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The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. With the recent release of Room 237, an entertaining read more

Even if I posted a list of the Top Horror films of All time just yesterday, I think that the real Horror happened here on the East Coast. Our thoughts and best wishes are for the people in the trouble all along the Coast from Virginia to the North East of North America. Sometimes real events take t read more

Making lists and compiling tops of movies is one of my pleasures. In fact, when I started this film related blog it was one of the things that got me into Website building and Blogging. When I decided to dedicate the month of October to Horror Films I had one major list I was taking my picks on: read more

 Every year since my girlfriend (now my wife) and I are together we used to carve a pumpkin together and light it on Hallows’ Eve and put it on the porch in front of her parent’s house. With the time we got more ambitious and we made crazy, funny designs. We even did a Jack Skelling read more

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. In the 1950’s there were many Sci-Fi films released with low budgets and many others were B-movies. A lot like many Films N read more

Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske, 1950) When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother. When the Disney Studios re-release one of their read more

The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961) A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. Starring Deborah Kerr, produced and directed by Jack Clayton, shot by cinematographer Freddie Francis who later would direct Horror classics at Hammer Films, and co-w read more

The Last Gladiators (Alex Gibney, 2011) In Ice Hockey no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price. Recently, the fine folks at Phase 4 Films have provided me a review copy of this Documentary about Hockey player Chris “Knu read more

Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. This B-Movie directed by French master Jacques Tourneur, stars Simone Simon as Irena Dubrovna, a Serbian woma read more

The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963) Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. Normally, this self proclaimed film critic would stay away from ghost stories and movies about sup read more

This series is a feature that follows my researches and readings about Cinema, Directors, Actors, technique that help me to document properly my interventions on this blog. This light up is also a way to enlighten some titles that may interest you. Slapstick, Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels read more

Note: this review is a translation of my original review of the movie I've seen in 2009. Since it was one of my first long reviews I've decided to translate it for everyone's benefit. I will do series of re-edits for the films that actually were reviewed in French in the first moments of this b read more

With the upcoming of the 3rd Edition of his Italian Horror Blog-A-Thon at Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies, Kevin J. Olson has written one of the most complete and documented pieces I had to read lately about Italian Horror Films. A subgenre I don’t know much about but will eventually explore. Havin read more

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) Five friends visiting their grandpa's old house are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. On a trip in Texas to find childhood memories first at the grave of their grandfather and the read more

The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks, 1951) Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost. The Thing From Another World was the first directorial effort of editor Christian Nyby and it was produced read more

As I am writing those lines, I’m halfway through Keaton’s memoirs titled Slapstick. In this anecdotic autobiography we learn how he came into show business with his family’s vaudeville and how he entered in the filmmaking business.   The most interesting part is to discove read more

Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets. Shot in widescreen and used with great creativity, John CarpenterR read more

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer. Takashi Shimura is an actor I’ve already bragged about in my recent review of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Well, be prepared to read some more in this new rev read more

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925) A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries. By 7 p.m. Today. Being the last Buster Keaton film on my Pantheon Director feature, Seven Chances is a race against the clock that displays a frenetic chase that its star is better known to be recognized read more

 Just like Linus, you can learn the real meaning of Thanksgiving. In fact this is the canadian one. I know all you Americans have a real holiday with Turkey, Football, and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles later this year in November. But here, in Québec we have a holiday, so no work. But there' read more