Monthly Archives: October 2011
Retro Review: Scary Movie 4
It has been 26 years since, 1980’s “Airplane!” which unleashed a brand of comedy that is still embraced to this day. That film took parody and slapstick to a new level in motion pictures. Now one of the creative forces behind that landmark film, director David Zucker returns to silver screen. He single-handly turned around [...]
Retro Review: Scary Movie 3
Hands down, my favorite comedy of all time is 1980’s “Airplane!” which was conceived by the comedy writing team of ZAZ or David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. ZAZ were responsible for some of the funniest films of the past 20 years. From the “Naked Gun” series to the “Hot Shots” movies to 2001’s [...]
Retro Review: Scary Movie 2
The Wayans are back. They are here to kick the horror genre where it counts, again. Just how low will the Wayans Brothers go? “Scary Movie 2”, the sequel to the $150 million dollar surprise of last summer, follows four teens who are tricked by their professor into visiting a haunted house for a school [...]
Retro Review: Scary Movie
Those infamous Wayan Brothers attack the teen slasher flicks of the past 7 years. Somebody had to. “Scary Movie” follows the exploits of Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) and friends who seem to be stalked by a serial killer. Only this time there are laughs, shocks, and total lunacy as we wonder who will live and [...]
Movie Review: The Mummy (1959)
They just don’t make movies like this anymore. A monster who stalks his prey to carry out bloody vengeance. There was innocence always contained in Mummy films where even though the Mummy would walk around in society it was never really explained. I liked Mummy movies because of the curses and well that The Mummy [...]
Movie Review: Dracula (1958)
When Hammer Films went to remake Dracula just a year after their huge success with “Curse of Frankenstein” they turned to the creative force behind that previously successful film. Director Terence Fisher returned as well as screenwriter Jimmy Sangster. Fisher and Sangster are two of the unrecognized forces behind the Hammer Horror boom. They had [...]
Movie Review: Curse of Frankenstein
It was the movie that started it all. It rejuvenated a studio in bankruptcy, sparked a life long friendship for the stars, brought two respected British actors to worldwide fame and renewed a generation’s interest in the macabre. 1957′s “The Curse of Frankenstein” was a retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic tale of a scientist (Peter [...]
Movie Review: The Curse of the Werewolf
Founded in 1934, Hammer Films started out as a small independent British film studio. It went through many growing pains including at one point bankruptcy between 1934 and 1955. It wasn’t until the studio turned to resurrecting the horror film that it started to make a long-standing imprint on horror films as we know them. [...]
Retro Review: Bandidas
Surprisingly, Bandidas is a cute little western that pays homage to the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. Bandidas stars Salma Hayek, as Maria, a rich Mexican socialite and Penelope Cruz as Sara, a desperate farmer’s daughter. Maria and Sara are brought together in turn of the century Mexico when a ruthless overseer (Dwight Yoakum) begins [...]
Retro Review: Metropolis
In the 1940’s animation visionary Osamu Tezuka wrote a little graphic novel that brought about the dawn of a new era in animation and comics. That graphic novel is “Metropolis” and it inspired legions of cartoon creators. Tezuka has been dubbed the godfather of “anime” and “manga” and still influences animators and comic enthusiasts today. [...]
