Usually on Test of Time we are looking at heavy hitter franchises or big-ticket movies from the biggest of big-name horror directors. If we looked at Carpenter, we could look at things like The Thing or Escape From New York and ask the stupidest question in the world, like if they stand the test of time and what their influences would be. For Hooper, you could give Texas Chainsaw 2 a whirl or see if Lifeforce makes any more damn sense now than it did when it came out. The answers to these and many more questions in a Mount Rushmore horror creators list of credits would be yes, yes, they are quite good. Next Question. So really, when you are playing with the big boys you have to go a little deeper, look at the lesser known and often less discussed movies in their bag of goodies. Today we...
- 1/31/2024
- by Andrew Hatfield
- JoBlo.com
Wes Craven’s best films are all driven by ideas, whether it’s a boogeyman who can kill you in your sleep or that same fictional boogeyman gaining real-world power from our collective fear. When those ideas combined with politics or social issues, the results were Craven’s rare “message” movies — raw nerves transformed into horror films as a way for the filmmaker to express his outrage. 1991’s The People Under the Stairs is Craven’s first real “message” movie since the one-two punch of The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes. It’s also one of his most underrated.
Less a horror film than it is a pitch black comedy, The People Under the Stairs is Wes Craven’s most overtly political film. There’s nothing apologetic about it and, like Joe Dante would later do in Homecoming, Craven has something he wants to say...
Less a horror film than it is a pitch black comedy, The People Under the Stairs is Wes Craven’s most overtly political film. There’s nothing apologetic about it and, like Joe Dante would later do in Homecoming, Craven has something he wants to say...
- 8/15/2015
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Ah, so, we're doing this again? Above is the trailer to A Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, the third part of what feels like a neverending series of children's films pretending to educate your child about history. Ben Stiller is back because Ben Stiller isn't a businessman, he's a business, man. And this time, his security guard Larry is tasked with porting the museum's many magical inhabitants to England, befitting a series that is absolutely huge overseas. It seems like some of the action spills out into the city this time around, so maybe they have a bigger budget. They'd have to, considering the theoretical raises everyone must have received to come back: also returning for this installment is Robin Williams' President Roosevelt, Ricky Gervais' Dr. McPhee and the trio of Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cobb and Mickey Rooney (in his final role). Also returning...
- 7/30/2014
- cinemablend.com
DC Comics delivers another great Bat-Family graphic novel with Nightwing Volume 2: Night of the Owls. The hardcover collection contains issues 0 and 8 through 12 of the monthly title. It consists of three different story arcs that continue to show the grown-up Boy Wonder can hold his own inside and outside Gotham City.
"Bloodlines" and "The Gray Son" pit Nightwing against a powerful agent of the Court of Owls. His name is William Cobb and he is Dick Grayson's great-grandfather, trained by Haly's Circus to be a Talon since childhood. Can Nightwing foil Cobb's assassination attempt on Gotham City's mayor?
"The Tomorrow People," "Tomorrow Can't Wait," and "Inside Out" throw Nightwing in the ring with an organization calling themselves the Republic of Tomorrow led by a masked figure named Paragon. The group is intent on cleansing Gotham City of its "false" heroes and killing Nightwing for the deaths of two of their members.
"Bloodlines" and "The Gray Son" pit Nightwing against a powerful agent of the Court of Owls. His name is William Cobb and he is Dick Grayson's great-grandfather, trained by Haly's Circus to be a Talon since childhood. Can Nightwing foil Cobb's assassination attempt on Gotham City's mayor?
"The Tomorrow People," "Tomorrow Can't Wait," and "Inside Out" throw Nightwing in the ring with an organization calling themselves the Republic of Tomorrow led by a masked figure named Paragon. The group is intent on cleansing Gotham City of its "false" heroes and killing Nightwing for the deaths of two of their members.
- 8/1/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
Chicago – The legend of a 1930s country hermit – part folk tale, part exaggeration and some truth – comes to life through director Aaron Schneider and the great Robert Duvall in the new film “Get Low.” Also featuring Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek, this character driven drama is a pastiche of secrets, regrets and redemption.
Robert Duvall is Felix Bush, a reclusive hermit in a log cabin amidst the emerging 20th Century of the 1930s. He causes a stir one day when he rides into the main town and wants to pay for his funeral. Funeral director Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) is willing to accommodate the old man, including his unusual request to conduct the funeral while he still lives. As word spreads of the odd arrangement, people start to emerge from Bush’s past, including an old love named Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek). The mystery of the old man starts to surface.
Robert Duvall is Felix Bush, a reclusive hermit in a log cabin amidst the emerging 20th Century of the 1930s. He causes a stir one day when he rides into the main town and wants to pay for his funeral. Funeral director Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) is willing to accommodate the old man, including his unusual request to conduct the funeral while he still lives. As word spreads of the odd arrangement, people start to emerge from Bush’s past, including an old love named Mattie Darrow (Sissy Spacek). The mystery of the old man starts to surface.
- 8/4/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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