Homage Or Horrific: The Unholy (1988) | Episode 2

Camilo Vela’s The Unholy is certainly watchable though there’s a problem when there’s another movie that has virtually the same story beats. It gets worse when the movie comes before it, in this case eleven years. And that movie is Michael Winner’s The Sentinel (1977) and when I say that it shares story beats in […]

‘American Horror Story’ Copies ‘The Sentinel?’

If you have not seen “American Horror Story,” or “The Sentinel” but want to with an open mind–or just hate spoilers–read no further. I have been watching the first season of Ryan Murphy’s and Brad Falchuk’s “American Horror Story” recently, and while I have been enjoying it–despite its tendency to be very emotionally overwrought–I have come to notice […]

‘Seven Psychopaths’ Red Band Trailer

“Seven Psychopaths” stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Tom Waits, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken. It was directed by Martin McDonagh, who also did “In Bruges,” which I have heard is a very entertaining, though I have yet to see it. Though not billed as such, “Seven Psychopaths” feels to me like a must-see film, bordering on […]