December is typically the slowest month of the year for horror, but few Decembers in recent memory have been this catatonic.  Usually there is at least one genre film that opens on or around Christmas (often just for artificial controversy, cough), but nope, not this go around the sun.  And DVDs?  Forget about it.  You’ve [...]

Should I feel awkward sitting in a room with 200+ 13 year old girls having their first erotic cinema experience?  I’m no meteorologist, but the relative humidity in the theater went up 60% after Bella and Edward had their first kiss.
Awk.  Ward.

There’s not much to do at the ‘residence’ in Abidjan other than to hope the 12 foot walls with 3 foot electric fence on top of them are enough to keep you safe from the monsters that surely emerge at night, deep from unfathomable, unending piles upon piles upon kingly piles of trash that line [...]

… “THE SIMPSONS” Tree House of Horrors episodes were good?  Because this year’s was lame.  I know “THE SIMPSONS” hasn’t been close to even B- game in a while, but one could at least count on the Halloween episode to provide a nice Springfield filter on classic genre tales.
Year 19 though?  Ouch.  Flaccid TRANSFORMERS riff?  [...]

I’m not sure a title can be more concise than that.  Perhaps an equal sign could have saved me two words.
The first episode of “TRUE BLOOD”, Alan Ball’s vampire mystery series on HBO, did not guarantee me on the series.  Network indulgent sex scenes and orotund characters in every role save the key vampire were [...]

God damn it all.
So I’m wandering over to Cinematical when I see a post from the only person named Weinberg who matters (nevermind that pussy Harvard Nobel laureate physicst Steven Weinberg) detailing the release plan for a little movie you may have heard of called LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.  You know, it’s that Swedish [...]

Qatar is a funny place.  By association the Middle East, but by personality the Persian Gulf.  A younger brother to Dubai, ‘ole Qatar is on a rickety see-saw between desperately wanting to be Western and retaining traditional Muslim beliefs.  More amusing than the Dairy Queen in the Ramada parking lot is local TV, which is [...]

In case you missed it, Rob “FAST AND THE FURIOUS” Cohen told BD that Paramount had finally horded together all of the proper licenses and that he would be producing a remake of THE MONSTER SQUAD.  The Internet, as it is wont to do, imploded with the soundless thud of nerds everywhere collapsing their weary [...]

I am at partial loss as to why precisely I don’t like the HELLBOY franchise or why I am unenthusiastic at best towards Guillermo del Toro.  I’m a geek.  I dig fantasy.  I dig movies.  I dig practical effects.  I dig elaborate set pieces.  However, apparently, I do not dig geeky fantasy movies with practical [...]

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Oh, and does that or does that not look as if it belongs to a live action “Futurama”?