Well...I liked it. Quite a bit actually (though admittedly, I went into the film with low expectations, based on what I'd heard). It wasn't perfect, nor was it as good as Skyfall (much less Casino Royale) but it was considerably better than Quantum of Solace. My thoughts exactly...I'd give it a dec...

8.5/10 This was an absolutely charming movie...one that thankfully refrains from the usual clutter that gums up most CG animated features these days (annoying pop culture references, scatological "jokes", BIG NAME CELEBRITY!!! voice casting, incessant, painful slapstick) and retains the ge...

Glad to hear this isn't in the same category as those horrible Dr. Seuss CGI flicks, like Horton Hears A Who and The Lorax . I have a lot of fond memories of reading the Peanuts comic strips and, of course, the various TV specials (who our age does not?), so it pleases me they haven't gone for the l...

-The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): 10/10



See you again next Halloween!

- Trick 'r Treat (2007): 8.5/10 http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/trick-r-treat.jpeg Delightful anthology of horror tales centering around a small town on All Hallow's Eve, with the various stories overlapping in a Pulp Fiction style. In one, the wife (Leslie Bibb) of a man...

- Dawn Of The Dead (2004): 9.5/10 http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dawn-of-the-dead-2004-movie-review-zombie-girl.jpg Still hands-down director Zack Snyder's finest film (hard to believe he went from this to the deeply incoherent, misogynist and skeevy Sucker Punch in only seven...

- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014): 9/10 http://i.tmgrup.com.tr/dailysabah/2015/04/14/HaberDetay/1429044547139.jpg Evocative mood piece about a vampire (Sheila Vand) stalking the streets of a Persian "Bad City", and how her sanguinary nocturnal activity impacts the life of a young m...

- Oculus (2014): 8.5/10 http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/OCULUS-Image-03.jpg You ever have that experience, when watching a scary movie, when the person you're sitting with spends the entire time with crossed arms, harrumphing about how " I'd never do that! ", or "...

- Mama (2013): 7/10 http://www.jaredmobarak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mama01-640x378.jpg Effective ghost story about a pair of young sisters (Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse) found in a near-feral state in a dilapidated house in the woods, left there alone for five years when their distr...

"My fair lady, HUH!"

AndyDursin wrote: Looking forward to ASH VS EVIL DEAD on Starz this weekend!

I'm not subscribed to Starz, so I can't watch.

- Army Of Darkness director's cut (1993): 8/10 (theatrical cut: 8.5) http://cdn1-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2013/02/file_204405_0_Army_of_Darkness_Bruce_Campbell.jpg Now out on a groovy 3-disc Blu-Ray set from Scream Factory, this is the first time I've taken in Sam Raimi's third Evil Dead p...

Creature also has some of the most blatant lifts from various Jerry Goldsmith scores of the period (Outland, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Secret Of NIMH) that I honestly thought that Richard Band was the composer.

- Creature (1985): 1/10 http://www.the80smovieclub.co.uk/images/creature-screen1.png Horrendously cheapjack Alien ripoff is good for a few stray laughs, but hard to believe this came out over a half-decade after Ridley Scott's classic, as it looks about as chintzy as a 60's episode of Star Trek . Th...

- Eyes Without A Face (1960): 8/10 https://videocitylondon.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/351063576_640.jpg A mad doctor (Pierre Brasseur) kidnaps young women and surgically removes their faces so he can transplant them onto the ruined visage of his daughter (Edith Scob) following a car crash in this e...