Superman III (1983)

I bought the DVD box set of Superman movies 15 or so years ago, and I technically “watched” all five movies, but I know I was hardly paying as much attention as I might’ve (or maybe even “should’ve”). I remember that this one I realized I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen before that viewing and was very […]

Scream 3 (2000)

It’s been a rollercoaster ride of third movies lately, soaring to great heights, and hitting some deep troughs. Given that I initially hated Scream back in the late 90s and thus hadn’t seen it in decades, and only saw its first sequel earlier this year, I had no idea where I was going to land […]

Scream 2 (1997)

I haven’t talked about slasher sequels in a while, given that I last watched Friday the 13th, Part 2 and rewatched Halloween II last year sometime, and have been holding the third films in each for my “series project” this year. Uh, well: Halloween III: Season of the Witch isn’t actually a slasher, but you […]

Scream (1996)

NOTE: this is from a backlogged viewing, so if someone just happens to be paying attention to my “series” project, I didn’t break my own rules, I just thought I should be sure I had reviews in for the “first movies” I was going to watch sequels to, even if I watched them last year. […]

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980)

I apparently did watch the Richard Donner cut of the second Superman film fifteen years ago, and two months later re-watched the theatrical version. I don’t remember this at all, and I’m not certain whether I actually paid attention or not, as I was prone to not doing so once upon a time… Lois Lane […]

新宿黒社会チャイナマフィア戦争 (Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô, lit. “Shinjuku Black Society: Chinese Mafia War”) [Shinjuku Triad Society] (1995)

I think Ichi the Killer was, for a long time, the only Miike crime film I’d seen, though I picked up a handful of others that came between this and that one in-between. I watched the Dead or Alive trilogy (which is increasingly separated from the idea of a crime or yakuza film as it […]

Superman: The Movie (1978)

NOTE: I actually watched the expanded version. It’s a fairly minimal change in length and I couldn’t explicitly tell you what was added. I could wax poetic in some way about the idea that I watched this movie in service of some re-evaluation in light of recent or current trends with the character of Superman, […]

Subspecies (1991)

As far as I’ve ever known (and prefacing it thusly, it shall remain for now), Full Moon had two major horror series behind it in the 1990s to sustain it: Puppet Master and Subspecies. Outside horror, there was Trancers, and then everything else seemed to be pretty one-off, or only thematically tied (Robot Jox to […]

Santa Sangre (1989)

I’ve seen about half of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s films, though the first one ever recommended to me was…Santa Sangre. I’ve now seen it, as part of my October’s spin through cult and horror movies for the season. I had some vague idea what to expect, given I’d seen both previous and later films, and had some […]

Storm Boy (1976)

This Blu-ray is in my collection almost entirely by accident: I ordered Frog Dreaming from Umbrella Entertainment (and, well… their special edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and they accidentally sent me this instead. When I asked about exchanging it, they told me to keep it. So, hey: go support Umbrella! They’ve got a lot […]