Category: Looking Back

The final scene of 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut takes place in a toy store. As Dr. Bill Harford and his wife, […]

Until 1968, the term “zombie” was used to refer to the Haitian folklore belief of reanimating a dead body through magical […]

One of the music cues Donald Trump used during his presidential campaign  was from the soundtrack for Air Force One, a movie […]

There’s aging badly and then there’s Revenge of the Nerds. What passed for collegiate underdog hijinks in 1984 goes by different […]

At face value, 1981’s Neighbors is The Blues Brothers Take Suburbia. The yellowed cover of my VHS copy calls it “A […]

Joe Dante knew he’d made it in Hollywood when a grip on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) pointed […]

One of the most anticipated films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. The Civil […]

As the world teeters on the brink of Transformers: The Last Knight, Craig J. Clark has finally reached the end of […]

This week marks the 30th anniversary of John McTiernan’s action/sci-fi blockbuster Predator. It was the first credited movie role for the […]

As the world edges closer and closer to the release of Transformers: The Last Knight, Craig J. Clark is mapping the […]

Fictional monsters have often been used to examine the “other” within ourselves. But the various incarnations of The Mummy — in […]