Category: Reviews

Open Water

Despite its cerebral undertow, Lions Gate marketeers enthusiastically ballyhoo’d the human combo-meal potential of this lost-at-sea chiller’s simple, even ordinary story. Ken ‘n’ Barbie reluctantly […]

Orca

Master thespian and good-time party boy Richard Harris gets extremely crossways with a bloodthirsty widower determined to avenge the murder of his wife and unborn […]

A Night to Dismember

Inspiration and desperation are uneasy kin. Filmmaker Doris Wishman knows firsthand. This grand lady of trash cinema made sleaze classics like Nude on the Moon, […]

Oxygen

She’s had a few parts in big movies — Liar, Liar and Instinct to name a couple — but most probably know Maura Tierney‘s small […]

Octopus

They sure did go to an awful lot of trouble to make this eight-tentacled stinker that ineptly attempts to mix generic political thriller elements and […]

Okie Noodling

Its title might seem to require the expertise of Navajo code talkers but that’s only because the following wouldn’t fit on the marquee: "HOLE-LEE HOE-ZAY!!! […]

Omen III: The Final Conflict

It was Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist that proved moviegoers were itching to have the wits scared out of them by Old Scratch hisself — […]

Joy Ride

Delays. Lots of them. That’s what the genre pictures Joy Ride (2001, 97 minutes) and Soul Survivors share in common. Studio suits wringing their hands. […]

Police Academy

Steve Guttenberg. Bubba Smith. Bobcat Goldthwait. Ah, the Cops of Comedy. Hard to believe it’s indeed time for a 20th anniversary special edition of Police […]