Winter Kills Sort of a lunatic distant cousin to Oliver Stone’s JFK, this film has almost as interesting a backstory as what’s onscreen. Financed independently by marijuana dealers, having production get shut down three times due to union problems, and ultimately bringing in mob money that may have resulted in one of the executive producers […]
Witchboard Supernatural horror movies (with whatever the actual “supernatural” creature involved being any one of a number of different things) had kind of cooled off in The 1980s with the advent of the slasher movie boom after the superpowered shot in the arm they had gotten in the 70s from The Exorcist and The Omen. […]
Wolf Monster movies, which in the 40s, often took a corny, direct approach to its material without any nuance or subtlety, have certainly evolved over the years, and this 1994 effort from Oscar-winning director Mike (The Graduate) Nichols was an example of that. It tells the story of a mild-mannered publishing executive whom, while on […]
Wolfman (Remake) (Director’s Cut) I must admit, I had some fears going into this updated version of the Immortal 1941 Horror Classic, mostly based on the idea that it would be a big, overly CGIed pile of nothing ala Van Helsing, but actually was pleasantly surprised to see that the computer graphics were kept to […]
Wonderland In the world of pornographic adult movies, there is no bigger or greater legend than that of John Holmes, the man with the 12 inch member who screwed and blazed a trail through a reported 14,000 women in literally thousands of porn films mostly in the 1970s and was a worldwide household name and […]
Woodstock What were the 60s really like? Certainly we have a plethora of movies from the era that depicted dramatically the ins and outs of the counterculture of the times, helped by the use of popular music from that period. But the real deal continues to elude us save for the one resource of cinema […]
World According To Garp When is a drama not really a drama? When does what appears to be a comedy sometimes become too serious for its own good? How can the balance possibly be maintained between both realms to create a rewarding cinematic experience? Perhaps the rarest of these types of films to actually work […]
World Gone Wild Basically a low-budget b-movie hybrid / homage of Road Warrior and Magnificent Seven, this is one of the great cable staples from the 80s to have slipped thru the cracks and become completely forgotten today. The story takes place fifty years after the nuclear holocaust and it has not rained since. Water […]
The Wrestler The opening montage of wrestling news articles certainly took me back to the days of the 80s when “mark” magazines like PWI ruled the day in coverage, as Aronofsky tells this story of a guy who could have been any number of different stars of the era, now fallen from grace. There is […]