I am doing the 31 Days of Horror Challenge. Every day in October, I will watch a different horror film I have never seen before and write about it here on the blog. There is a fine line to walk between making a campy spoof of bad movies and simply making a bad movie. With […]
Tag Archives: World War II
The following review originally was written for The Parallax Review, a film review site of which I was the co-founder and managing editor. I have decided to collect the writings I did for The Parallax Review and preserve them here. I will be posting a few of these older pieces every week. My review of […]
Executive Produced, Written (Also Story By), and Directed by Larry Cohen Any discussion of A Return to Salem’s Lot has to begin and end with Sam Fuller (yes, I am aware he is credited in most of his films as Samuel Fuller, but it seems wrong not to refer to him as Sam). A journalist, […]
Screenplay by Larry Cohen Before he was a prolific spec screenwriter, he was a prolific independent filmmaker, and before he was a prolific independent filmmaker, Larry Cohen was a prolific television writer. In the ‘60s alone, he created four series and wrote episodes of thirteen other series, including such popular programs as The Defenders and […]
Be forewarned, if the MPAA rated this post, it would get an R. Ah, The King’s Speech, the classy little drama about King George VI (Colin Firth) attempting to overcome a speech impediment in time to symbolically lead Great Britain during World War II (I say symbolically because the King of England hasn’t wielded any […]
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