New York Ripper A reminder of how back in the day a sleazy dirty horror film was REALLY just that, Fulci’s NY-set slasher takes full advantage of its locations work, succeeding in making the city that never sleeps truly part of the narrative. Despite the American setting, I quickly grew weary of the massive amount […]
Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian One of the secrets in making a successful sequel is to basically “up the ante”, to take the original’s premise and make it more epic with more characters and wilder situations, as was the case for this 2009 release that followed up the enormously popular original. […]
Night Of The Demons It’s amazing how some low budget horror movies of the 1980s can still hold up remarkably well today (probably because their key components were still fresh and original at the time compared to the post modern era of today’s horror flicks where everyone steals or homages bits from the past and […]
Night Of The Living Dead Truly one of the most breakthrough horror movies of all time, Romero’s low-budget opus that came to be considered a work of art still holds up today in terms of sheer creepiness, with the surreal first 20 minutes and nightmarish final 10 minutes among some of the best filmmaking you […]
Night Patrol Political Correctness and the need to maintain it would become one of the most stifling elements of our entertainment culture when it was formally introduced as a “new way of doing things” by Bill and Hillary Clinton in the early 1990s. Not allowing and / or censoring anything that might “offend” somebody (save […]
Night Shift Hollywood comedies in the early 1980s went through a brief period where several of the yukfests coming off the assembly line were apparently making it a point to glamorize (or at least romanticize) the profession of prostitution (a.k.a. human trafficking) by portraying it in a somewhat positive light while stopping just this much […]
Night Tide It’s funny how most younger fans of the legendary Hollywood rebel Dennis Hopper fail to realize that when HE was younger, Hopper was actually best friends with the original Rebel Without A Cause himself, James Dean, even appearing alongside him in that ubiquitous 1950s classic. After Dean’s fiery death in a smash up […]