Wild Orchid People often forget that before he became the lovably eccentric cult actor with a Best Actor Oscar Nomination for his peerlessly brilliant performance in The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke in the 1980s was arguably the top male movie star sex symbol in the world (although not necessarily in The USA), so beloved was he […]
Wild Things The 1990s were definitely the era of the erotic thriller, softcore sex fests that would feature storylines of deception, deceit and betrayal as per the film that spawned the genre in Basic Instinct. Most of these movies were of a lower budgeted variety (special effects are not widely needed for practically shot sex […]
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 […]