Fortress (1992)

Fortress (1992) is one of those movies from my youth that I never sat through from start to finish, but feel like I absorbed through osmosis. It was always on TV, and flipping between channels, I usually caught key scenes. Much like Escape From Absolom and Wedlock, Fortress feels like the moderately budgeted children of […]

Body Snatchers (1993)

Merging my horror movie viewing in the lead up to Halloween with my on-going retrospective of director Abel Ferrara’s filmography this year, I thought I would revisit Body Snatchers (1993), his sci-fi horror film for Warner Brothers. If it wasn’t for the later box office bomb of the Nicole Kidman starring The Invasion, this was […]

Robot Jox (1989)

Before Pacific Rim, before CGI, there was Robot Jox (1989). I remember seeing the ad for this on a lot of video rentals as a kid and thinking it looked like the coolest movie ever. Finally watching it now, I marvel at the old school special effects, stop motion puppets and clunky plastic sets to […]