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THE DEAD DON’T DIE

June 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

THE DEAD DON’T DIE takes the tropes, idioms, and beloved foibles of low-budget zombie flicks and, with a skillful flick of its auteur’s cinematic wrist, recontextualizes them into a stylized gloss on the new normal of 2019.  Certainly the “Make America White Again” ball cap sported by the most reviled citizen (Steve Buscemi) of sleepy… Read More »

Tagged With: homage, horror, police, small town, spoof, undead, zombies

THE LOVE WITCH

October 31, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LOVE WITCH

There have been few horror films more delightful that THE LOVE WITCH.  Ostensibly an homage/send-up of mid-century exploitation films that sold social relevance as an excuse for prurient titillation, it combines wicked visual juxtapositions, inspired bad acting, and the oddest burlesque show ever in an inordinately entertaining examination of the perils of waiting for Prince… Read More »

Tagged With: burlesque, coven, homage, occult, pentagram, Prince Charming, red feather boa, spells, witchcraft

GHOSTBUSTERS

July 15, 2016 By 1 Comment

GHOSTBUSTERS

There are many, many things to love about the GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, and one of them is that it is equally good whether you are a fan of the 1984 version, or if you’ve never heard of it.  Director and co-writer (with Katie Dippold) Paul Feig, the man who brought us THE HEAT (co-written with him… Read More »

Tagged With: ghost-hunting, haunting, homage, ley lines, Manhattan, New York City, paranormal, paranormal research, reboot

Don Cheadle is MILES AHEAD

April 5, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Don Cheadle is MILES AHEAD

Don Cheadle had never met any member of Miles Davis’ family when they approached him to make a film about the groundbreaking artist’s life. That’s where I started when I spoke with Cheadle by phone about MILES AHEAD on March 31, 2016. It was one of those kismet stories, that provided a jumping off point… Read More »

Tagged With: AMOST FAMOUS, Cameron Crowe, creative block, crowd funding, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, Donald Paine, Ed Royce, Enough Project, Ewan McGregor, homage, HOTEL RWANDA, jazz, John Prendergast, Keith Jarrett, Kevin Hart, LENNY, Miles Davis, Patrick Fugit, Paul Rusesabagina, Sudan

CREED

November 24, 2015 By 2 Comments

CREED

In many ways, CREED is a formula film, but one done with so much palpable affection and respect on the part of director and co-writer Ryan Coogler for its inspiration, ROCKY, that it’s impossible to not be swept along by it. Expanding that franchise’s universe, he takes it into the next generation by giving Rocky’s… Read More »

Tagged With: boxing, coaching, homage, ROCKY, romance, sequel, title fight, underdog

THE GREEN INFERNO

September 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE GREEN INFERNO

With an Eli Roth film, one should know what one is getting into, as in, an unspeakably unsettling film that will feature violence, gore, and a side of human nature that does not show the species off to its best advantage.

Tagged With: Amazon, Amazonian tribe, cannibalism, corruption, Eli Roth, exploitation, homage, horror, South American

THE WOLFMAN

October 21, 2014 By 2 Comments

THE WOLFMAN

THE WOLFMAN hearkens back with great hope and poor follow-through to Universal’s classic horror films. There is much that is improved in this retelling of the original 1941 flick, and much that suffers a surfeit of technology. The story follows the original’s arc, with Lawrence Talbot suffering the bite of a werewolf, a band of… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, homage, practical effects, remake, Victorian England, werewolf

VAN HELSING

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

VAN HELSING

VAN HELSING is a film that does not do things by halves. One might, in principle, admire the way it pulls out all the stops early on, but the results, a hemorrhaging husk that eventually dissolves into the same sort of dust as the staked vampires that people its running time, prevents admiring it in… Read More »

Tagged With: Frankenstein, homage, horror, s, vampire, werewolves

SLITHER — DVD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SLITHER  — DVD

SLITHER has perhaps the worst poster of any terrific film released in 2006. It may have actually kept people away, what with the way its space slugs converging on a bathtub cradling a classically nubile nymphette. It fails in every respect to convey the wicked humor and superbly self-aware irony that permeates every frame of… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, homage, horror, sheriff, small town, space slugs

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