Christopher Saunders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 666 )

• Villa Rides

  

  (1968) is one of those oddball movies that, by all rights, should be good but manages to botch almost ever. Sam Peckinpah wrote the script during his... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2026 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blog Is Dead?

  Welcome to 2026. I've been quietly blogging for the past few months, largely just so I have a creative outlet outside of work. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2026 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Escape from Alcatraz

  

  Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood collaborated one last time on Escape from Alcatraz (1979). This sparse but effective prison drama plays to both men's strengths;... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2026 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hang 'Em High

  

  (1968) marked Clint Eastwood's triumphant return to Hollywood: after becoming an international star with the Dollars Trilogy, he proved that his overseas succes... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pale Rider

  

  Clint Eastwood went nearly a decade between The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and his next Western, Pale Rider (1985). Clint seemed genuinely tired of the genre... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie

  

  If you're watching The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022), is there any chance you don't already know The Quintessential Quintuplets? Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Eiger Sanction

  

  For many moviegoers, it's often difficult to separate Clint Eastwood's undoubted skill as a filmmaker and charisma as a star with the sometimes ugly message of... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Touch of Satan

  

  A lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies contain worthy concepts sabotaged by low budget or poor execution - with a little effort, they could have edged int... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Halloween II (1981)

  

  The phenomenal success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) opened the floodgates, birthing the modern slasher movie. While Carpenter's film has never been a... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Bermuda Triangle (1978)

  

  The Bermuda Triangle - that area in the South Atlantic where ships, planes and people mysteriously vanish, according to legend - enjoyed its heyday in the... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Human Factor (1979)

  

  Otto Preminger's career took a strange downfall, from stylish noirs like Laura to large-scale dramas like Anatomy of a Murder to the notorious flops Skidoo and... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2025 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Graveyard Shift

  

  (1990) is one of the interminable list of B-grade Stephen King adaptations from the '90s. Like The Mangler, it's based on a story from Night Shift which is... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Mangler

  

  There was a time where Stephen King's every coke-fueled brain fart inspired a movie. His serviceable short story "The Mangler" was originally optioned as part o... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Dark (1979)

  

  The '70s were a particularly bad time for low budget horror, as filmmakers abandoned the goofy charm of the '50s B cycle for excess gore, grime and general... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Island Earth

  

  One of the iconic titles in '50s science fiction, This Island Earth (1955) is something of a puzzler. Hailed by some as a masterpiece and others as... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oppenheimer

  

  Christopher Nolan is one of the most important and successful filmmakers of the past two decades, yet I've never been a fan. While I respect his talent and... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Frogs

  

  The '70s were perhaps the best decade for truly mad horror movie premises, with filmmakers trying to find menace in the mundane and madness in the everyday. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Day of the Locust

  

  John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust (1975) has alienated audiences and polarized critics for a half-century; even today, reviewers are split labeling it... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• State of the Blog?

  

  Well, I'd more or less ended Nothing is Written until earlier this year, when I posted a couple of quick reviews of crappy horror movies in the summer and more... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Fall of the Roman Empire

  

  For a few years in the early '60s, Samuel Bronston ran a private moviemaking empire in Spain, spending the GDP of a small nation to produce big historical epics... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES