by Howard Zimmerman | Apr 28, 2015 | Movies, Science Fiction
In Hollywood, too much of a good thing is clearly never enough. Successful films and franchises must be sequeled unto death . . . and beyond. Especially if they are genre movies and franchises. At a recent viewing of Ex Machina (which I thought was...
by Howard Zimmerman | May 29, 2014 | Movies
I spent time over the Memorial Day weekend catching up on the current genre films. I saw Spider-Man 2 and the latest remake of Godzilla. Here in New York, to see these in a first-run house, it cost $17.50 per seat. Yes, the seats were reserved in...
by Howard Zimmerman | Apr 17, 2014 | Horror, Movies
My list of scary movies concludes with a chiller that is not gothic but rather psychological horror. It pits an innocent, naïve young, female FBI agent-in-training against monumental evil. Directed by Jonathan Demme, for me, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)...
by Howard Zimmerman | Apr 17, 2014 | Horror, Movies
Most of the scary movies on my list so far have been of the gothic horror variety—small groups trapped in small spaces . . . with a monster of some kind knocking them off, one at a time. The next film on my list also of that genre. But it’s even more insidious...
by Howard Zimmerman | Apr 14, 2014 | Horror, Movies
So far, my list has included The Thing (1951), Invaders from Mars(1953), and Psycho (1960). Now we jump ahead to 1975 for the scariest movie ever made by one of America’s best filmmakers of the past century. It is Steven Spielberg’s adaptation...
