Panther was the first Mario Van Peebles movie I saw after New Jack City. It came out at a weird time when Orion folded and then a litany of other mini studios started dumpster diving on their unreleas...
5 25 77 is a film script I first read when Moonwatcher let me read over a decade ago. I followed it throughout the years, as I wanted to see what became of his work. Hell, it was weird to be like that...
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is a 2019 movie finally getting a proper home video release in the United States. For those overseas, you got Peter Rabbit 2 and the Shaun the Sheep sequel before ...
South Park: The Complete Twenty-Fourth Season dares to thumb its nose at the traps that have befallen The Simpsons, while still angering the right people. What makes it a Complete Twenty-Fourth Season...
Post COVID is the first South Park outing for Paramount Plus. While they followed it up in 2022, the magic kinda went out of the bag with this one. South Park forgoes Seasons for Special Events The ne...
Blood & Diamonds came out at a time in Italian culture where reality and film wasn’t too far off. Upon its major theatrical release, the Italian prime minister Aldo Moro would be kidnapped. ...
Contraband was the only time Lucio Fulci tried to make a Poliziotteschi film. Shot between Zombie and City of the Living Dead, the actual production was a low-key nightmare. So, why did Fulci make Con...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is one of my favorite Merchant Ivory movies. Naturally, it was a bomb that barely made it out of the Arthouse circuit alive. Hell, the theater I saw it at is now a hipster f...
Ticket to Paradise is the kind of romantic comedy that used to dominate the late 1950s and early 1960s. Y’know, that other time where the studio system was slowly dying. Ticket to Paradise is a ...
Back to the Beach is one of those cult classics that deserved the attention given to other kitschy films. So, why did Back to the Beach go so ignored? It was hard to care about Frankie and Annette in ...