Bombs Bursting in Air: The Other Black Sunday (1977) By Orrin Grey • March 15th, 2023 The movie’s producer, Robert Evans, quotes Henry Kissinger in telling him, “You can’t make it a political picture. You can’t take sides. You can’t make it anti or pro anyone.” How much they succeeded or failed at that is up for debate.
For the Good of All Mankind: The Two Earliest Films Starring the Silver Masked Man By Orrin Grey • March 2nd, 2023 The state of these pictures can be attributed to the fact that they were the first of their kind, filmed simultaneously, on a shoestring budget and in quite a hurry.
Dreams & Nightmares: Invaders from Mars (1953) Painstakingly Restored on 4K By Orrin Grey • January 26th, 2023 Ignite Films has planted their flag as a company to watch for what their own logline calls “classics for the future.”
Run It Back 1966 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 25th, 2023 Freedom is one of those fundamental and recurring items in how we think about the world we live in and our place in it. There are few times where this was clearer than in 1966.
It’s a Boneyard: Revisiting Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) on 4K By Orrin Grey • January 19th, 2023 Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is a fairly accurate portrait of what macabre weirdos like us got up to – or imagined ourselves getting up to – in the days before we had the internet to distract us.
Rookie of the Year Ranking the Gremlins Gizmos By Matt Marrone • January 6th, 2023 In honor of Rand Peltzer, we have decided to rank the unappreciated genius’ six greatest gizmos, from worst to first.
Interlinked Gremlin Girl Energy By Phoenix Simms • January 5th, 2023 Greta is both a problem and a potential solution to that problem, but when read under a more feminist-revisionist lens, she’s charmingly camp, she’s a 90s icon and she’s absolutely that bitch.
Meat and Potatoes Country: Nightmare at Noon (1988) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2022 To an enormous extent, your enjoyment of (and even tolerance for) Nightmare at Noon will rely largely on how much affection you have for these actors, since they’re the beating heart of the film.
Past Presence Enter the Gremlins By Emily Price • December 23rd, 2022 Emily’s (live) reactions to the movie, time stamped if you want to watch along.
Feature Story On Gremlin-tology By David Shimomura • December 21st, 2022 As humans, we like to have answers as to why. Why did my brand-new air fryer work only once? Why did my car just sputter and stop? Why did that airplane go down for seemingly no reason? Gremlins.
