‘Bride of Chucky’ (1998) successfully hitches to post-‘Scream’ era
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (Movie review): Mancini and a game cast find the perfect horror-comedy balance in the saga’s fourth installment.
Author: John Hansen
‘Bride of Chucky’ (1998) successfully hitches to post-‘Scream’ era
‘Agatha Christie’s Marple’ Season 5 (2010-11) offers something old, something new
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): A Miss Marple short story finally gets adapted, along with two non-Marple novels and one of her standout novels.
Chucky becomes clunky in dour, timid ‘Child’s Play 3’ (1991)
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (Movie review): Though the production values remain high, the storytelling discipline is shoddy in the third Chucky tale.
‘In Cold Blood’ gets colder for Brooks’ 1967 film adaptation
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): In a film that pries into the nature of evil, it’s the lack of a good answer that’s most disturbing.
Start of this ‘Monster’ (1995) epic hints at a masterpiece
Book club book report: I wade into the world of manga with the beginning of a mood-drenched, character-heavy saga from Naoki Urasawa.
Dourif, Mancini lean into the premise for ‘Child’s Play 2’ (1990)
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (Movie review): The actor and saga creator Don Mancini realize what they have here — a vicious killer trapped in a doll’s body – and they fully play it up.
‘Buffy: The Bewitching Hour’ (2023) a treat for Tara fans
‘Buffy’ flashback (Book review): Ashley Poston goes back to Season 3 for a tricky novel about what Tara was doing in her senior year of high school.
Handoff to McKenzie is intriguing – if not exactly smooth – in ‘Marple’ Season 4 (2009)
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): Though Marple’s personality changes, she still fits the elderly sleuth’s flexible template in four engaging episodes.
‘Child’s Play’ (1988) delightfully codifies killer-doll subgenre
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (Movie review): Evil toys go mainstream as Chucky joins the pantheon of Eighties slasher icons.
Martial arts, laser guns and confusing rules mix in ‘Timecop’ (1994)
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): The ambition to be Van Damme’s “Terminator” outstrips the execution, but you gotta admire the movie’s guts.