Ghosts of Mars is another old-school outing bearing many characteristics familiar from Carpenters' early work,…
Author: Jesse Cataldo
Oeuvre: Carpenter: Village of the Damned
Village of the Damned definitively disappears into unremarkable ‘90s thriller territory, functioning as yet another…
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Invasion U.S.A.
Invasion U.S.A. is a gaudy Golan-Globus shlock-fest that’s short on narrative coherence but suffused with…
Oeuvre: Carpenter: Memoirs of an Invisible Man
A famously hands-on auteur was ultimately cowed by his star’s predominating power over the project.
Rediscover: Murderers Among Us
Grief, shame and guilt are states of being that in such cases remain personal but…
Transit
Petzold’s assured, subtle direction gradually asserts Transit as a scintillating story of shuffled identities which…
Oeuvre: Carpenter: Someone’s Watching Me!
One of Carpenter’s most elusive, underseen works.
Buffalo Boys
Buffalo Boys retains the Western's essential moral message while broadening its reach.
From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Mahabharat
In late August 2018, as yet another bizarre bubble simmered to the top of the…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
These two sardonic moralists succeed in inhabiting each extreme in equal proportion, blending and reshaping…