MOVIE #1,892 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.15.24 Chronologically, this is the most recent Dante effort to date in any medium. At almost two hours l...
Nightmare Cinema
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 #1,906 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 And so we close out these Seven Days of Dante with arguably the strangest work of his career, fitting...
Splatter
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 #1,900 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 When this starts, it appears to be operating in the overtly political/satirical lane of Dante’s firs...
The Screwfly Solution
MOVIE #1,891 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.15.24 After a nearly two decade gap, Joe Dante returned to the world of theatrical release anthology films...
Trapped Ashes
MOVIE #1,899 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 Dante made two short features for the much better known Showtime series Masters of Horrors (some of...
Homecoming
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
MOVIE #1,905 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 This short film starring Christopher Lloyd was part of a short-lived immersive attraction at vario...
Haunted Lighthouse
MOVIE #1,898 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 Dante's second short for the anthology series Night Visions is even less inspired than his first. B...
The Occupant
MOVIE #1,897 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.17.24 Like he did in the 80s, Joe Dante delivered multiple episodes for horror-oriented anthology TV shows i...
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 #1,901 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.24 I believe this is the first amusement park pre-ride film I’ve ever reviewed at the site. This is u...
The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror Pre Show Film
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 #1,896 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.16.24 This was easily the biggest commitment I made during this week of A-Z Joe Dante viewing: I watched...
Eerie, Indiana
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 ...