Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik grabbed my attention quite forcefully with Chopper over a decade ago.  I was fairly obsessed with that film for a good long w...

The Wayne Gale Variety Hour Episode 2: 90's Films

This is the podcast I've been waiting to do since I got in the podcast game.  The Wayne Gale Variety Hour Episode 2 is here ! Danno and ...

Shloggs Speaks: The Wayne Gale Variety Hour Episode 1: ZOMBIES!!!

I am elated to announce the debut episode of my new podcast, The Wayne Gale Variety Hour !  This show is the brainchild of myself and my goo...

Cloud Atlas

It goes to show you how malleable a thing expectation can be, especially when it comes to film.  I recently bemoaned being compelled to see...

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver has evolved into many different films to me over the 20 years I've been studying it. I first became aware of it from seeing...

A World of Unending Horror

I just finished reading The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal and was so captivated, I decided to flip back to th...

You know what's great?: Hostel

You know what's great? Hostel: Eli Roth's 2005 paean to the exploitative impulses inherent in the ignorant and entitled American mal...

Antichrist

I just finished watching the Criterion Collection Bluray of Lars VonTrier's Antichrist. I read the Ian Christie essay and watched most ...

My 5 favorite films: Videodrome

It's been a while since I made an entry in the favorite films series (having a hell of a time finishing off those last 2!). In honor of ...

The Blood of cowards

In the last couple of weeks, I've revisited what I believe to be the 2 most important American films of the new millennium. The Assassin...

Splice: One man's critical appraisal

There are a great deal many reasons why Splice is such a breath of fresh air to theatrical horror. It's devoid of insipid, superficial t...

My 5 favorite films: Film 1: Natural Born Killers

My five favorite films are as follows (in no particular order): Natural Born Killers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellbound : Hellraiser 2...

Not nearly crazy enough

I went and saw the remake of Romero's The Crazies today. Having thought the original was a meandering, pointless stop-gap between NOTLD...