While Warner Brothers may have some issues with its DC Extended Universe, it’s horror films set in The Conjuring Universe continue to do their job, deliver some solid scares (and some mediocre ones) and usually attracts solid casts. The Curse of La Llorona is the sixth film in the shared universe, connected, in this case,…
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Death Becomes Her (1992) – Robert Zemeckis
The next ‘zombie’ title to be featured in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies is the Robert Zemeckis big budget effects spectacular, so amazing in fact that the scored the film an Academy Award. Starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis and Isabella Rossellini, the film is a dark comedy that deals with age, beauty,…
21 Grams (2003) – Alejandro G. Inarritu
The next title on the What Else to Watch list in DK Canada’s The Movie Book, following my screening of The Sweet Hereafter is 21 Grams, which has a strong emotional punch to its unique storytelling narrative. Filled with flash forwards and flashbacks, the tale reveals terrible emotional moments throughout, and then lets us build…
War of the Worlds (1990) – Candle in the Night, and Video Messiah
The war rages on with this week’s installment of War of the Worlds, even as the end of the second (and final season) draws nigh. Candle in the Night was written by Carl Binder and it first aired on 8 April, 1990. In the midst of all the horror that is the post-apocalyptic world that…
Mystic River (2003) – Clint Eastwood
The next film from DK Canada’s The Movie Book as I tackle the What Else to Watch list following my screening of The Sweet Hereafter is this exemplary film from Clint Eastwood. The movie stars Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. The film follows three childhood friends,…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1998) – Afterimage, and Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Station log: stardate unknown Rene Ehevarria pens this episode that first aired on 14 October, 1998. Afterimage focuses on Sisko’s (Avery Brooks) efforts to convince Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) to stay on the station, as she struggles to get to know Jadzia’s friends, especially Worf (Micheal Dorn). Garak (Andrew Robinson) engages us with a…
Moonlighting (1985) – Gunfight at the So-So Corral, and Read the Mind… See the Movie
Maddie’s (Cybill Shepherd) first full day at the Blue Moon Detective Agency office doesn’t go as well as she hopes in the first episode this week. Written by Micheal Petryni, Gunfight at the So-So Corral, the first episode after the pilot, debuted on 5 March, 1985. When the office is slow, David Addison (Bruce Willis)…
Star Trek: Voyager (1998) – Night, and Drone
Captain’s log: stardate 52081. 2 Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky pen the season five opener which first aired on 14 October, 1998. The Voyager, continuing its journey home, they are passing through a region of space with no planets, no stars, just an empty void for two months, and it is beginning to wear on…
Dead Alive (1992) – Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson’s wonderfully over the top gore fest horror comedy, Dead Alive aka Braindead is the next zombie title to stumble out of the catacombs of the zombie genre as featured in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Mocies book. By turns hilarious, and bloody, the film is so extreme in its kills, and it’s gore, in…
Pet Sematary (1989) – Mary Lambert
DK Canada’s Monster in the Movies continues to guide me through their chapter on zombies, and Paramount’s first adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel arguably falls well within the realm of the undead. It became a cult classic, and the film has aged fairly well, it is, however, populated with television actors, which at…
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