by K Hogaboom | Mar 15, 2016 | blog
In the opening moments of sci-fi horror/drama Solaris, psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) spends a last day on earth with a retired and shattered colleague, as well as his own aunt and father. Kelvin is about to embark to a hobbled space station... 
by K Hogaboom | Feb 8, 2016 | featured
I remember reading on the now-defunct website for the excellent action comedy Black Dynamite (2009) that there are something like six hundred films categorized as Blaxploitation. The genre – notable for its violence (particularly against and between black men),... 
by K Hogaboom | Aug 20, 2015 | featured
Colossus: The Forbin Project is a tight little AI-drama starring some television royalty (including Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, and Gordon Pinsent in an ensemble cast) that will probably please those who love those sorts of films. The very premise of the film –... 
by K Hogaboom | May 23, 2015 | featured
A B-grade Spanish horror film that went on to spawn three sequels, TotBD starts out slow, delivers a promising middle act, and deteriorates in the final third. Great-looking – if slow-moving – zombies (or vampires, or ghouls, or whatever you’d call... 
by K Hogaboom | Apr 18, 2015 | blog
I watched this film many years ago, and recently re-watched as homework for the Bmoviecast podcast. Seeing it as a child, it seems it was one of those films that contributed to my impression of the seventies being an uninspired, alienating experience in Western life....
