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UPDATED 4/1/2025: Completely revised the When To See scale to reflect the extinction of rental stores and 2nd run dollar show theaters in t...

 If I had to pick a favorite Beatle it'd be Paul McCartney because he was the most pop sensible member of the Fab Four. While not a Beat...

There aren't as many Hulu Original movies as Netflix churns out - the last one I reviewed was the disappointing Samara Weaving caper fli...

In the past two decades, Michigan's own Sam Raimi, who started with low budget cult classics like Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness , and Da...

 It's weird to realize that fans of the original 1996 Scream  could be grandparents with grandchildren almost old enough to watch these ...

 People complain that movies are just sequels, remakes/reboots, and formulaic twaddle, but all too often when something truly unique makes i...

 Time for this week's disposable Netflix Original movie, War Machine , starring Alan Ritchson (Amazon Prime's Reacher ) as an Army S...

 I've been unimpressed by the  28 Days/Weeks/Years Later  series. 2002's  28 Days Later  (no written review, but 4/10, Skip it score...

Mercy  is one of those direct-to-streaming type movies which apparently got a brief theatrical run before it eventually drops onto Amazon Pr...

January is traditionally a dumping ground for movies studios have little faith in and horror programmers. Sometimes you get a gem like M3GAN...

 James Cameron's 1986 magnum opus Aliens  was his announcement to the universe that The Terminator  wasn't a fluke and he was going ...

Depending on whether you want to love or hate Paul Feig, he's either the creator of the cult fave TV series Freaks & Geeks  (which l...

 I've never seen the original 1997 Anaconda  so I had no nostalgia or foreknowledge of whatever meta humor the 2025 reboot/reimagining/p...

 In conjunction with the 10th Anniversary of David Bowie's return to his homeworld, Britain's Channel 4 has produced Bowie: The Fina...

 It's the stuff of urban legend: Someone built a secret apartment in a shopping mall in Rhode Island. Except it's not a myth, but a ...

 Bryan Fuller's name is associated with a string of beloved, borderline cult classic TV series such as Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushin...

This will be quick: Saw Colombiana  in August 2011 and didn't like it and somehow haven't watched it since. It hasn't improved....

 Usually the weekly Netflix Original movies are forgettable piffles that are watched then forgotten in the maw of content which is Netflix, ...

 As we're beginning to run out of Nineties action flicks to watch, the missus decided it's time to switch to kickass chick action fl...

The Nineties Action Fest plows on with Michael Bay's second film, 1996's The Rock . The final collaboration between uber-producers J...

1975 was one of those pivotal years in movie history with serious Oscar-winners like  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest  and contenders li...

 George Clinton is one of the pioneers of funk and hip-hop who evolved from being part of a New Jersey-based doo wop group called The Parlia...

It's New Year's Eve and the missus wanted to watch this to cap off a positively miserable year which included her mother passing in ...

The titular  Dennis and Lois are a couple of music superfans from Brooklyn, NYC who've been together over 40 years without bothering to...

Since the missus didn't have her Blu-ray of Vertical Suckage Limit  here at Xanadu to pair with Cliffhanger  (oh darn) I finally was ab...