In a time when even the stand-out new zombie movies (like DIARY OF THE DEAD) are treading on familiar ground both stylistically and thematically, it’s rare to find an entry in the genre that demonstrates both originality and wit. WASTING AWAY does just that in its...
The second of five features which producer/director Roger Corman would release in 1960, The Wasp Woman is acutely aware of the time in which it was made as the production reflects the filmmaker’s concern with such topics as gender, stampeding big business, and...
THE WASHINGTONIANS is the broadest MASTERS OF HORROR episode to date, with a consistently off-the-wall tone somehow inevitable in a season featuring Meat Loaf skinning himself and a male doctor being grotesquely abused with his own equipment at an abortion clinic....
I would certainly say that if a major blockbuster is in the works and you know about it, and it’s also public domain, why not jump on the wagon and give the folks your interpretation of the sci fi classic. So when the weak viewing public see WAR OF THE WORLDS on the...
“War of the Worlds” is like a snack or drink that tastes good going in, but leaves you with a bland after-taste. On the surface, the movie is filled with dazzling special effects, great action sequences, and a good performance by Tom Cruise (I can’t believe I just...
Time has not been kind to Byron Haskin’s sci-fi alien invasion classic, The War of the Worlds. As humanity has gotten further and further from the Cold War, we are now able to view the film for what it truly is: A piece of American propaganda at its moralistic worst....
