Retro Review: Way Out West (1937). One of Laurel and Hardy’s most iconic comedies, Way Out West exemplifies the transition from silent to sound films. Not always for the best. After being charmed by Jon …
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Retro Review: Praying with Anger (1992). M. Night Shyamalan directs and stars in this debut film about culture clash in India. Shyamalan’s latest film, Glass, is out this weekend, so we decided to go back …
Retro Review: An American Werewolf in London (1981). The director behind Animal House took a swipe at a very different genre with this iconic werewolf flick. The werewolf genre had a bit of a hangover …
Retro Review: The Wolf Man (1941). Universal’s classic werewolf movie wolfs down its story instead of letting audiences sink their teeth into a hearty plot. Covering the history of werewolves in cinema for October meant …
Retro Review: Wolf Blood (1925). This October we highlight the history of Werewolves in film, beginning with the oldest surviving movie, Wolf Blood. Each October we like to run down a popular movie monster genre. …
Retro Review: The Snow Creature (1954). Smallfoot is set to bring the abominable snowman to children this weekend, so I decided to re-watch the first Yeti movie to ever be released in the US – …
Retro Review Double Feature: Predator 1 & 2. The first Predator movie was an action horror classic. The second was critical roadkill. Is it still true, and how did it happen? Bad sequels to classic …
Retro Review: Mission Impossible (1996.) We choose to accept the mission of re-watching the film that launched the 3 billion dollar MI franchise. We may or may not have self destructed after viewing. I have …
Retro Review: Jacob’s Ladder It’s a new month and a new theme: Madness. Gearing up for Mad Max:Fury Road, we’ve decided to look at dementia in all of it’s guises. This week, we return to …
Retro Review: Yor, the Hunter from the Future Our last film salute to the great (and not so great) caveman genre concludes with Yor, the Hunter from the Future. We’ve looked at prehistoric cavemen, modern …
Retro Review Triple Play: Modern Cavemen We’ve looked at two prehistoric flicks that showed our ancestors in their natural environments. Now it’s time to take a look at the weirdly specific sub-genre of Caveman films …
Retro Review: Clan of the Cave Bear This weeks journey into prehistory is the movie adaptation of Jean M. Auel’s popular novel, Clan of the Cave Bear. The novel started a whole series of books …