Jason Rugaard

Mimic (1997) – Review

November 15, 2018November 13, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Alexander Goodwin, Charles S Dutton, F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini, guillermo del toro, Jeremy Northam, josh brolin, Mimic, MIra Sorvino

Mimic doesn’t always make a lot of sense, but it’s propped up by an intriguing premise and a strong visual

Action Drama Reviews

Walker (1987) – Review

November 14, 2018November 13, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1987, ed harris, Marlee Matlin, Miguel Sandoval, Peter Boyle, René Auberjonois, Richard Masur, Walker

Alex Cox’s Walker is one of the most peculiar films to have been released by a major studio during the

Action Reviews

Most Wanted (1997) – Review

November 12, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, David Hogan, Eric Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Jon Voight, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Most Wanted, Paul Sorvino, Robert Culp, Simon Baker Denny, wolfgang bodison

Most Wanted is star Keenen Ivory Wayans’s bid for action hero status. After, coming off The Glimmer Man in a

Comedy Horror Reviews

Bordello of Blood (1996) – Review

November 10, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1996, Angie Everhart, Bordello of Blood, Chris Sarandon, corey feldman, Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Gilbert Adler, william sadler

The Tales from the Crypt television series was a seminal and extremely entertaining horror show with high doses of comedy

Horror Reviews

An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) – Review

October 30, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, An American Werewolf in Paris, Anthony Waller, Julie Bowen, Julie Delpy, Phil Buckman, Pierre Cosso, Thierry Lhermitte, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Novembre, Vince Vieluf

An American Werewolf in Paris is the long-gestating follow-up to John Landis’ American Werewolf in London. Even though the female

Horror Reviews

The Astronaut’s Wife (1999) – Review

October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1999, charlize theron, Clea DuVall, Joe Morton, Johnny Depp, Rand Ravich, The Astronaut's Wife

The Astronaut’s Wife is the artistic, intelligent version of Species II. Both films share similar plot elements but go about

Horror Reviews

The Haunting (1999) – Review

October 29, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1999, catherine zeta-jones, Jan de Bont, liam neeson, Lili Taylor, owen wilson, The Haunting

The Haunting is akin to the kind of docile horror films that were commonplace before John Carpenter’s Halloween changed the

Drama Horror Reviews

Fallen (1998) – Review

October 29, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland, Elias Koteas, Embeth Davidtz, Fallen, Gregory Hoblit, James Gandolfini, John Goodman

There is a compelling 90-minute story in the jumbled mix of the 124 minutes running time of Fallen. This is

Action Reviews

The Scorpion King: Book of Souls (2018) – Review

October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments Don Michael Paul

The fifth installment of the unlikely Scorpion King franchise is a low-brow straight-to-DVD dud that is so directive that I

Horror Reviews

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) – Review

October 24, 2018 Jason Rugaard 1 Comment 1999, Amy Irving, Dylan Bruno, Emily Bergl, J. Smith-Cameron, Jason London, Katt Shea, mena suvari, The Rage: Carrie 2

I never fell under the spell of Brian DePalma’s 1976 shocker, Carrie. Some list it up there with The Exorcist

Horror Reviews SciFi

Species II (1998) – Review

October 21, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Justin Lazard, Marg Helgenberger, michael madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Peter Medak, Species II

Species was an enjoyable variation on the Alien genre. The follow-up, Species II, is a cheap, awful film with a

Horror Reviews

Bad Moon (1996) – Review

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1996, Bad Moon, Eric Red, Ken Pogue, Mariel Hemingway, Mason Gamble, michael pare

Bad Moon is a bad movie. One that will have you howling with laughter if you can sustain the boredom

Action Horror Reviews SciFi

Alien Predator (2018) – Review

September 10, 2018September 14, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018

The traditional stars rating value for grading movies goes right out the window when it comes to the Asylum’s “Mockbusters.”

Comedy Reviews

Action Point (2018) – Review

August 29, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018, Action Point, Chris Pontius, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, johnny knoxville, Matt Schulze, Tim Kirkby

I’d be anything less than honest in reporting that Action Point made me laugh out loud a half-dozen times. I’ll

Comedy Reviews

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) – Review

August 26, 2018August 29, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018, amanda seyfried, Andy Garcia, Cher, Christine Baranski, Colin Firth, Dominic Cooper, Julie Walters, Lily James, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, meryl streep, Ol Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård

There is a bait and switch element to the Mama Mia! sequel that seems to split audiences into two camps.

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