My journey into the complete filmography of frightmaster Stuart Gordon kicks off with an awed look back at the dazzling, stomach-churning 1986 H.P. Lovecraft adaptation From Beyond.
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What is it about Jean-Claude Van Damme and sub-par motion pictures where he plays dual roles? There are at least three of them at this point.
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WCW only made one movie, 2000’s Ready to Rumble but hoo boy does it ever suck.
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The bonkers science fiction roller blading melodrama Prayer of the Rollerboys is better than Solarbabies but it’s still total garbage!
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The Haunting in Connecticut professes to be based on a true story when it is literally the fakest bullshit ever.
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My patron-funded exploration of the films of Virginia Madsen continues with the nifty 2017 dark Christmas comedy Better Watch Out, a nicely nasty riff on the homicidal craziness of Home Alone.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is some fucked up shit. And I mean that in a good way.
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The career and site-sustaining column where I write about movies you select in exchange for cold, hard cash returns with an affectionate look back at Freeway, Matthew Bright’s 1996 cult classic grindhouse take on Little Red Riding Hood, starring a never-better Reese Witherspoon as a pistol-packing badass who tangles with a wolfish serial killer played by Kiefer Sutherland.
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Red Riding Hood is not good. It is insanely derivative of Twilight, however. That also is not good.
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My patron-funded exploration of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s filmography continues with an affectionate look back at his revelatory 2008 psychodrama JCVD, where he played himself very powerfully and honestly.
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