Cuando en el cielo pasen lista is a by-the-numbers recounting of a real guy from Argentina named William Case Morris who helped orphaned and troubled young boys learn to be good men. Similar to Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938) and Bing Crosby The Bells of St. Mary’s (1944), the protagonist is an infinitely patient man who treats boys who aren’t used to a fair shake with kindness and understanding. Then he dies with a legacy of multiple schools with thousands of boys. He walks off into heaven while the hymn “Cuando en el cielo pasen lista” (When They Call

Aguirre: the Wrath of God begins with a fake handwritten text alerting the audience that what we’re about to see is from the diary of the last survivor of an expedition of Spanish conquistadors to Per...

I'm not a fan of the John Wick films. I call them "Active Shooter: The Movie." My guess is that someone watched that scene from The Matrix where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss shoot up a lobby on t...

I mean, you know if this is going to be your thing or not. Guillermo has a very distinctive style and themes he returns to again and again. The monstrous loner yearning for a way to connect with human...

Now that we have some distance from the horrific events of 911, a rewatch of Kathryn Bigelow's brilliant film about the hunt, eventual location and killing of Osama bin Laden reveals some interesting ...

This is a short film about a vampire nurse. That is, a nurse who is also a vampire. There’s a surprising amount of information imparted in the 17 minute runtime. Our vampire nurse uses her powers to h...

Guilty Bystander is about an alcoholic private detective who learns his son has been kidnapped from his estranged wife. He tries to sober up as we follow him through this procedural but he is thwarted...

An errant missile of mysterious origin pops up onto military sensors with an impact in less than eight minutes and we see how different levels of American intelligence handles this news. From the sold...

Terror in a Texas Town begins with the money shot: the familiar quick draw shootout in the town square with a man in black in the foreground, hand itching to draw his gun. In the background is his opp...

We’ll have to file KPop Demon Hunters under “Not For Me.” That doesn’t mean I can’t recognize that it’s good. I’ve never been a fan of boy bands and this wave of Korean vocal ensembles with their over...

Made during Disney’s darker period that also spawned The Black Hole, Something Wicked This Way Comes is an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story about an evil carnival that grants your wildest wish and t...

Horror film about a woman traveling solo to a coastal California town looking for her estranged artist father and arriving during an evil centennial blood moon situation. Messiah of Evil lost funding ...

Hot Saturday is one of the movies I watched from a pre-Hays Code set of DVDs from Universal Studios. It’s the story of an unmarried career woman played by Nancy Carroll who has to politely rebuff adva...

There’s a Philip K. Dick riff on identity and reality underlying the stylish cyberpunk feast for the eyes that is The Matrix. And that style isn’t just slo-mo and Bullet Time. There is some genuinely ...

The original Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad was essentially a culmination of the best gags from the underseen and underrated Police Squad television show. Jim Abrahams and the Zucker Brothe...

Dangerous Animals is a serviceable riff on the torture porn subgenre. Like Wolf Creek, Hostel and Funny Games you have young, beautiful Americans against arbitrary foreign evil. In the mid-2000s these...

Let me count the ways: • Indy’s silhouette! • Booby traps in an ancient tomb in the jungle! • Narrow escape from the boulder! • “If only you spoke Hovitos.” • That rousing Raiders March! • Shit, John ...

Anthology Horror Films are one of my favorite subgenres. Throw a couple of tight, streamlined twist-ending stories with decent jumpscares together with a loosely applicable bookend and you have the fi...

After Death is a Russian ghost story picture from 110 years ago about a recluse who just wants to sit at home in his three piece suit and read in front of a roaring fire in his turn of the century dec...

I am an unabashed, hardcore lover of the original Flatliners. It is a glorious example of style over substance. Just beautiful A-listers from the 80s lensed in gothic surroundings delving into the unk...

I love movies. All my life I have had a fixation on the medium and would pass on things a lot of kids would rather be doing if I could see a picture. My goal is to be able to appreciate as many kinds ...

Reviewing a movie as influential and well-known as Taxi Driver is a no-win scenario. You can’t say anything new about it that a million college papers haven’t already. You can not like it, but you can...