Dragon Fighter (2003) – There used to be some standards around Aliens ripoffs, didn’t there? Nope. In this one, Dean Cain and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of star in a pseudo-government-funded cloning facility deep underground where the project manager is tired of mice and puppies and instead clones… a dragon. Yup. One…

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…