Articles by Michael Pflug
Time And Tide
Tsui Hark is surely one of the finest directors to come out of the frenetic world of Hong Kong cinema. While his foray into Hollywood action films toward the end of the 1990s met with the same grisly fate as most Jean-Claude Van Damme star vehicles, the [...]
The Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein
When James Whales’s "Frankenstein" lit up the box office in 1931 it didn’t take a mad genius to figure out that Universal would soon start churning out sequels to capitalize on the popularity of everyone’s favorite platform-shoed monster. [...]
The Mummy’s Ghost / The Mummy’s Curse
It seems that successful horror films always generate multiple sequels and this fact was just as true back in the 1940s as it is today. 1932’s ’The Mummy’ was one of Universal’s great moneymakers and firmly established the linen-wrapped rambler as [...]
My Man Godfrey
The Great Depression. Not a time one would generally associate with laugh out loud humor but Hollywood has an odd tendency to release great comedy films during times of national hardship and struggle. Poking fun at the very real circumstances of the time [...]
Wayne’s World
Following in the long line of movies based on "Saturday Night Live" skits, "Wayne’s World" arrived in theaters in 1992 and was an immediate hit. While most films to come out of the "SNL" stable have been forgettable, if not [...]
The Saint: Set 1
If you hear the title "The Saint" and images of Val Kilmer immediately spring to mind then you owe it to yourself to experience the real Saint and expunge the memories of that awful 1997 theatrical remake from your mind. Simon Templar (Roger [...]
V: The Original Miniseries
In early 1983 posters began appearing across the country advertising an upcoming television special. Some of these were then systematically defaced with large red spray-painted letter "V"s. All this was done to build anticipation for NBC’s new [...]
Extreme Limits
’Extreme Limits’ is the latest direct-to-video action flick by the undisputed master of that genre, director Jay Andrews (Jim Wynorski). I have a high tolerance for bad films and a great appreciation for well-executed camp but this one tried even my [...]