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The Terror
MOVIE #1,888 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.14.24 Dante spent a career making top-notch films inspired by the golden age of B-movies and now — in his mo...
Burying the Ex
MOVIE #1,887 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.14.24 Following a six-year gap, Dante returned to the world of feature films with his first straight-up horr...
The Hole
MOVIE #1,886 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.14.24 Widely considered the last good (or pretty good) Joe Dante movie, Warner Brothers’ bid to bring ba...
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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Route 666
MOVIE #1,885 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.14.24 I didn’t quite know what to expect when the first three actors on-screen were David Cross, Jay...
Small Soldiers
MOVIE #1,904 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 In stark contrast to the inspired brilliance of The Second Civil War , you can sense Dante's det...
The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
MOVIE #1,903 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 I was hoping to find one true hidden gem among the fairly extensive non-theatrical feature por...
The Second Civil War
MOVIE #1,902 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 On this final day of my week of Joe Dante, we will be looking at his three feature-length made-for...
Runaway Daughters
MOVIE #1,884 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.14.24 This might be the smartest Joe Dante film yet. A film he said got made on a fluke (“The comp...
Matinee
MOVIE #1,883 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 08.13.24 I already wrote about my near bout with hypothermia for my Gremlins review and how I didn’t ...
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
MOVIE #1,882 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.13.24 This is another one I remember watching at a young age and haven't seen again since. But ...
The 'Burbs
MOVIE #1,880 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.13.24 I was really looking forward to this: one I loved as a kid but haven't seen in ages. I li...
Innerspace
MOVIE #1,895 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.16.24 Dante’s second short film for Amazing Stories has to be one of the most famous episodes from ...
MOVIE #1,880 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.13.24 Another, less heralded film that I've still inexplicably never seen. This Gremlins follo...
Explorers
MOVIE #1,879 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 08.13.24 This is the film that set off Joe Dante week. I had been looking for a weekend to get out to ...
Gremlins
MOVIE #1,877 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.12.24 This isn't really an official Dante film (it was directed by his Hollywood Boulevard partne...
Rock 'n' Roll High School
MOVIE #1,876 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.12.24 Dante’s follow-up to Hollywood Boulevard , a B-movie satire, is an actual B-movie: an ‘animals att...