Prophecy This 1995 release certainly tackles an interesting subject for us theologians: What if the angels in Heaven waged war on God due to jealousy over being passed over in favor of humans for the lion’s share of His love? Certainly writer / director Gregory Widen (of Highlander fame) takes off on this religious fiction […]
Psycho You could probably count on one hand the number of movies in the history of cinema that have had a truly groundbreaking, seismic effect in the history of the industry. Such is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 Grand Masterpiece, which among other things, changed the face of horror, set new standards in graphic violence and sexuality […]
Psycho 2 Alfred Hitchcock (perhaps unintentionally) is widely credited with inventing the “slasher” horror movie with his 1960 masterpiece Psycho, a film which not only shocked and outraged audiences at the time of its release, but also is roundly considered to be the single best piece of work that Hitchcock himself ever produced, ironic enough […]
Public Enemies A couple things that can be said right now about Michael Mann’s 2009 disaster: The art direction and production design, right down to the costumes, are immaculate and look great, and the film features both an evocative opening scene showing John Dillinger escaping from prison complemented by an appearance from character acting legend […]
Pulp Fiction Labeled by many as the Greatest Movie Of The 90s (it’s not, even by Tarantino’s standards) and as one of the Greatest Movies Of All Time that quickly took its place among respectable best film lists almost immediately. But a closer look indicates that the film (while still great) gets its classic status […]
Pumpkinhead Released in 1988 and garnering quite a bit of attention as the directorial debut of movie FX Legend Stan Winston, this is a horror / monster movie that seems to spin off of old folk tales as its inspiration, and it does succeed in a couple of aspects, namely in its atmosphere and the […]
Punisher (2004) Comic book movies sometimes have a weird line to walk, as even though comics themselves are a limited, one dimensional art form, when a movie adaptation is made of one, more often than not studios pay far too much heed to the vocal minority of comic book fans who practically masturbate to their […]
Puppetmaster Is Charles Band the worst horror filmmaker of all time? In many ways, that would appear to be the case, as even though his films sometimes have intriguing concepts, the overall execution always shows him to have an almost infantile predilection for heavy doses of cheese and corn into the finished product, with little […]