The use of breathless silence to create white-knuckled suspense in a horror chiller as the characters await the inevitable confrontation with evil separates good scary movies from bad. Silence is read more...
Saying No But Meaning Yes, Bluebirds & Survival Sex: BLACKSTAR Reviewed By Shaun A. Lawton What is Blackstar? It’s a 1960 song by Elvis Presley: “Every man has a black star, a black read more...
Mind-numbing nonsense from fade-in to fadeout, “Pacific Rim Uprising” (** OUT OF ****) lacks the stellar cast and the suspenseful Armageddon melodrama of its outlandish but entertaining read more...
Horror movie maestro Eli Roth’s lukewarm remake of the notorious vigilante thriller “Death Wish” (*1/2 OUT OF ****), with Bruce Willis taking over the role that elevated Charles Bronson to read more...
WATAIN’S TRIDENT. WOLF. ECLIPSE is the first release of 2018, and the band’s first since 2013’s THE WILD HUNT *(and the subsequent suicide of guitarist/songwriter SELIM LEMOUCHI, a very read more...
A quick one, something I just came across while checking out SLIMY MEMBER the other night. Interestingly enough they’re from that wretched redbrick wasteland I often call home, Philadelphia. That, read more...
HELLRIPPER is a one-man old school blackened-thrash project from Aberdeen, Scotland. Now before I continue, this was something that was sent to me back in I think August, when I was in the middle of read more...
So I awake this morning, have my cigarette, and while checking my phone notice that the ANDROID VIRUS had texted me, bright and early. I open the text to find a picture of a band, being read more...
Hollywood loves to recycle the same old same old, lest we forget some stories are universal to every generation. “Perks of a Wall Flower” director Stephen Chbosky’s family-friendly feature read more...
There is something about German soldiers and horror films that go so devilishly good together. Movies such as Dead Snow, Frankenstein’s Army and The Keep took the already accepted evil of the read more...
