(http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/Godzilla-art-crop.JPG) Godzilla has stormed into theatres, and he's too big to fit into one podcast! That's right: this week the Cinefantastique Spotlight will be presented in two parts. The first feat

I for one welcome our crustacean overlords. Even if you've never seen ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, you probably still know it by heart. It is the perfect model of the drive-in B-movie, a sublime mix of papier-mache creatures, suggestive sexuality, and

Okay, put away THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. That film has already caused so much pain (mostly from brain-strain as one struggles to figure out how such a major project could go so wrong), that it doesn't really deserve any more consideration. Let's focus i

To be perfectly blunt about it, big studio blockbuster releases typically don't fail as spectacularly as THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. Oh they can be bad, but a comforting buffer of test screenings, focus groups, top-level executive intervention, and direct

(http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/InYourEyes-Deadbeat-Devil-Doll-comp.JPG) Dossier Fantastique Volume 5, Number 17.2 opens to reveal capsule comments for IN YOUR EYES and DEADBEAT. The former is a Direct-to-Video film written and produ

A professor and his students perform experiments on a young subject, trying to prove that the paranormal experiences she claims to undergo are actually psychologically motivated. But the more they delve into the case, the more it seems that what's going

There has, sadly, been a tragic loss to the WBAI radio family. Long-time anchorman and host Robert Knight passed away over the weekend, and so HOUR OF THE WOLF is being pre-empted this week for a special tribute to the man. This kind of thing will happe

(http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/A-Haunted-House-2-Poster-comp.JPG) This week, the Dossier Fantastique Podcast opens to reveal the disappointing details regarding A HAUNTED HOUSE 2, the sequel-spoof of everything from PARANORMAL ACTIV

It's some kind of irony that the experience of watching a film called TRANSCENDENCE is far from transcendent. Not that director Wally Pfister doesn't try: The story of a scientist working in A.I. research (Johnny Depp) who has his own consciousness tran

"I reeeeeally want you to review UNDER THE SKIN for HOUR OF THE WOLF," Jim Freund said to me a couple of weeks ago. That was good, because I reeeeeeally wanted to review UNDER THE SKIN, but constraints -- both on time and finances -- meant that I needed