Archive for January, 2014

A scarecrow that really scares

Dark Night Of The ScarecrowThe movie Dark Night Of The Scarecrow manages to be surprisingly creepy and proves that made for television horror movies can be just as creepy as horror movies made for theatrical release.

The mother of all disappointing WIP movies

The MuthersThe Cirio H. Santiago movie The Muthers is a women in prison slash modern day pirate movie. It sounds like fun, but it isn’t.

Just rent

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I was, heaven help me, going to take a look at the new batch of pseudo-sequels; but I figured I’d better tidy up this mess first. As far as a mess like this can be tidied up…

 

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THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (2005)

In which a newly blended family moves into its dream home and—well, I’m pretty sure you know how this one goes.

The most significant feature of this version of the by-now venerable tale is that it allows the 1979 version to belatedly achieve its aspiration of looking like a respectable mainstream production…at least by comparison…

 

 

Get a clue and watch it

Detective School DropoutsWhat a surprise. Detective School Dropouts is not only a rare comedy from Golan and Globus, it happens to be genuinely funny and deserves to be better known.

Testing, testing… Is this thing on?

fireworks2014c2Yes, yes – I’m late.

And it’s even later here, so I feel even more guilty.

Of course I have an excuse; and unlike most of my excuses, it’s a really good one!

That old joker, 2013, decided to go out with a literal bang by dropping a tree on my house. Consequently I’ve been a little…distracted.

Not to mention behind in my New Year’s Resolutions by 1st January – a new record!

However…

2013 was indeed a right bee-yotch of a year and I for one am profoundly grateful to see the back of it.

And while I’m not going to make any foolhardy promises for 2014, either on my own behalf or on behalf of the others, I think I can say that we will at least be trying to get ourselves back in some sort of order.

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As always, our sincere thanks and gratitude to those of you who have stuck by us through a very rough ride, and here’s hoping for smoother (and more productive!) sailing in the future.