Aug

6

Weird Weather Machine Movies: Superstorm vs. Killer Wave

August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Okay… Discovery Channel and Ion TV (which apparently is the new name for PAX TV) pit two movies against each other on a Sunday night, that are both products of our free-floating anxiety about… just about everything.
Discovery’s Superstorm had Tom Sizemore and Chris Potter (who somehow, years ago, juggled cop roles on TV landmarks Kung […]

Aug

6

Trog: Joan Crawford, with a Whimper

August 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

Two months, and we shift one letter– from Troy to Trog. I could only take about ten minutes of this one. My first thought: “My God… did 2001 and Planet of the Apes inspire this fourth-rate retread? Were they ready to greenlight just about anything with a monkey in it?”
This before I checked IMDB and […]