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With the speed and sometimes reckless abandon Hollywood typically cranks out remakes at, it is a significant surprise that it has taken roughly 29 years for the Adrian Lyne directed Jacob’s Ladder to get a treatment for the 21st century. That treatment is coming February 2019, which makes it a good time in the interim […]
Read More What to Watch: Descending the Rungs in Jacob’s Ladder (1990)You know what they say about decades? A new one doesn’t begin until the final number in a year ends with a “1.” November 1990 saw the sequel to the super-popular Predator in Predator 2. With no Arnie, Carl Weathers, Jesse “The Body” Ventura, Shane Black, or epic handshake returning, the viewing populace seemed to […]
Read More What to Watch: Preying on L.A. in Predator 2 (1990)We really are in a “Golden Age of Horror.” The last four to seven years have seen the genre turn in films that double as great genre pieces, but sometimes, transcending their genre and crossing over into others. But, it wasn’t all that long ago that scary movies were in a bit of a […]
Read More What to Watch: The Strangers (2008)