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I already saw JASON X, thanks to a friend (no, I don't have it on me). A couple of amusing bits, perhaps, but ultimately stupid as hell (and an ALIENS ripoff, to boot). Why was ROLLERBALL held up? So they could cut the fucker down from an R to a PG-13! Bye-bye gore, bye-bye nudity (from Rebecca Romj...

I've been to LA frequently, but I live in Marina, which is a Northern California coastal town about a 90m-2hr drive from San Francisco. It's been a few years since I've driven out of town for a movie (not counting the drive-in in nearby Scotts Valley)--I spent a day in San Jose to catch CEMETERY MAN...

Robert--remind me again where you live? How you're able to see all of those things? BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, for Pete's sake? You caught that on the big screen or on tape? I've only been teased by the trailer! Just curious... ------------------ "Nya-nya, nya-nya, nyahh-nyahh... I made you eat y...

THE GIFT, eh? Films like that and SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE fell through the cracks because they were 2000 releases that only played a few houses in December for the Oscars--even if the rest of the country saw them in 2001. It was a decent enough release (and provided Keanu Reeves with one of his best r...

Enjoyed plenty of your favorites, too--they just didn't make the "horror" list. I should have mentioned that CHOPPER was one of the best of the year, with some of the most intense gore, to boot (I feel compelled to mention again that NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE actually had one of the best gore...

Forgive the gag in the header--this is the only time in history that I'll ever use it, after all... The horror movie year of 2001 was FINALLY better than the deadly 2000--mainly due to a late rally, as it sure didn't get off to all that great a start. Dedicated application of deceptively simple conc...

Caught it with the wife and daughter last night, and we were all blown away--no time for details right now, but Latte summed it up right from the start. All that and Christopher Lee! Excellent troll, excellent fire demon, hellacious battle scenes--a great way to end the year, all told.

"Year in Review" will be up tonight--thanks for the thought.

Meantime, the very best of new years to my Mortado's friends!

...to all my friends at Mortado's. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and every other celebration you may or may not be into!

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"Nya-nya, nya-nya, nyahh-nyahh... I made you eat your parents!!!" --Cartman

David--no, haven't seen LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL--should I? If I notice it around, I'll rent it. Dylan--if it hadn't been for that ending, I would have said the same thing--the film was, frankly, a bore up till then (but a well-acted bore--I refuse to say anything bad about the cast). The seduction s...

Considering what's done with the underage actresses involved, I suppose I should mention off the bat that even though this is a film by Catherine Breillart (ROMANCE), there is NO actual hardcore material. What we're left with is disturbing enough. FAT GIRL is another recent critics' favorite: it's a...

Well... Cameron Crowe has certainly made a good film in VANILLA SKY--the trouble is, the good film he made was done a couple of years back as ABRE LOS OJOS/OPEN YOUR EYES! Yes, I know this is an acknowledged remake of the Alejandro Amenabar film as opposed to a ripoff, and I know that it takes Tom C...

According to most of the critics, I'm the least likely person to go see NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE. Ah, but I remember actually seeing THE BREAKFAST CLUB on the big screen... I may never have cared a damn to see such works of art as CAN'T HARDLY WAIT and SHE'S ALL THAT, but I'm always up for a good skew...

Noone's going to jump in on this one? Well, leave it to the local family man... I suppose I'm as big a fan of the Harry Potter books as anyone else--as I'm fond of saying, I'd be reading them even if I didn't have children to read them aloud to. These rank right up there with the Oz books, the Narni...

I wanted to like this--I like Steve Martin and I like Helena Bonham Carter... and for the record, I disagree completely with the critics who say that they were miscast in this film. "Novocaine" is well-acted and well-made--but it simply fails to work. This noir throwback should have left s...

Forrest J. Ackerman, the best friend of horror fans around the world and a man to whom I owe a personal debt that I can never repay, will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday on Saturday, November 24th. Please join me in wishing him many happy returns at scifibiz@aol.com and let him know how much he'...

I never did get to see the Steve Guttenberg version of THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE in its original 3-D, I must confess. What I got was a grainy, flat, eyestrain-inducing video version--but still, it was nothing more than a silly "invisible man" comedy with the typical naughty jokes and a litt...

Never mind that it's a French romantic comedy by description--if you liked DELICATESSEN, CITY OF LOST CHILDREN or ALIEN RESURRECTION, you'll want to see AMELIE, because director Jean-Pierre Jeunet can transform absolutely anything into an enchanting fantasy. I get a little tired of people praising t...

Just to clarify, GAMMERA THE INVINCIBLE is the American version of the VERY first Gamera movie (not the new 90s series)--the first Kaneko film came out here as GAMERA, GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE. There have not, as yet, been U.S. releases of ATTACK OF THE LEGION or THE REVENGE OF IRIS--as for that one...

Guess what. Strippers don't lead glamorous lives. You might have arrived at that conclusion on your own, but here's a movie determined to rub it in your face: there's such an abundance of cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, unwanted pregnancies, shattered dreams and domestic abuse on display here that it's ...

I won't make a huge case for this being "horror," but honestly--could you call it "Beaten Track" mainstream? Always great to hear from David Lynch, and yes, what you've heard from the critics is true: this is one of his most compulsively watchable films ever. I can't begin to gue...

By all means, go for it! REMO D.'S MANOR OF MAYHEM is in the editing stages, as we've already shot all thirteen episodes. Like you, we're working on an assumed "public domain/unlicensed" deal with our movies (starting with the Naschy classic ASSIGNMENT TERROR), and expect nothing more than...

I always like to take time out this time of year and send you my best regards and wishes for the future. I usually choose the same words, but I always mean them-- May the movies you watch be good. (Easier said than done? Who said they had to be new?) May your projects pan out. (Most assuredly. Plan ...

(response to Robert's previous post--they're not all showing up at the right time for me to answer in sequence, apparently) Point taken, but my reason for invoking 1999 and 2000 was to state that I liked the 1999 lineup, for the most part--a great variety of approaches to the genre from subtlety to ...

**I think this Remo guy's thoughts are quite obviously on the original, not the remake. ** "This Remo guy" has been calling them as he sees them for longer than he cares to remember. I believe my remarks speak for themselves and I stand by them with acute awareness of the brand new movie I...