Daily Archives: March 8, 2024

Classic Film Review: Re-encountering “Forbidden Planet” (1956)

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Dated, comically corny but heavy-handed, pretty and production-designed to death but oh-so-sound-stagey, “Forbidden Planet” remains a touchstone film in the science fiction canon almost in spite of itself. A lot of its cachet relates to the Cold War zeitgeist that … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Motel Clerk finds “Night Shift” perils

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

Short but slow, occasionally chilling but never quite scary, “Night Shift” is a straight-up genre thriller that embraces that most ancient and hallowed of horror tropes, “A lone woman menaced in the dark of night.” Poor pacing dooms this debut … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Code 8” merited a sequel? Really? “Part II” it is

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Roger Moore

“Code 8” was an “X-Men on a Budget” thriller, reasonably well cast, with hunky mutants (not called “mutants”) and decent taser-finger effects. But it was an ungainly lump of a movie, clumsily trying to switch between criminal mutants, who are … Continue reading →

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