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Ever Talk to a Corpse? David isn’t really a werewolf. It seems like it – after all, he spends a night in agonizing pain, growing out limbs, fangs, and …

Finger on Fast-Forward The best part of The Prey involves the discussion of a cucumber sandwich and subsequent eating of said sandwich. That’s by default. The Prey doesn’t hold …

Major Progress The important pieces of Major and the Minor happen in the opening act. It’s a little too easy to discredit the floofy romance that follows, one that …

Running From Honesty The Running Man performs a dance to the tune of morality’s ever changing center. As it begins, there’s a smug insurance agent who denies a claim …

Quite Cold You can date The Chill Factor to the early ‘90s a few ways. First, the influx of neon making its presence in the dress code. Second, the …

Romancing Immigration The poetic, romantic dialog spoken by star Charles Boyer is often grating and obvious in Hold Back the Dawn. But, that’s also on purpose – Boyer is …

Finsky Under the cover of the ‘80s, Weird Science gets away with two 14-ish year old boys showering with a 30-year old woman. It’s the boy’s fantasy after all. …

To Love, Peace, and Happiness The ’80s rebelled against Christmas. Gremlins took fire to consumerism on the studio side, and the low budget, VHS crud started dropping the Silent …

Error 601 There’s a moment late in Andromeda Strain when scientists realize the extent of a deadly virus they spent the movie researching. It’s a Manhattan Project allegory. The …

Man Against Time When author Kenneth Fearing wrote The Big Clock’s source novel, he worked at Time magazine, under publisher Henry Luce. Big Clock’s story concerns a barbarous publisher, …

Drug-induced Showdown After a post-WWII industrial boom, Japan’s economy through the ’70s started flattening. Illicit drugs became the norm, with rising addiction rates. The solution, at least according to …

Morals in Question Moving fast enough to at times appear like an 80-minute fight montage, Sister Street Fighter’s first sequel use as much delirium as its predecessor. Diamond thieves …