04 November 2019
26 January 2016
THE X FILES NEW SERIES OPENER REVIEW BY FRANK MENGARELLI
THIS COULD BE A CASE FOR MULDER AND SCULLY! THE MYSTERY OF THE RELAUNCHED CULT TV SHOW AND WHETHER IT CAN POSSIBLY BE ANY GOOD! MOVIE VIRAL SENT ITS BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER TO THE SCENE. (YES THAT IS A CONSPIRACY OF SORTS. Against YOU. Specifically. Yes, that’s...
20 October 2015
VIRAL VAULT BUILD UP TO HALLOWEEN MIKE BROWN REVISITS SHOCKER
FLASHBACK TO SHOCKER WITH MIKE BROWN Shocker might be my favorite Wes Craven film. At least the one I can watch over and over again and still be entertained by. Nightmare On Elm Street comes close. But there is something so electrifying about Shocker that just makes it so...
24 September 2015
NICK CLEMENT ON 20 YEARS OF DAVID FINCHER’S SEVEN THE DEFINITIVE SERIAL KILLER THRILLER
SEVEN: THE LEGACY NICK CLEMENT REVIEWS DAVID FINCHER’S MASTERPIECE, TWENTY YEARS ON 1995. Fall. A film arrives from almost nowhere: it is called SEVEN. It was the movie that reinvented the serial killer thriller. And it confirmed the directorial vision and genius of DAVID FINCHER. Also helped confirm Brad...
THE VIRAL VAULT BLUE VELVET WITH JD LAFRANCE
BLUE VELVET By J.D. Lafrance By 1984, director David Lynch was on top of the world. He had received critical acclaim and eight Academy Award nominations for The Elephant Man in 1980 and was on the verge of releasing his next film, Dune (1984), an adaptation of...
10 September 2015
THROWBACK THURSDAY NICK CLEMENT INVESTIGATES SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
THROWBACK THURSDAY NICK CLEMENT INVESTIGATES SILENCE OF THE LAMBS With HANNIBAL having come to its final end on television, now is an opportune moment to look back at its cinematic precedents. MANHUNTER from MICHAEL MANN was of course excellent (featuring BRIAN COX as Hannibal). HANNIBAL from RIDLEY SCOTT was...
