Plaguers (2008)

NOVEMBER 20, 2010 GENRE: MUTANT SOURCE: DVD (STORE RENTAL) I gotta hand it to Brad and Josephina Sykes, the husband and wife team responsibl...

Top 20 after B

In a continuing project that means a lot more to me than to my readership at large, I thought I'd update you on where I stand with reloa...

After Midnight (1989)

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 GENRE: ANTHOLOGY SOURCE: NETFLIX (INSTANT VIEW) I was in the mood for a slasher, so I looked in the slasher section on Net...

Number soup

It's Harry Potter time again. I actually haven't seen the last two Potters in the theater, having lost my interest in theatrical scr...

The Season (2008)

NOVEMBER 18, 2010 GENRE: BREAKDOWN , SURVIVAL SOURCE: DVD (ONLINE RENTAL) It seems every Screamfest has a movie where I end up sleeping thro...

The Darkroom (2006)

NOVEMBER 17, 2010 GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL SOURCE: CABLE (ON DEMAND) Early on in The Darkroom , there’s an closeup of a door labeled “Room 7”, a...

A realization about Rob Reiner

My friend Don, who was visiting for the weekend from Chicago, and I were leaving Amoeba Music in Hollywood on Sunday night when the conversa...