Retro Reviews – Screen Mayhem

Let Maggie be a Runaway Bride (1999), You Cowards – Retro Review

I am a huge Julia Roberts fan, as of this year to be exact. All of her characters in the 90s and early 2000s are...

Black Christmas (1974) is a frightening masterpiece of a slasher, if you could really call it one. Though it holds the conventions of a slasher,...

Right off the bat, I would like to apologize to myself for waiting this long to watch Fargo (1996). A Coen Brothers Classic for a...

I watched Blade Runner with the same friend who helped me tackle Rosemary’s Baby and, for the first hour or so, we thought we were...

December 22, 2020

1987’s Hiding Out is an aptly named film from where I sit because the movie had successfully been hiding out from me for 30+ years...

What is a ghost? This is what Guillermo del Toro asks us in The Devil’s Backbone (2001). While the questions that follow are still up...

The last time I smiled this much during a romantic comedy was the first time I saw To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and I...

November 24, 2020

Being raised Catholic and attending Catholic grade school it was made abundantly clear to me that if I was a good boy and followed The...

Guillermo del Toro is the master of dark fantasy and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is no exception. If you are like me and did not realize...

Growing up in the 1980’s, the Friday the 13th movies were my gateway into the world of R rated horror films. To this day, the...