Mad October comes to an appropriately anti-climactic end with 1987’s Zombie High, an initially promising horror-comedy pairing Virginia Madsen with Sherilyn Fenn and future Ghostbusters director Paul Feig that ends up being a whole lot of nothing.
Read MoreMad October continues with a look back at the 1999 fright flick The Haunting, which wastes the pleasing incongruity of Owen Wilson in full-on slacker mode in a horror movie on a bunch of CGI-fueled nonsense.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen takes a spooktacular turn with 1995’s The Prophecy, a very silly movie with a wonderful performance by Christopher Walken as an evil angel.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of Bob Odenkirk continues with the kick ass 2021 action thriller Nobody, which is kind of like John Wick With Bob But Not David.
Read MoreI hate to use phrases like “real stinkeroo” but this one is a real stinkeroo.
Read MoreBack, and to the left.
Read MoreBatman Beyond explores its lighter side in two wonderfully goofy episodes that find Terry squaring off against a super-villain gossip columnist voiced by Michael McKean and must juggle crime-fighting with looking after an EggBaby.
Read MoreMy reader-funded exploration of the complete filmography of Virginia Madsen continues with her utterly delightful lead performance in the charming 1984 romantic comedy Electric Dreams.
Read MoreOur patron-funded exploration of the films of Rebecca Gayheart continues with the 2002 movie world satire Pipe Dream, which has charm and an appealing lead performance from Hal Hartley favorite Martin Donovan but cannot overcome a toxic premise.
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