‘Army of Darkness’ is Absolutely Fascinating For All Sorts of Reasons
To say that Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness came off the heels of Evil Dead II would be inaccurate....
Sordid Cinema Podcast #542: ‘The Quick and the Dead’ is the Sam Raimi show
Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead Podcast Review 1995’s The Quick and the Dead showed that director of The Evil Dead, Darkman, and Army...
‘Crawl’ is Single-Minded, Slick Summer Horror
Though little in the script elevates it above your average SyFy creature feature, director Alexandre Aja’s Crawl manages to wriggle its way out of the...
Getting Spider-Man Right Takes Great Power and Responsibility
by David Harris
“With great power….” — yeah, we all know what comes next. It involves a paternal figure, a science experiment, and one of the weirdest looking...
‘Spider-Man 2’ Remains A Peerless Spider-Man Film
Tobey Maguire portrays a thunderstruck Peter Parker Spider-Man 2; he staggers through the film perpetually on the edge of tears, a hero in crisis, never...
10 Years Later: ‘Drag Me to Hell’ was a Heavenly Return to the Sam Raimi Brand
For someone who grew up devouring cinematic carnivals like Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness, and The Quick and the Dead, there was certainly a satisfaction in...
Twenty Years Later: ‘A Simple Plan’ is a Perfect Time Capsule of the Mid-Budget Thriller
We live in a world of extremes today — political, social, economic — so it’s only natural that our film industry is polarized too. Movies are...
25 Years Later: Hail To The King Baby! ‘Army Of Darkness’ is Still Groovy
Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! It’s been twenty-five years since Bruce Campbell first showed the Army of Darkness his “boomstick,” and pop culture hasn’t...
‘The Gift’ is Recommended for Fans of Melodramatic, Gothic Potboilers
The Gift is obviously a labor of love for Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, childhood friends who co-wrote the script, which is loosely based...
Tom Watches Movies: ‘Intruder’ is a Slasher Movie Diamond in the Rough
People talk a lot about genre fatigue these days, mostly in regards to superhero movies. And yet, this kind of genre saturation has been worse,...