Child’s Play 2 One thing should be made clear: The original 1988 Child’s Play was one of the great atmospheric horror films of the decade, building suspense slowly before making its franchise villain truly part of the mix. Not so the case with its sequel, made two years later. The filmmakers had already decided that […]
Child’s Play 3 Rushed into production and onto theater screens a mere 9 months(!) after the previous entry, this is clearly the biggest failure of the series, failing to even make Chucky entertaining with foul-mouthed wisecracks that come off as tired rather than clever, as even Brad Dourif doing the voice seems off his game. […]
Chinatown As a movie that’s been praised to the moon and routinely shows up on many All-Time best lists, Roman Polanski’s 1974 potboiler (the last film he made before fleeing the U.S. on rape charges) has its good points and bad points, with the former just barely outweighing the latter. The film’s lush, beautiful cinematography […]
Chocolat No doubt one of the most dangerous things in this world, and the cause of so many of its problems, is the celebration of repression, the idea of withholding and denying oneself even the simplest of pleasures for the sake of some presumed spiritual fulfillment as advocated by those such as the Catholic Church. […]
Christine By the early 1980s, Stephen King had become so proficient at his own personalized brand of junk food horror that even his preliminary manuscripts were being shopped around to film production companies actually BEFORE they would reach the publication stage. This 1983 release was one such story of his, and in many ways it […]
Christmas Story While the word classic is a word that gets applied to a good number of films deservedly, sometimes the burden of repetition can overwhelm certain ones to the point that the quality of the film itself can actually become diluted (witness Psycho and its “major twist” that has been forever spoiled for future […]
Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian Despite the fact that the story borrows generously from other action / fantasy tales (most notably Shakespeare’s Hamlet) this adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ second story in the franchise is pretty much an equal to The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. The four Pevensie siblings return from the previous film […]
Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe The Chronicles Of Narnia movies was the type of project that most likely was inspired by the success of The Lord Of The Rings franchise and with good reason: Original authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were known to have been good friends when they […]
Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader Is there any doubt that the Narnia franchise is the absolute cream of the modern day crop of children’s movies? Featuring positive, life-affirming themes, Christian-based allegories of strength, faith, and good will, and likable characters (both animal and human) that kids of all ages can relate to, […]
C.H.U.D. One of the more interesting failures of the 80s horror scene, this little opus telling the tale of homeless people living under New York City who mutate into cannibal mutants suffers greatly from the struggles that went on behind the camera: The script was rewritten several times to the point that stars John Heard, […]