Articles by Mike Long

The Skulls

October 16, 2000 // 0 Comments

While I’m sure that there are plenty of original film ideas floating around Hollywood, we rarely see any of them make it to the screen. Let’s face it, Hollywood was into recycling long before the rest of us caught on. A recent trend has been to take a [...]

Bad Moon

October 16, 2000 // 0 Comments

While many critics dismissed ’Bad Moon’ as a bad moovie, this werewolf picture definitely deserves another look. While it certainly won’t change your life, it’s an above-average horror film. ’Bad Moon’ focuses on single-mom Janet (Mariel [...]

Crazy Love

October 13, 2000 // 0 Comments

Any good adult film should contain a certainly fantasy element. No matter how "realistic" the story tries to be, the movie should involve some aspects that are totally unrealistic, but reflect what a healthy sexual fantasy would be like. In this [...]

Pitch Black

October 13, 2000 // 0 Comments

It’s always exciting to see a filmmaker really come into their own and with "Pitch Black", writer/director David Twohy achieves that point. After having worked as a writer on good films such as "The Fugitive" and bad films such as [...]

Witchouse: Blood Coven

October 12, 2000 // 0 Comments

Full Moon has just unveiled its first ’Lunar Edition, ’ their new Special Edition line of DVDs. If ’Witchouse: Blood Coven’ is any example of what we can expect from future entries into this series, then Charles Band and Co. may have created a new [...]

Hideaway

October 12, 2000 // 0 Comments

Unlike Stephen King, best-selling horror-supsense novelist Dean R. Koontz hasn’t been very fortunate when it comes to film adaptations of his books. The movies have either been total trash such as "Phantoms" (Koontz’s best novel) and the [...]

Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except

October 11, 2000 // 0 Comments

As someone who is much more interested in the work of directors and screenwriters, I rarely watch a movie based solely on the actors involved. But this is a movie that you must see because of the work of one actor. That actor’s name is Sam Raimi. Yes, [...]

The Nightmare Before Christmas

October 10, 2000 // 0 Comments

In our high-tech world, it is very easy for things to become obsolete. Your computer, appliances, home-theater system may be the cutting edge of technology one day, and totally incompatible the next. The same goes for DVDs as well. There is a long history [...]

But I’m A Cheerleader

October 9, 2000 // 0 Comments

’But I’m a Cheerleader’ is one of those films that has a funny and clever central idea that would’ve made a great ’Saturday Night Live’ skit or a nice short film, but doesn’t work as a full-length feature. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, a [...]

Lucinda’s Spell

October 6, 2000 // 0 Comments

Recently, we’ve reached a point where there don’t seem to be many true independent films anymore. Independent films are so vogue that they play at the local multiplex and scarf up awards right and left. And I know that there is an over-generalization [...]
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