The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
September 14, 2025The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon...
True Blood Recap: Season 4 Bites Deep (But Doesn’t Suck)
September 7, 2025For those who have not been scared off by now, I think we could all use...
A Brief Apology To Final Destination 5
September 1, 2025My recent review awarded Final Destination a moderate "star" rating - for the benefit of the...
The Weekly Listicle: There Goes The Neighborhood
August 30, 2025Forget good fences, and forget good neighbors. Characters in movies and television are far more compelling...
Best And Worst Movies Of 2011, Part 1
August 23, 2025We the critics of the Fourth Wall - Julia Rhodes, Brett Davinger, and myself - devote...
In Case You Missed… Christopher Smith’s Black Death
August 20, 2025Most movies like Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with...
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: “Dear Twilight…”
August 13, 2025Somewhere in the Twilight cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold...
I Am NOT An Animal! (But I Play One In The Movies)
August 12, 2025Putting animal antics into movies is a perennially popular way to cobble up a goofball family...
Insecurity Deposits: Catching Up With Hammer’s The Resident
August 9, 2025The Resident is nicely paced, moodily presented, eerily scored and based upon a very creepy idea....




