If there were a theme running through the second season of Jordan Peele’s reboot of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it would be called… …the mean season. Peele still sticks to the spirit of Rod Serling’s brainchild, but there are a lot of episodes that would’ve fit more in the horror vein as a continuation of Serling’s […]
Read More The Twilight Zone Season Two Review by Sean E. Ali2019 Raimi Productions/Fire Axe Pictures/Paramount Pictures Directed by Alexandre Aja Produced by Craig J. Flores/Sam Raimi/Alexandre Aja Written by Michael Rasmussen/Shawn Rasmussen Music by Max Aruj/Steffan Thum Cinematography by Maxime Alexandre Edited By Eliot Greenberg I have to admit with no shame at all that I do so love that I no longer have to […]
Read More CrawlDirected by Robert Eggers Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson I always feel a bit of pressure to give a film like THE LIGHTHOUSE a better rating. No, not because I once planned to write a book (or maybe I did …?) way back in the MV1 days called THE LIGHTHOUSE, but because we need […]
Read More The Lighthouse: A Mark Bousquet ReviewWhen I watched the clumsy SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL last week or so, I made the point that altering source material is not an automatic reason for me to dislike a movie. SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL isn’t mediocre because it changed almost all of Ace Atkins novel or gutted all the heart and charm from Robert Parker’s characters, or […]
Read More The Long Goodbye: A Mark Bousquet Review2019 Knuckle Sandwich Productions/Indie Rights Written and Directed by Detdrich McClure Produced by David Douglas/Kiarra Graves/Raymond James Herrera/LaCora Stephens/Detdrich McClure Music by Jairo Duarte-Lopez/Michael Eremiasova Cinematography by Adam Gan Edited by Brian Uskokovich When Patricia and I get together in the evenings to watch a movie I like to let her pick what we watch. […]
Read More Brown Paper Bag1975 New World Pictures Directed by William Witney Produced by Gene Corman Written by George Armitage “In fact, if you look from today’s perspective at 1970’s exploitation movies, they look like they were made on another planet. The basic elements in these movies are things you couldn’t put in movies today” -Joe Dante This is […]
Read More Darktown Strutters1994 Toho Pictures Directed by Kensho Yamashita Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Hiroshi Kashiwabara If a seven-year old offered to make you dinner, you might well end up with a meal the equivalent of GODZILLA VS. SPACEGODZILLA: it’s got too many ingredients, it’s not made particularly well, and even though it checks all the […]
Read More Godzilla Vs. SpaceGodzilla: A Mark Bousquet Review2020 DC Films/Warner Bros. Pictures/LuckyChap Entertainment/Kroll & Co. Entertainment Clubhouse Pictures Directed by Cathy Yan Produced by Margot Robbie/Bryan Unkeless/Sue Kroll Written by Christina Hodson Based on “Birds of Prey” by Jordan B. Gorfinkel/Chuck Dixon Harley Quinn created by Paul Dini/Bruce Timm Music by Daniel Pemberton Cinematography by Matthew Libatique Edited by Jay Cassidy/Evan Schiff […]
Read More Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)1976 Ramana Productions/Po’ Boy Productions Directed by Fred Williamson Written by Jolivett Cato/Charles Walker Music by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson Here’s the thing that made Fred Williamson stand out from other male Blaxploitation stars of the 1970s: even then he wasn’t satisfied with just acting in those violent action thrillers. Even then he had an eye toward […]
Read More Mean Johnny Barrows2019 Lionsgate Written and Directed by Wes Miller Produced by Curtis Nichouls/Henry Penzi/Sasha Yelaun Music by Sid De La Cruz/Savannah Latham Cinematography by Michael Brouphy Edited by Rowan Maher In the space of a decade give or take two or three years, Bass Reeves has gone from being the most famous lawman of The Old […]
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