Before I share my Top Ten of 2025, I thought it might be fun to dish out my least favorite experiences watching movies this year. Like the agonizing aches and fever of bedridden flu, bad movies do exist, and they can make you just as sick. You wonder what else you could have done with... Continue Reading →
Reely Bernie Horror Fest: Longlegs (2024)
I’m late to the party with this one, but in hindsight, staying home would’ve been the better choice. Longlegs offers little beyond a thin plot: a young, inexperienced female FBI agent—clearly echoing Silence of the Lambs—is on the trail of a bizarre serial killer. That’s the whole premise. If you took every horror gimmick imaginable—serial killers, possessed... Continue Reading →
“Sinners” bites off more than it can chew
Is it a mystical origin story about the Delta Blues a la Robert Johnson selling his soul at a crossroads? Unfortunately, no. How about a diabolical feud between African American spirituals and Irish folksongs and their evolutionary ties to the Devil? Nope. Think From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) disguised in Jim Crow Mississippi—45 minutes of promising setup... Continue Reading →