Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film (if you count the who volumes of Kill Bill as one entity), Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (called OUATIH from here on out), is both different than anything he’s done before...
Category: Thriller
Shaft (2019)
Not to get too confusing, but the 2019 version of Shaft is actually a sequel to the John Singleton’s 2000 version, Shaft, and, due to the appearance of Richard Roundtree, we find that both of...
Near Dark (1987)
1987 would see two vampire movies released, Near Dark and The Lost Boys, and while the latter would earn the money and the fan base, it is the former that won the respect of the critics and...
I Am Mother (2019)
I Am Mother is a thoughtful but taut science-fiction thriller from director Grant Sputore, who, along with screenwriter Michael Lloyd Green, concocted this futuristic tale with a more modest budget in mind, given that...
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (1: the name of a type of gun, 2: literally means “to prepare for war”) spins off its plot from something that happens in the second chapter, namely...
Blade Runner (1982)
The date is November 2019. The city is Los Angeles. Earth has undergone massive population explosions in the urban areas, the city landscape is a mish-mash of every culture, and almost everywhere you go...
Trancers (1984/1985)
B-movie maestro Charles Band directs this low-budget sci-fi blending of Blade Runner, The Terminator, James Bond flicks, the John D. MacDonald novel “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything” (which had been adapted into...
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (2019)
The personal life of smooth-talking, gas-lighting sociopath Ted Bundy gets put into the spotlight in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (which takes its name from a quote by the judge in describing the...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Arnold famously said, in one of his few bits of dialogue from 1984’s The Terminator, “I’ll be back”. Seven years later, his words would prove true, as the sequel to the hit low-budget flick, which...
The Terminator (1984)
The simple premise: A killer android (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back to 1984 to assassinate the mother (Linda Hamilton) of a resistance leader of the future. A soldier of that resistance (Michael Biehn) is also...