Film Thoughts

Welcome to the film-related musings, complaints, and comments of Zack Clopton, an amateur film-critic, scholar, and screenwriter. Featured here are Director's Report Cards, essays, and other reviews. Enjoy!

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Director Report Card: Joe Dante (1997)

13. The Second Civil War On the surface, most of Joe Dante's films do not seem especially political. Sure, you can read into the wa...

RECENT WATCHES: The Howling: New Moon Rising (1994)

From any sort of narrative perspective, most of the “Howling” films are unrelated to each other. Aside from a token attempt to link “Your...

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Director Report Card: Joe Dante (1994)

12. Runaway Daughters Not that long ago , I was talking about the “Rebel Highway” series of TV movies. For those that need a refresher...

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Director Report Card: Tim Burton (2019)

19. Dumbo Look, I'm a big fan of the Disney Animated Features and I'm obviously fond of big budget, special effects filled spec...

Director Report Card: Joe Dante (1993)

11. Matinee It might seem like Joe Dante slowed down in the nineties. One might assume that few of his post-”Gremlins” films replicatin...

Monday, April 22, 2019

RECENT WATCHES: Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)

The “Howling” series would continue to haunt video stores into the nineties. Despite the serious lack of werewolf action in the last two ...

Director Report Card: Joe Dante (1990)

10. Gremlins 2: The New Batch Warner Brothers really wanted to make a sequel to “Gremlins.” This is understandable, as the original was...

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