Trick or Treat! This is another Halloween season, and Taste of Cinema is full of brilliant horror lists. From the silent era to the past few years, from the classic Universal monsters to the modern day J-horror, from essential lists of horror masters like Wes Craven and Mario Bava to definitive horror recommendations. If you […]
My feelings about Oliver Stone and his work have varied more than any other filmmaker. In my younger and far more vulnerable narrow-minded years, he was my intellectual hero. I was very much into Bill Hicks then; I believed there was a greater truth to things and that men such as Hicks and Stone exposed […]
When comedy or horror films fall flat, the results are usually painful to watch, but even when action films are bad, they’re good. If you’re a true action fan, you’re willing to overlook bad acting and absurd storylines as long as there are kick ass stunts, real good explosions and a bit where Chuck Norris […]
If the Sharknado franchise tells you anything about horror movies, it’s that gore, sleaze and gratuitous nudity have given way to bad CGI, lame gags and celebrity cameos. Instead of watching a man in a rubber suit carry off a bikinied Playmate Of The Month, today’s audiences are captivated by the sudden appearance of David […]
Horror comedies are often a turn-off for critics and usually fail at the box office, making you wonder about the tastes of modern audiences. If ever a genre had the potential for send-up, it’s the one that spawned the immortal classics Unfriended, Ouija and Annabelle. Then again, it’s entirely possible that a modern crowd just […]
This year, it’s surprisingly easy to think of the worst movies. This isn’t to say that 2016 has been consistently terrible, but there have been plenty of noteworthy duds. As the year comes to a close, people will likely have seen most of the movies they set out to see. After hearing about how wonderful […]