In my review of “Kafka,” I mentioned how the movement of postmodernism came out of the historical condition referred to as the modern era (ironically, it’s an era now antique as it ran from about…

I’m not wild about possession horror. For some reason, the idea of oddly named demons taking control of someone’s body and making them vomit pea soup just seems kind of dopey. (I did love the…

I have several thoughts about this one. Let me first give the broad strokes of the plot. Several Europeans, some bound by familial ties, go to visit the Kinnitty Pyramid, a reconstruction of an Egyptian…

I’m not quite sure what to make of “Cobweb.“ On the one hand, it’s creepy and evocative. While it never produces any real jump scares, it maintains a sense of unease throughout its entirety. On…

The imaginary friend has a long lineage in Hollywood. I’m reminded of “Harvey,“ which featured a Jimmy Stewart character who claimed to rub shoulders with a giant talking rabbit. There’s a lesser-known comedy from the…

This one could’ve been worse. A lot of these cheeseball 1970s/80s slashers tend to feel more like an episode of Quincy M.E. or The A-Team, than anything with genuine tension or drama. (Note for young…

When I was growing up in Honolulu in the 1970s, my mom often took me to strange movies that my young brain really had little chance of comprehending. Orson Welles’ version of the Franz Kafka…

Hmmm…. how do I say this nicely? This movie was a bag of crap balls. Let’s peruse the setup. Teenage Ellie lives with her parents and younger sister in a suburban planned community, presumably somewhere…

I am a big fan of the hard rock group AC/DC. This is despite the fact that they’ve been releasing what is essentially the same album—with largely interchangeable pounding hard rock riffs—for something like 50…

I’ll cut to the chase for the short attention span crowd: “The Other” is worth a watch despite a few flaws. The setup: A young white couple take in a Black foster daughter who’s around…

The setup here is pretty straightforward: a large house suddenly appears in a rural section of a northeaster US town. Trapped in the house is a group of people, all of whom have secrets the…

My recent viewing of “The Thirteenth Floor” was actually a rewatch for me; I first saw it when it came out back in 1999. The film, about a virtual reality populated by sentient AI (that’s…

How did people digest movies like “Persona” before the Internet? Before the time when you could open up Google, type, “What the hell did I just watch?“ and get some answers. I suppose they had…