A ★★★★★ review of The Invisible Ray (1936) The Invisible Ray is a grandiose collision of science fiction, horror and globetrotting mystery. We begin in Boris Karloff’s lab as he unveils his discovery of a new kind of radiation through which he...

One of Universal’s best horror pictures hindered by a lack of a traditional monster and a dumbass title.

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A ★★★½ review of Samson and Delilah (1949) Lesser Cecil B. DeMille Biblical epic. It has all the basics: A-List movie stars, bright technicolor cinematography, showstopping special effects. It's just less of those things. Although Hedy Lamarr ...

Biblical Ordinary, more like.

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A ★★★★½ review of Angel's Egg (1985) A small girl with shocking white hair and an ambient glow holds a large egg under her dress giving the illusion she’s pregnant. She carries this egg with her as she searches a mostly abandoned, possib...

Anime about the liminal.

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A ★★★★ review of The Strange Woman (1946) Hedy Lamarr gets top billing as a born manipulator jockeying for social standing in 1820s port town of Bangor, Maine. We meet her as a child of the town drunk attempting to drown another child until A...

Another Hedy Lamarr picture, this time as a sociopath.

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A ★★★★ review of Algiers (1938) Remake of a French film called Pépé le Moko, Algiers is a Charles Boyer vehicle where he plays a jewelry fencer operating in the open in the Casbah but untouchable by the police due to his place in th...

Charles Boyer as the character Pepe LePew is based on.

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That is a deep cut T-shirt!

You weren’t riveted by Ice Cube clicking on files and then opening files and entering passwords?

This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd account showing the last four movies I watched which are The Stone Tape, King Kong, Ecstasy and Amazon’s War of the Worlds.

A British made-for-TV horror, my favorite movie, a sexy AF silent Hedy Lamarr picture and a feature length marketing advertisement by Amazon about how your data is safe with them.

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A ★½ review of War of the Worlds (2025) You’ve probably already heard how terrible Amazon’s War of the Worlds is. Ice Cube plays a surveillance technician for the government who seems to spend his day just randomly accessing cameras in Wash...

I’m Gen X so I hate anything that smacks of corporate pandering.

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A ★★★★★ review of Ecstasy (1933) Pre-Hollywood Hedy Lamarr stars in this Czechoslovakian film where Lamarr marries an older man who they would have described as fastidious back then but what we'd call obsessive-compulsive disorder no...

Sexy tragic romance that is easily one of the best.

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A ★★★★★ review of King Kong (1933) Rewatched this with the Criterion 1984 laserdisc Ronald Haver commentary. Criterion streaming has that and a few of their other out-of-print movies with supplementaries. I've owned this movie on VHS, ...

Criterion streaming channel has the Ronald Haver commentary from their out-of-print laserdisc of my favorite movie.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Stone Tape (1972) Paranormal sci-fi might be my favorite sub-subgenre. Movies where a team of scientists investigate supernatural phenomena using technology and theoretical physics. The most famous examples are The Hau...

Made for BBC TV paranormal sci-fi.

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I mean, that’s one of his basic tenants. Like, he has multiple parables about being weak on crime and how that’s what you should be.

Euphoria drama, maybe? And also Sydney Sweeney made a white supremacist denim commercial? I don’t know. I don’t care about celebrity stuff.

A ★★★ review of The Housemaid (2025) The Housemaid is based on a popular book starring people who are currently in the limelight for some kind of celebrity drama. It’s about a woman living out of her car getting hired by a super rich cou...

Passable thriller with some behind the scenes drama, I guess.

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A ★★★½ review of Primate (2025) Super rich people have a house on a cliff in Hawaii and a pet chimpanzee because they’re idiots. I mean, chimps are freaky strong and they can’t be reasoned with. Why would you want them around your k...

Chimpanzee is a dumb choice for a pet.

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A ★★★★½ review of Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (was “Frankenstein and the Monster on Steroids” already taken?) is the final Hammer Frankenstein film. We open with the second Doctor in the Doctor Who series Patrick Troughton doing a bit of grave robbing we assume for Frankenstein. Nope, it’s a different doctor played by Shane Briant. But maybe he’s Frankenstein’s assistant? Nope. He’s working alone. Briant gets discovered doing Frankensteinesque experiments and gets thrown in an insane asylum where

This is the seventh and final in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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A ★★★★ review of The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. Here we are on the sixth Hammer Frankenstein and for the first time the doctor is played by someone other than Peter Cushing. The Horror of Frankenstein is essentially a remake of the first Hammer Frankenstein film The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The basics are the same with only the details changed. Instead of his family dying from assumed natural causes, this straight-up sociopath murders his father when he refuses to allow him to go to

This is the sixth in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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A ★★★½ review of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. Here we are on the fifth Hammer Frankenstein and, even though the good doctor is played by Peter Cushing again, this one is also unrelated to the previous four. Wow, does this one start off with a bang! An unknown figure wearing spats is stalking old timey London with a handheld scythe and relieves a man of his head in a spray of blood! The figure returns to a mansion in disrepair with decollated head in

This is the fifth in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which are The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Evil of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Created Woman.

I started watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein movies. So far I’ve seen Curse of…, Revenge of…, Evil of… and …Created Woman. All are various levels of great.

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A ★★★★ review of Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. Here we are on the fourth Hammer Frankenstein and, even though the good doctor is played by Peter Cushing again, this one is also unrelated to the previous three. All of this stuff is pseudoscience anyway but now Cushing is obsessed with the human soul. He performs an experiment by freezing himself to death for an hour. When his lush assistant shocks him back to life and he suffers no ill effects he concludes that his

This is the fourth in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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A ★★★★ review of The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. Universal Studios wasn't too keen on Hammer making movies based on the same characters they were famous for: the two previous Frankenstein films (1957, 1958), Dracula (1958), Mummy (1959) and Wolf Man (1961) pictures. But as long as Hammer didn't copy the likeness of the Universal versions, these public domain characters were fair game. Universal decided that instead of fighting them, that they would distribute these movies in the States. This change in rights is why

This is the third in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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A ★★★★½ review of The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. The second Hammer Frankenstein movie begins literally where...

This is the second in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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Ha ha ha!

A ★★★★½ review of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Hammer Film Productions made 7 Frankenstein movies and as a cinephile and completist I have decided to watch them all in release date order. The Curse of Frankenstein was Hammer's first color film dir...

This is the first in my series of watching all seven Hammer Frankenstein films.

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A ★★★½ review of From Beyond the Grave (1974) Amicus was a British movie production company that generated 28 genre pictures over the course of 15 years in the 60s and 70s. They're very Hammer-reminiscent but mostly because they were British, the...

The Last Amicus anthology horror film.

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A ★★★★★ review of Night Moves (1975) Night Moves is an Arthur Penn movie from the mid-70s Neo Noir period. Gene Hackman in full 70s sideburns and mustache is a former football player turned missing persons investigator hired by a former ...

70s Neo Noir has something to say about change if you look for it.

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A ★★★★½ review of Hamnet (2025) Hamnet falls under the historical fiction subgenre. It attempts to explain how William Shakespeare could write such amazing works of both comedy and tragedy but through the eyes of the woman he loved....

Yeah, it’s good. Pretty sad, though.

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A ★★★ review of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) With some simple adjustments, the George Pal produced adaptation of the popular Doc Savage series of novels could have been a smash hit. First, don’t open your movie with a radio announcer narration r...

Everything great about Doc Savage is in the principal photography and the visual effects. Everything that made it fail was in the audio track.

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