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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – Doubles down on what characterized the first movie, both good and bad. The humor and creative uses of shrinking/enlarging are played up, and the science gets even stupider. The “quantum zone” is even more ridiculous than last time: There’s not just the “how to people see if they’re smaller…

Triangle (2009) – One of the better “rubber reality” mind-bender movies I’ve seen.  When a bunch of friends and acquaintances on a sailboat encounter a freak electrical storm, they’re left adrift until they run across a cruise ship — one that seems antique and empty. But is it?  When time starts looping on itself and…

Long-time readers know about our family tradition: On the Friday before Halloween, I start throwing monster movies in the like onto the screen in front of the kids, and I don’t stop until we all give up and go to bed. The Mummy (1932) – Despite the poster images, there’s very little running time with…

Panic in Bangkok (aka Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117) (1964) – Adequate but forgettable euro-spy outing, with Kerwin Mathews (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)) as the only English-speaking cast member and everyone else dubbed from French.  Without the charm through which we see James Bond’s behavior — maybe it’s just the British who…

Creepozoids (1987) – I suppose I shouldn’t insult a $75,000 monster movie made for Charles Band’s Empire Films (back when you had to shoot to use most of that money to shoot on film, not digital video), especially when trimming the budget just a little resulted in utter crap that same year like Mutant Hunt…