Charm, gumption and a Yippee-ki-yay motherf*cker vaulted Die Hard into everyone’s favorite Christmas classics list. Crackerjack, by contrast, will do the opposite. Die Hard on a mountain, this Canadian cheapie also has German baddies, and Christopher Plummer subbing Zs for Th’s as a Teutonic villain who favors starch collars and ugly racial politics as heContinue reading “Crackerjack”
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Man’s Best Friend
The animal attack film is the most enduring horror sub-genre, as straight-ahead slashers fall in and out of fancy. Man’s Best Friend is an overlooked 90s entry, in a time when even natural horrors looked like they were losing steam. Put out by New Line Cinema, “the house that Freddy built,” this one is aContinue reading “Man’s Best Friend”
