The latest in a series of essays about classic, awful films.This is a very special edition of Cinema Craptastíque, wherein I’ll review some very awful films I might not otherwise have seen, were they not featured in Mike Nelson’s series …
On April 14th, 1912, widowed preacher John Harper kissed his six-year-old daughter Nana on the forehead before lowering her down into a lifeboat. “I’ll see you again someday,” he called to her, as he disappeared into the chaos on board …
The latest in a series of essays about classic, awful films. Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers (1997) holds a special place in my heart right next to those animatronic singing fish people hang over their mantles. Difference is, the plastic fish could serve a …
Who hasn’t read Mark Twain’s classic Tom Sawyer and thought to themselves, after closing the back cover and placing the book gently on a nearby table, “Now that was a fine work of classic American fiction, but it just felt like something …
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The first in a new series of essays about classic, horrible films. At some point in the early 1990’s, James Cameron must have decided he was coming off as too talented. After directing four completely watchable action films (The Terminator, Aliens, …