inarritu's excruciating new film DIGGER is like being locked in a lecture hall with a smug, angry, ageist, America-hating professor who hits you over the head with their same opinion over and over again for 129 minutes, while a boombox in the corner plays the most excruciating accompanying music you can imagine. But wait! It's supposed to be funny satire! When you talk about film satire to me, I think about Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" or Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital" or...

Shouting that Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL is the best RE film ever isn't loud enough. It's the goriest body horror flick since John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the best video game adaption I've ever seen. That's mostly a tribute to the fact that he's not trying to create a first-player game for the big screen. Cregger creates a hilarious, suspenseful, well-shot horror thriller that weaves in some incredible references to the game while carving out an experience very much his own. I laughed...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas

Jaw dropping. WOW. One of a kind. I could list twenty more superlatives and they wouldn't begin to capture the experience of seeing the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ at The Sphere in Las Vegas. I should preface my take with the fact that I've never been a big fan of the film. Surely it was a yearly TV tradition in the sixties, where my family would gather to watch it in front of our 19" color TV. In my youngest years, that damn witch would scare the hell out of me, along with her squadron of...

Basic Instinct (1992)

In 1992, BASIC INSTINCT stirred up both controversy and big box office results with its blend of cop thriller, graphic sex and bloody violence. Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, Black Rain) is in great form as San Francisco police detective Nick Curran, called in to investigate the brutal ice pick murder of a former rock star/current philanthropist. When the trail leads to the rocker's girlfriend Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) the mystery begins. Catherine is possessed of wealth beyond...

OTHER MOMMY needed other writers. Derivative, nearly a remake of "Poltergeist" and even weaker than the lame 2015 remake that's already a travesty against the 1982 original, MOMMY brags that it has nearly 50 jump scares. I counted about five. Director Rob Savage tries to wrap every scene in spooky, distracting camera angles and dread, but it's just kind of exhausting waiting for something to happen. I don't blame young actress Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid) as Bela, the young daughter...

The posters for VERITY boldly pronounce, "There is no light where we are going." For full transparency, it should have also added "and no human dialogue and an incredibly impossible story with plot holes the size of New Jersey". I so wanted this film to be a 2020's version of the superb erotic thrillers of the 80's like "Basic Instinct" and "Jagged Edge". It's just begging for a smooth Jerry Goldsmith music score. Alas. We meet writer Lowen Ashleigh (a fine Dakota Johnson) whose author...

Is there anything more reliable these days than how enjoyable the latest Jason Statham action flick will be? MUTINY is another cracking thriller, packed with fast paced action, a rip-roaring revenge story and just the right amount of drama behind the thrills. Statham is on a roll the past few years, delivering exactly what we expect and count on every. single. time. Since 2024, he's served up "The Beekeeper", "A Working Man", "Shelter" and now this Die-Hard-on-the-high-seas that...

Sitting through Inarritu's excruciating new film DIGGER is like being locked in a lecture hall with a smug, angry, ageist, America-hating professor who hits you over the head with their same opinion over and over again for 129 minutes, while a boombox in the corner plays the most excruciating accompanying music you can imagine. But wait! It's supposed to be funny satire! When you talk about film satire to me, I think about Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" or Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital" or...

Shouting that Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL is the best RE film ever isn't loud enough. It's the goriest body horror flick since John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the best video game adaption I've ever seen. That's mostly a tribute to the fact that he's not trying to create a first-player game for the big screen. Cregger creates a hilarious, suspenseful, well-shot horror thriller that weaves in some incredible references to the game while carving out an experience very much his own. I laughed...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas

Jaw dropping. WOW. One of a kind. I could list twenty more superlatives and they wouldn't begin to capture the experience of seeing the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ at The Sphere in Las Vegas. I should preface my take with the fact that I've never been a big fan of the film. Surely it was a yearly TV tradition in the sixties, where my family would gather to watch it in front of our 19" color TV. In my youngest years, that damn witch would scare the hell out of me, along with her squadron of...

Basic Instinct (1992)

In 1992, BASIC INSTINCT stirred up both controversy and big box office results with its blend of cop thriller, graphic sex and bloody violence. Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, Black Rain) is in great form as San Francisco police detective Nick Curran, called in to investigate the brutal ice pick murder of a former rock star/current philanthropist. When the trail leads to the rocker's girlfriend Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) the mystery begins. Catherine is possessed of wealth beyond...

OTHER MOMMY needed other writers. Derivative, nearly a remake of "Poltergeist" and even weaker than the lame 2015 remake that's already a travesty against the 1982 original, MOMMY brags that it has nearly 50 jump scares. I counted about five. Director Rob Savage tries to wrap every scene in spooky, distracting camera angles and dread, but it's just kind of exhausting waiting for something to happen. I don't blame young actress Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid) as Bela, the young daughter...

The posters for VERITY boldly pronounce, "There is no light where we are going." For full transparency, it should have also added "and no human dialogue and an incredibly impossible story with plot holes the size of New Jersey". I so wanted this film to be a 2020's version of the superb erotic thrillers of the 80's like "Basic Instinct" and "Jagged Edge". It's just begging for a smooth Jerry Goldsmith music score. Alas. We meet writer Lowen Ashleigh (a fine Dakota Johnson) whose author...

Is there anything more reliable these days than how enjoyable the latest Jason Statham action flick will be? MUTINY is another cracking thriller, packed with fast paced action, a rip-roaring revenge story and just the right amount of drama behind the thrills. Statham is on a roll the past few years, delivering exactly what we expect and count on every. single. time. Since 2024, he's served up "The Beekeeper", "A Working Man", "Shelter" and now this Die-Hard-on-the-high-seas that...

Sitting through Inarritu's excruciating new film DIGGER is like being locked in a lecture hall with a smug, angry, ageist, America-hating professor who hits you over the head with their same opinion over and over again for 129 minutes, while a boombox in the corner plays the most excruciating accompanying music you can imagine. But wait! It's supposed to be funny satire! When you talk about film satire to me, I think about Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" or Paddy Chayefsky's "The Hospital" or...

Shouting that Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL is the best RE film ever isn't loud enough. It's the goriest body horror flick since John Carpenter's "The Thing" and the best video game adaption I've ever seen. That's mostly a tribute to the fact that he's not trying to create a first-player game for the big screen. Cregger creates a hilarious, suspenseful, well-shot horror thriller that weaves in some incredible references to the game while carving out an experience very much his own. I laughed...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas

Jaw dropping. WOW. One of a kind. I could list twenty more superlatives and they wouldn't begin to capture the experience of seeing the 1939 classic THE WIZARD OF OZ at The Sphere in Las Vegas. I should preface my take with the fact that I've never been a big fan of the film. Surely it was a yearly TV tradition in the sixties, where my family would gather to watch it in front of our 19" color TV. In my youngest years, that damn witch would scare the hell out of me, along with her squadron of...

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