The kaiju movie Yeti: Giant Of The 20th Century is a co-production between Canada and Italy, and – hey, why are you laughing?
King Dung
Mar 24
With it being a Christian take on IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, it’s no wonder Second Glance ends up being extremely ridiculous.
Funny money
Mar 4
A Chinese remake of BREWSTER’S MILLIONS? Well, why not? Hello Mr. Billionaire turns out to be a pretty decent comedy.
Lots of unintended inter-film echoes in this one. Killers with gas masks. Deep South swamp monsters produced by genetic meddling. Characters named Tom and Sara. Nigh-unwatchable parodies. Point-missing adaptations. Movies that got the way they are because somebody figured they were too cheap not to be cheesy. Jerks played by Josh Gad. Intervals of 28 years…
Deathstalker II (1987), in which Jim Wynorski first becomes JIM WYNORSKI…
Don’t Go in the House (1979), in which I suppose we can’t really call him a slasher when his weapon of choice is an army-surplus flamethrower…
Doom (2005), in which you might just barely recognize an element or two from the source games if you squint hard and hit yourself on the head with a hammer…
Kids Go to the Woods… Kids Get Dead (2009), which I fully admit I brought on myself…
Little Monsters (2019), which must surely be the only romcom in which zombies eat children…
Mark of the Beast (2012), in which you might recognize the source story, but you won’t understand why they treated it this way…
My Bloody Valentine (2009), which manages to be one of the better horror remakes of the aughts mainly because that’s one of the easiest leagues around…
Razortooth (2009), which tries to get away with mutating Asian swamp eels into giant viperfish…
Terror in the Swamp (1984), which tries to get away with mutating a nutria into a killer Bigfoot…
and…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), in which teenaged maniacs cosplaying as Jimmy Saville make life difficult for an elderly man who just wants to listen to old Duran Duran records and shoot morphine with his giant, naked rage-zombie pal.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
It has worn well
Feb 22
R.I.P. Robert Duvall. Overlooked, compared to many other 1970s crime dramas, The Outfit deserves to stand next to the well-known ones.
Mellow fellow
Feb 12
Pop singer Donovan plays the title figure in The Pied Piper, a G-rated movie that will freak out your kids.
Throwing mayhem on the barbie with John Doe: Vigilante, an offbeat Aussie actioner.
It’s a Canadian “Thing”
Jan 23
While it has more than a passing resemblance to a certain John Carpenter movie, Black Mountain Side actually isn’t bad for a Canadian cheapie.
No Go-Go boys? No go
Jan 13
Made without either Menahem Golan or Yoram Globus, the Cannon film The Human Shield understandably won’t completely satisfy fans of the company.
Oh, Falk!
Jan 3
Just before getting his first Oscar nomination, Peter Falk appeared in the Canadian film The Bloody Brood, and, like, it’s cool, daddy-o.