A charming Egyptologist on the trail of ancient secrets and dangerous mysteries. A synopsis where you can only trust the conjunction, and Franklin J. Schaffner didn’t direct the film; he embalmed it, and not even the romantic subplot with Ahmed Dracula can save it (as one critic aptly noted, Langella had the charm of…

The psychological horror soon turns surreal, with the imprisoned psychopath murdering through others. He uses dreams and hypnosis to do this. Danny may be a good guy, but he's a moron, so when he spots Laura, the Sleeping Beauty, in the hospital and hears that she's about to become an experimental subject, he decides…

There's a monster killing in the city, and the first massacres convinced me that a xenomorph had jumped in. Too bad they showed its form afterwards. It had a leaky tongue instead of a second set of jaws, but otherwise the inspiration, including the slime, was clear, and I quite like it. Also, there's one nice…

Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patelliére are two French dudes working on the classics of Alexandre Dumas classics, and after The Three Musketeers, they excel again! Next time, then, “The Man with the Iron Mask”? The Count of Monte-Cristo is unknown for me, I'm not familiar with the book, so I'm glad I enjoyed…

An excellent sultry and unpleasant drama from the Balkans! The protagonist is Blaga, a 70 year old Bulgarian respected teacher whose husband has recently died. She unfortunately also loses all her life savings because she is the victim of a phone scam and pays cruelly because of her stupidity. No one will give her a…

The taillights of the Batmobile? Creeper from Jeepers Creepers? Red-eyed Richard Gere after a several-day bar crawl in Point Pleasant? Or perhaps the red light at the traffic signal by the overloaded Silver Bridge? Maybe it was a sign like the one on ex-pastor Mel's farm in the middle of a cornfield, but you know how…

"Ollie? Yes son. I want to kill you." Perhaps it was because I first saw the phenomenal documentary by Tom DiCillo, but Oliver Stone's licensed doors of perception remained closed for me. In the concert segments, they successfully captured the untranslatable spirit of the mescaline era, and Kilmer's transformation is…

James Stewart had his whole leg in a cast, while Shia had an ankle monitor on his. For these reasons, it’s clear they couldn't leave the house and could fully indulge in a dangerous life of spying. However, I couldn’t help but wonder why young Ben has a cast on his arm. Friedkin’s The Guardian meeting Disturbia offers…

Sleeping with the Invisible Enemy. Leigh Whannell has mastered the art of building tension over his years of collaboration with Wan, and here he simply swapped the supernatural entity for the scream of modern technology. The moment it tips into the B-movie style of Verhoeven's Hollow Man, one realizes how editing down…

I understand that this is a very dated documentary, and I certainly didn’t expect it to break new ground by interviewing a surviving alien from the Roswell crash and taking him to a nearby Mandalay Bay for a game of blackjack. However, the informational value of this investigative work approaches zero, and the…