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Falling Down

‘Falling Down’ (1993) is worth snapping up as a vicarious thrill

I got the DVD of “Falling Down” (1993) from the library and it didn’t work in my DVD player. So I broke the disc in

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Walking Tall

‘Walking Tall’ (1973) walks the walk and talks the talk

It’s hard to go wrong with a 1970s car-chase, shoot-out, bar-fight kind of film. “Walking Tall” (1973) has fairly modest ambitions. It wants to tell

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Superman 2025

James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ is very Gunn and very 2025

If someone watched Richard Donner’s “Superman” in 1978 then was time-jumped 47 years to watch James Gunn’s “Superman,” they might be wowed by the advances

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Have His Carcase

‘Have His Carcase’ (1932) coasts along with multiple intrigues

Without abandoning her obsession with detail, Dorothy L. Sayers follows the borderline unreadable “Five Red Herrings” with one of her elite novels, “Have His Carcase”

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Sorority Row

‘Sorority Row’ (2009) lines up worst traits of the Naughties

What horror film is the most Naughties? Not the best or the worst, but the one that most encompasses the formulaic excesses of unoriginality (remaking

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Pulp Fiction

‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) ingeniously makes the whole film into a maguffin

Considering that Quentin Tarantino isn’t a fan of Alfred Hitchcock (instead preferring filmmakers who took Hitch’s baton), it’s ironic that “Pulp Fiction” (1994) is Tarantino’s

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TMNT 2003

What are they doing with Turtles in space?! A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 2 (2003-04)

Although the Mirage comics are great, they are also experimental and stream-of-consciousness in those heady early days, and they mark the first time young writers

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Five Red Herrings

Good Lord, ‘Five Red Herrings’ (1931) has a lot of logistical details

Dorothy L. Sayers inadvertently raises the question of how much detail is too much in “The Five Red Herrings” (1931), her sixth Lord Peter Wimsey

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Karate Kid Legends

Despite team-up, ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ is legendarily dull

If “Karate Kid: Legends” was merely a flat sequel to 2010’s “Karate Kid” – about the next kid, Li Fong (Ben Wang), mentored by Jackie

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Species

Giger, Henstridge, weirdly great cast keep ‘Species’ (1995) going

There was only one H.R. Giger (1940-2014) – and his creepily sexual creature-design work will never be confused with anyone else’s – but there was

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