Review: Jurassic Park (1993)
JURASSIC PARK deserves the highest of all praise: it actually lived up to its hype when it was released in
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Film Reviews
Reviews horror movies, fantasy films, and science fiction cinema screening in Los Angeles.
Film Review: Child’s Play (2019)
This is not your grandfather’s Chucky, and that’s a good thing – though not good enough to make the new Child’s
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Retro Review: Terminator 2 (1991)
Terminator 2 is a rare sequel that lives up to and in some ways even exceeds the original. Whereas THE
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Review: Toy Story 4 in D-Box
Adding a dash of creepiness to the usual formula, Toy Story 4 exceeds expectations by – ahem – toying with
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Review: Princess Mononoke (1999)
In Princess Mononoke, anime-auteur Hayao Miyazaki offers sophisticated storytelling and beautiful animation. Feature film animation was once monopolized by Disney;
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Review: The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
The Dead Don’t Die is so deadpan it could be the first film suffering from negative affect. Anyone familiar with
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Retro Review: The Green Slime (1968)
Although the steaming pile of electrified goo that is The Green Slime never coalesces into anything resembling a good movie,
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Viewing Godzilla on the Big Screen: IMAX, 3D, MX4D, ScreenX
Regardless of whether one thinks the human story of Godzilla, King of the Monsters is big enough to hold its
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Review: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)
Lacks the dramatic resonance of 1954’s Gojira but offers king-sized entertainment for those willing to go along for the ride. We live
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Dark Knight trilogy returning to IMAX theatres
In celebration of Batman’s 80th birthday, Warner Brothers will screen Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy in a series of special
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Review: Replicas
Never fully answers the questions it raises, but that almost seems to be the point. In these days of home
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Review: Anna and the Apocalypse
It’s a gory zom-com – with songs. Lots of songs. More songs than zombies. Too many songs, really. I love
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Film Review: Patient Zero
Patient Zero asks the intriguing question: If George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead (1985) were re-imagined as a sequel to
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