Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A small town’s women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans. REVIEW: John Carpenter was, is, and always will be one of cinema’s greatest auteurs of horror and sci-fi. If you take the time to look over his resume, the hits far out-weigh the misses. In fact, I wouldn’t say he actually has any …
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Film Review: Deathtrap (1982)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A playwright that is desperate to come up with his next big hit decides to kill one of his students and steal his idea for a play that he wrote. REVIEW: I saw Deathtrap one Sunday afternoon on cable when I was a kid and just really couldn’t get into it. It didn’t have enough gory …
Read More »Film Review: Superman II (1980)
SYNOPSIS: “A group of terrorists seize the Eiffel Tower and threaten Paris with a hydrogen bomb if the French government does not meet their demands. Superman immediately heads to Paris, where he launches the elevator carrying the bomb into outer space before it can detonate. Unfortunately, when the bomb explodes, it disintegrates the ‘Phantom Zone’, where three Kryptonian criminals had …
Read More »Film Review: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
SYNOPSIS: The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor’s latest creation, Nuclear Man. REVIEW: Today’s journey into bad movie land is the much-maligned Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, though if the director had his way, it would have had the subtitle The Quest for a Budget by the time they wrapped. The film centers on …
Read More »Film Review: Somewhere In Time (1980)
SYNOPSIS: “College student Richard Collier gathers rave reviews for his new play. At a party, he comes face-to-face with an old woman who presses something in his hand and whispers ‘Come back to me’. He opens his hand to find an old pocket watch. Cut to several years later. Playwright Collier is in the midst of a break-up and writer’s …
Read More »Film Review: Superman The Movie (1978)
SYNOPSIS: “Unable to convince the ruling council of Krypton that their world will destroy itself soon, scientist Jor-El takes drastic measures to preserve the Kryptonian race: He sends his infant son Kal-El to Earth. There, gaining great powers under Earth’s yellow sun, he will become a champion of truth and justice. Raised by the Kents, an elderly farm couple, Clark …
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