The X-Files Retrospective: Jersey Devil
Season 1, Episode 5—The Jersey Devil This review contains spoilers. “I heard the same story when I was a kid, too. Funny thing is, I believed it.” A corpse with gnawed-off body parts discovered outside Atlantic City is thought to…
The X-Files Retrospective: Conduit
Season 1, Episode 4—Conduit Mulder is attracted to a tabloid story about a teenage girl’s abduction by aliens and petitions the FBI to make it a legitimate X-Files case—a move that angers his superiors and gives Scully pause. Believing the…
The X-Files Retrospective: Squeeze
Season 1, Episode 3—Squeeze “Is there any way to get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?” —Mulder, after coming into contact with bile. A string of murders in Baltimore, Maryland, implies a certain X-Files motif after…
The X-Files Retrospective: Deep Throat
Season 1, Episode 2—Deep Throat “Let’s just say this case has a distinct smell to it. A certain… paranormal bouquet.” After presenting a new case to Scully (the disappearance of a disturbed military test pilot in Idaho), Mulder is confronted…
The X-Files Retrospective: Pilot
With the 33rd anniversary of The X-Files, I’ve decided to rewatch the show in its entirety—for about the 10th time!—and write a perspective/review of each episode. I expect this project will take me well into 2027 since there are 202…
The Thing From Another World, The Thing ’82 and ’11
The Thing From Another World – 1951, US, 86m. Director: Christian Nyby. Streaming: Tubi The Thing – 1982, US, 108m. Director: John Carpenter. Streaming: Peacock The Thing – 2011, US, 103m. Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Streaming: Peacock THE THING…
SCI-FI/FANTASY MONTH: The Blob, Cabin in the Woods, and Resident Evil ’21
THE BLOB (1988) d: Chuck Russell. c: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch, Joe Seneca, Candy Clark, Jeffrey DeMunn, Del Close. A near-perfect remake of the 1950s monster flick that not only improves upon the original’s special FX but expands…
SPOTLIGHT: The FINAL DESTINATION Series
FINAL DESTINATION (2000) d: James Wong. c: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristin Cloke, Seann William Scott, Chad Donella, Tony Todd. A first-rate thrill ride from beginning to end, this giddy, grim chiller pits a group of survivors of…
SCI-FI/FANTASY MONTH: Alien vs. Predator, John Dies at the End, The Omega Man, and Videodrome
ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004) d: Paul W. S. Anderson. c: Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan. This unabashedly fun merging of two of the biggest sci-fi/horror franchises of the ’80s has a group of…