Oscars 2024 – Best Animated Feature

On March 10, the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will take place, honoring what many consider to be the best films of 2023. As a movie nerd, I make it a point to see as many of these movies as I possibly can. Unfortunately, I'm still behind on many of the bigger titles (Poor Things, Killers …

Oscars 2024 – Best Documentary Short Film

On March 10, the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will take place, honoring what many consider to be the best films of 2023. As a movie nerd, I make it a point to see as many of these movies as I possibly can. Unfortunately, I'm still behind on many of the bigger titles (Poor Things, Killers …

Oscars 2024 – Best Animated Short Film

On March 10, the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will take place, honoring what many consider to be the best films of 2023. As a movie nerd, I make it a point to see as many of these movies as I possibly can. Unfortunately, I'm still behind on many of the bigger titles (Poor Things, Killers …

Licorice Pizza: Choking it down

On Tuesday, the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards will be announced. If they're anything at all like the Golden Globes awards this past January, among the films with the most nominations will be the latest from director P.T. Anderson, Licorice Pizza. It received nominations for both of its leads, Cooper Hoffman (son of the …

Santa Sangre (1989) & Impetigore (2019)

Despite my self-proclaimed status as a movie nerd, it was only today that I saw my first film by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I've never seen El Topo or The Holy Mountain. I've also never seen Jodorowsky's Dune, where the director shares how he would have adapted the Frank Herbert Novel that received a second adaptation this …

Pumpkinhead (1988) & Night of the Demons (1988)

I think I first encountered Pumpkinhead on the Sci-Fi channel. Most cable channels had a handful of movies that they liked to show again and again, and I'm convinced that I saw commercials for the movie several times during my Saturday morning Mystery Science Theater. I remember being both extremely curious and apprehensive at the …

House (1986) & Saint Maud (2019)

Not all of these pairings are going to make sense. Sometimes it's just two movies I want to see. While I've made no secret about my distaste for comedy horror, it only recently dawned on me that most of these horror comedies are from the 1980's. Maybe that's a major part of the problem. Maybe …

Seven (1995) & Zodiac (2007)

Last year, director David Fincher released his eleventh feature film Mank to Netflix. The film would receive a whopping 10 Academy Award nominations, though it would only win for Cinematography and Production Design. It was his third nomination for Best Director, and I don't doubt that he will be winning sometime in the next 10 …

The Dead Zone (1983) & The Fly (1986)

Though I’m not a fan of Scanners or Cronenberg’s output from the 1970s, his next four films would be excellent. Starting in 1983, he would cement his status as one of the 1980s’ most impressive horror directors. Stay tuned.My review of Scanners (1980) Here's where stuff really gets good. In 1983, Cronenberg would actually have …

Night of the Comet (1984) & Chopping Mall (1986)

Horror loves malls. Since Dawn of the Dead and up to Fear Street 1994, the shopping mall has been a prime location for tales of survival, typically from American filmmakers. The most simple read of this is how central capitalism is to the American experience. There's no more American meeting place than the complex full …